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OT ~ Mad Moo Cow in SE WA
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! 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