Well said Timmer. What we find ironic up here is that when our case was
detected according to the almighty US Ag Dept it was the end of the world.
Now that a case has been found on US soil it's "nothing to worry about"...
I hate to say it but karma has a way of coming back and biting one in the
butt. Every other world market has been reopened to Canadian beef *except*
the US, all thanks to the extensive lobbying on Capital Hill of the US
Cattlemens Assoc. Thanks to that lobbying the US cattle industry has been
enjoying almost record high prices at the expense of Canadian cattlemen who
are still facing loosing everything...
For those who don't know the facts millions of head of US born beef are
shipped into Canada as "feeders" to be fattened up on cheap Canadian wheat.
They are then either shipped back to the US for slaughter or slaughtered
here and shipped back as carcasses....
Janet
"T" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Ah well, its like the cow in Canada.. When everyone went nuts to avoid
Canadian Beef, it was barely noted that cow originally came from a US
producer, most likely where it originally contracted the BSE... How ironic
is it when the shoe is on the other foot.??.. I suspect the beef market in
the US is going to be in some trouble for the next year or so.
Timmer...
wrote in message
...
There is good reason to be cautious Jan. Prions (infectious proteins)
have been
shown to infect muscles like the tongue thru the nervous tissue
(http://www.nature.com/nsu/021230/021230-5.html). Muscles are loaded
with
nerves.
But more important is what is NOT KNOWN. For instance, a meat packer in
England got
the human form of BSE even tho he was a vegetarian. They think it was
from handling
the meat.
Most puzzling of all is the epidemic of "mad deer" in Wisconsin and
other
states.
Evidently wild game farms were allowed to feed recycled meat products to
their game
farm deer. These deer jumped the fence and mixed with the wild deer
population and
it spread. SPREAD???!!!! nobody seems to have a handle on how it
spread
from deer
to deer in the wild, altho wild deer could have been jumping into the
farm
and eating
contaminated feed. We do know prion disease has been present in wild
Elk
for a long
time.
http://www.wisc.edu/foodsafety/consu...sheets/BSE.htm
suggests that prions can be spread by blood. And you are correct,
normal
cooking
temps dont kill it, nor does freezing. Ingrid
~ jan JJsPond.us wrote:
We've been getting some interesting info in our local paper regarding
new
machinery called Advance Meat Recovery Systems. This scrapes meat off
very
close to the bone and supposedly can pick up some brain or spinal
column
tissue where the prions of (BSE) Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy hangs
out. True, it's not in the muscle meat, but hamburger is definitely
suspect
w/hot dogs being more so. Heat doesn't kill it.... at least not the
heat
temps we cook at.
They say the risk is low, but who wants to be that or 1 person? I'm not
scared enough to toss the meat I have in the freezer purchased prior to
Daisy going thru the system, but I'm not eating it, or any beef, till I
get
more answers. ~ jan
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:54:19 -0600, "Tom La Bron"
wrote:
Of course, you must know that the majority of this scare is media
driven.
Mad Cow Disease (MCD) is transmitted trough nerve tissue and unless
you
are
eating raw meat you won't get MCD. Plus there are no known cases of
anyone,
I repeat, anyone getting MCD from Muscle tissue, like hamburger,
steaks,
etc.
Now if you are into eating Cow Brains in your scramble eggs then you
may
be
at risk.
Tom L.L.
"~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message
. ..
Yup, and jj was in the now infamous Moses Lake, her home town, for
Christmas.
The internet is so nice though, I was able to go right to a website
with
the phone #s of the meat company. They where very nice and I found
out
that
Death Daisy isn't in any of the hamburger-in-a-tube that I
purchased.
Though I do worry that Daisy might have gone thru the grinder just
before
my burger did, so one pack that is dated well after her demise is
gonna
get
tossed. As always though, it appears our industry needs to do more
to
clean
up its act, according to news articles coming out.
Everyone might want to consider buying their beef and freezing it
for
a
month before consuming since it took 10 days for them to notify
consumers
after slaughter. We yet to be given information on how long it takes
from
slaughter to the dinner table. Perhaps someone here knows? ~ jan
On 25 Dec 2003 20:17:57 GMT, EROSPAM (Ka30P) wrote:
Well, drat!
Here SE WA is in the news and not a happy
story. The Mad Moo Cow came from a farm
not too far from where jj and k30a live.
And it looks like both jj and k30a had ground
beef from the plant that processed the poor
cow. All ground meat is off the shelves at
our stores, part of the recall.
Not that we're all that worried from what
we've been reading but sheesh!
What a way to waltz into Christmas!
And here I was teasing my CA brother about
his free range turkey at Thanksgiving! ;-)
ka30p
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