Mad cow disease in Calif.

[hemet dennis]

Just saw this on the news.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/mad-cow-case-confirmed-california-190915437.html

 

[Habibs Hens]

hope that gets sorted soon

 

[redhen]

 

[redhen]

So how did it get here then? :/
Dang and i like to eat bites of raw hamburg sometimes too...
Guess i wont be doing that anymore..

 

[AquaEyes]

So how did it get here then?

Dang and i like to eat bites of raw hamburg sometimes too...

Guess i wont be doing that anymore..

BSE-prions are not destroyed at normal cooking temperatures.

It's spread among livestock by using infected animal products (typically meat-and-bone meal) in livestock feed. After the first BSE encounters in the 1990s, the US banned the feeding of ruminants (cattle, sheep and goats) food that contained mammalian meat products. However, mammalian meat products could still be fed to non-ruminant animals (such as pigs, poultry, dogs and cats), and poultry meat products could still be fed to ruminants. So the cycle was not completely closed, and this has been discussed for years as a possible route for BSE to gain access to cattle.

Say, for example, infected cattle tissue was detected. It couldn't be sold as food for humans, so into the animal food system it goes. It couldn't go into cattle, sheep or goat feed, but it could go into poultry, pig or pet feed. If the prions infected poultry, we wouldn't know, since it isn't tested for BSE. If infected poultry material was then used to make cattle feed (poultry products are completely legal to be used in cattle feed, and have been used in feedlot feed for a long time), then reinfection of cattle could be possible. Because the prions require very high temperatures (typically higher than those reached in many rendering plants) to be destroyed, the cycle of reinfection remains open, albeit indirectly.

Europe banned the feeding of cattle any animal products in order to prevent future BSE. The US decided to be less restrictive, likely a result of pressure from the feed and beef industries, thus continuing to allow cows, sheep and goats to be fed meat-and-bone meal and other animal products, so long as they don't come from other cows, sheep or goats. But chickens can eat the cows, and then cows can eat the chickens.

 

[hemet dennis]

So how did it get here then?

Dang and i like to eat bites of raw hamburg sometimes too...

Guess i wont be doing that anymore..

All you have to do is cook it at over 800 degrees for about 20 min. and you should be somewhat safe.

 

[Imp]

red... posted this article on fb. It says here that the BSE was an atypical form, not generally related to infected feed.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout...16,2961835776903&fb_action_types=news.reads&f

Imp- Hopefully this means it will not cause the huge problems that cases in the 90's caused.

 

[hemet dennis]

I heard some liberals saying we should not call it mad cow they want "special needs cows".

 

[AquaEyes]

red... posted this article on fb. It says here that the BSE was an atypical form, not generally related to infected feed.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout...16,2961835776903&fb_action_types=news.reads&f

Imp- Hopefully this means it will not cause the huge problems that cases in the 90's caused.

When I read the article, I had a different interpretation of the sentence below:

"The animal tested positive for atypical BSE, a very rare form of the disease not generally associated with an animal consuming infected feed."

I took this to mean that the BSE is not from the same prion that was found other times. To me, this doesn't eliminate the possibility that it can be transmitted the same way -- only that it isn't the same one that was studied before. "Not generally associated" could mean that it was studied and little or no association was found, OR that it was studied little and thus we don't know its association with infected feed.

 

[Fowl_Odor002]

funny how the government had the FBI shut down that Amish farm that sold milk
then they arrested rawsome foods for selling goat cheese
now they are in michigan shooting pigs at small farms

but yet
no feds here