Mark Purdey coming to Alberta and Saskatchewan

[ianben]

Yeah grassfarmer

This theory does seem better than most add a genetic factor ie we bred though AI a more suseptable dairy herd than average and it could work to explain most of our senarios which no one else has managed yet

I dont believe BSE was new just undetected till we recyclced it big time. I think very small numbers of cases will be found in every country if they are prepared to LOOK!!!

[grassfarmer]

Cakadu, I've emailed you the article in question.

[cakadu]

Thanks grassfarmer. I look forward to reading it. Cheers!!

Ianben, I think you're right about finding something if you look for it. I wonder how sophisticated the testing has to become.

Take something as simple as e-coli for example, one of the professor emeritus on food safety from the U of A said several years ago that we are just at the tip of the iceberg when it comes to understanding e-coli. As the testing gets more sophisticated, so will what we discover. The point being here that we still don't understand how some of these things work, despite having known and studied them for years already.

We need to start looking at what we are going to do when we find and understand more - how will we use this information?

[cowman]

Well hopefully we will use it for food safety? A lot of people are quite cheerful to say that the "statistics for BSE" are so small that testing isn't warranted. Well looking at the big picture I guess they are right...the only problem is, if you are the one that gets it then, for you, it becomes THE picture, period! At that time statistics mean absolutely nothing...at least to you?
I like to think that most people would do the right thing? For example if they suspected something was wrong with their product they would get it tested?
They sad truth is there are people out there who wouldn't, even if it meant the death of someone else? I will submit to you that those people are no better than your low-life drug dealer, dealing death out on the street corner?