US cattle markets shaken by suspect Canada mad cow

[donsu]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060413/bs_nm/madcow_cattle_markets_dc;_ylt=AkWbHnk6FX2Fl5btNgL4nnIWIr0F;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA

A possible new case of mad cow disease in Canada rattled the U.S. cattle markets on Thursday because the animal in question was born after a 1997 feed ban that was enacted to prevent the disease.

Investors fretted that the discovery, which could be the fifth native-born case of the brain-wasting bovine spongiform encephalopathy in Canada, could shake consumer confidence in the $200 billion U.S. beef and cattle production industry.

Canadian officials said earlier Thursday that the suspected case was discovered in a 6-year-old Holstein dairy cow in British Columbia which did not enter the human food chain. Final test results are expected on Sunday.

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U.S. consumers have continued to buy beef despite three mad cow cases in the United States and four previously confirmed cases in Canada.

"So far domestic demand has not shrunk due to the publicity of mad cow. As we go forward, will that attitude change? I think you are always concerned," said Don Roose, analyst with U.S. Commodities Inc.
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go ahead, take your chances, eat that beef

[SoftUnderbelly]

1. ah mad cow disease!

i remember when they took burgers off the menu at highschool in the mid 90s because of it, i was furious! i always thought it was quite funny when in the early 90s the british health minister john selwyn gummer wanted to show british beef was safe to eat so he... made his young daughter eat a beef burger in front of reporters. several years later we have the first reports of CJD. "thanks dad"

[converted_democrat]

2. One of my SO's best friends raises hundreds of heads of cattle, and we

get all of our beef products from him.. I really like beef, and I don't want to give it up just yet.. I'm just lucky we "know" that what we eat is safe.. If he ever stops raising them I don't know what we'll do..

[ecoalex]

3. Buy grass fed beef, not feed lot finished beef some finishing feeds

still contain banned beef proteins. The bastards keep on feeding meat to cattle, even tho it's illegal.