If someone said "Here is some hamburger made from the cow that tested positive for BSE, would you eat it?" What would you do? Remember that our scientists have said it is perfectly safe...would you eat it?
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Honest truth, cowman? I have no idea until I'm confronted with the situation. Until someone slaps a hamburger down on the table and tells that's where it's from, I have no idea. I'd like to think so, but then again I've eaten cougar and bear meat and I have no idea where they’ve been or ate.
What never ceases to amaze me is how people will get so squeamish about some rare and exotic hard to contact disease but will routinely engage in a familiar but high risk behaviour, like jumpin' in the old feed truck and runnin' into town to get the mail and a quick cuppa coffee, when it's statistically proven that one of the most dangerous things you can do is drive a vehicle in familiar surrounding. Or the Japanese, how they can be absolutely paranoid about a rare British brain wasting disease when there has never been a documented case of a Japanese person with CJD and 6 to 10 Japanese people die per year from eating ill prepared fugu (puffer fish)
I ain’t eatin’ no damn puffer fish, that’s for sure! :-D *BG*
I routinely fish, all alone, hours and days at a time, in grizzly country; does that make me someone with a death wish?? No, it makes me someone who takes all reasonable precautions and then goes fishin’!
If you go and research BSE and vCJD and it’s all “evidence points to” and “we’re still workin’ on it”, no definitive links , there is enough anomalies in this deal to keep everyone guessing. Make no mistake about it, I’m all for caution but until something is definitely proven; the only thing we have is the science of statistics!
I know y’all are all in favour of testing every head slaughtered, fair enough, but you better have all your ducks in a row because statistics say, that it looks like, 1 in million hd of cattle will get BSE spontaneously! Are you prepared for what 5 or 6 cases per year will do to your markets?? It’ll make what happened up till now; look like a walk in the park!!
Looks to me; if you wanna be 100% safe from CJD, your only option is incinerating all cull cattle over 30 mths of age! Statistically speaking, of course!!
Take Care!
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Well if you test them you'll even catch those 5 or 6 spontaneous ones, right? Tested beef is safe beef...does this make sense?
How could the consumer be concerned if all BSE cattle were weeded out using the test?
The Japanese have found two animals with BSE that were under 30 months old. Now does this suggest that the young stuff is safe? How do we explain those two animals away?
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Testing every slaughtered animal may well be the long term answer but just how many iron clad guarantees are in place so that we won't lose the few exports markets we have left once we declare a few more cases of BSE ????? Hope you like cheap beef.
And the 2 young positives in Japan plus they found 1 or 2 more in the UK and 1 ,I think, in Italy, all under 30 months... Yeah so?? What about the 2 long term vegans who died of vCJD??? And that the whole point, they just don't know enough yet, anomalies, more scientific investigation needed.
This whole deal's a friggin' mess and there ain't no simple answers.
Take Care!
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