Mad cow disease in Calif.

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chickened said:
My understanding (loose) is that it is the brain and spinal tissue that harbors the disease and if you eat them humans may get it but eating the meat is supposedly safe.

I had 2 hogs butchered about a month ago and the guy removed the spinal cord and said it must be sent to a landfill not to the rendering plant by law, same with the brain but he atually sells the heads to the hispanics... brains and all.
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Blowback from the bolt gun can contaminate muscle and other meat cuts. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&...me1261&sig=AHIEtbR4ysXAuXgy55cOIeDN7AjGkz_zUg
 
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If I were a cow, I'd be mad if someone fed me chicken parts, too!


And this is why I'm thankful to live where local grassfed beef is abundant and affordable.
 
The animal may have tested positive as a preliminary diagnosis, but it is my understanding that a definitive diagnoses cannot be made until autopsy, or necropsy, as it is called in animals. Has this been done? And does anyone know if the cow in question was actually fed feed containing animal products? Most dairy cattle feeds do not contain such. Some do but most don't. And there is some question whether bovine BSE can actually be transmitted to humans anyway. The research studies is Britain that said it was are a little iffy. One of the original patients thought to have contracted BSE was found at autopsy to have actually had a brain condition that appears in chronic alcoholics, and at least two other patients were vegetarians who never ate meat of any kind, let alone beef. And for those who think grass fed is better, chew on this.There is a disease similar to BSE that appears in wild elk and deer in this country. It is not all that common, but it is not all that rare either. Are there any cases of BSE in humans who have eaten elk or deer? Does anyone know?
 
cassie said:
The animal may have tested positive as a preliminary diagnosis, but it is my understanding that a definitive diagnoses cannot be made until autopsy, or necropsy, as it is called in animals. Has this been done? And does anyone know if the cow in question was actually fed feed containing animal products? Most dairy cattle feeds do not contain such. Some do but most don't. And there is some question whether bovine BSE can actually be transmitted to humans anyway. The research studies is Britain that said it was are a little iffy. One of the original patients thought to have contracted BSE was found at autopsy to have actually had a brain condition that appears in chronic alcoholics, and at least two other patients were vegetarians who never ate meat of any kind, let alone beef. And for those who think grass fed is better, chew on this.There is a disease similar to BSE that appears in wild elk and deer in this country. It is not all that common, but it is not all that rare either. Are there any cases of BSE in humans who have eaten elk or deer? Does anyone know?
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CWD is transmittable via saliva, urine, ets. Farmed deer may have contracted CWD/BSE from consumption of feeds containing animal products long ago. Contact between farmed deer or thier urine may have been a transmission point to wild deer.

http://www.vet.k-state.edu/features/pdf/cwd.pdf
 
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