How bad is BSE; Mad Cow Disease?

Well if you consider what it is and how it works it is

an absolute nightmare. It is all the National Beef

Association can do to keep consumers informed, watch

for BSE cows and prevent their ranchers from going

broke due to a mass media hysteria scare. Mad Cow has

scared the nation because of the issues, which occurred

in the UK and recently when some BSE cows were found in

Canada. If you will recall the news as we watched on

our TV sets sheep, cows and other livestock slaughtered

to contain the disease. Many liberal groups are using

this scare to get you to stop eating beef.



[http://www.earthsave.org/news/madcow.htm]

The threat is real, and it can be overcome; by not

feeding animals the remains of other animals within

their genome type. The practice of chopping up parts of

animals not used such as the heads and brains of the

same species causes this. It is the same as our species

when they practice cannibalism. It is a dumb idea.

[http://www.stats.org/statswork/blood-2001.htm]

It would be similar to us eating dead AIDS victims all

chopped up and mixed into our food. Even some of the

African Cultures believe in eating the dead and this is

another way AIDS spreads to the entire village. Of

course there are other ways to get mad cow disease from

cow to cow, but in Europe this is what caused its rapid

spreading originally. We have laws against such

practices obviously in the US. But once one cow gets

it, it can give it to the rest of the heard fairly

easily, remember cows have a double digestive system

and eats its first time around processed food. So a

whole heard could get it quite easily. It could be

tracked in on cow pies debris on shoes, it only takes a

little bit you see, many researchers disagree that it

can spread this way, but they cannot prove it doesn’t

either. Yes you cannot worry about everything. BSE as

it’s called has some interesting characteristics, you

may wish to read up on;

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/oa/bse/

As you may not realize about 800 million pounds of

animals are fed to other animals every day. While this

may be a good way to not waste any part of the animal,

it can lead to the spread of disease especially if fed

to the same species, which we know is a very bad idea.

http://www.drday.com/madcow.htm

We should not fear BSE or stop eating meat, but we

should be informed and as consumer let it be known that

we want safe beef in our food supply and we applaud the

efforts of our ranchers and expect the utmost care to

continue long into the future. Think about it.

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