3rd Case and Resignations

[15444]

Being a producer and a young one at that, I have always have had and anticipated to have absolute confidence in our industry for years to come. With the addition of this 3rd case however, I am beginning to take on a whole new perspective of the safety of our system.

I make the motion that Andy Mitchell, Stan Eby, and a few other people involved in the ag industry, be asked to submit letters of resignation. This is shameful! Either we continue to allow animal protein in feeds and test EVERY animal, or we actually do what we preach and eliminate ANY animal protein of any sort into the animal foodchain.

Thank goodness the meat I consume is all home grown with nothing but actual grain and hay.

But, if this is how I am currently viewing the system, I wonder what the average Canadian consumer thinks?...One case they could handle, maybe 2...but when we have a 3rd right on the heels of the 2nd? The reaction to this, on multiple scales, will be interesting.

[ALICIA]

15444= It looks bad I know. But I heard it is a nother holstein. They believe that it is in the milk replacer that they use to raise the calf at birth. If they can narrow it down to just that then things aren't as bad as they look, they are even saying a little bit that the first one may of been a twin that they raised on the bottle.

[15444]

An excerpt from CBC.ca:

'The Canadian ban on putting cattle remains into cattle feed came into effect in August 1997. This latest animal was born in March 1998.

The disease spreads when cattle eat the remains of infected animals.

<b>The CFIA says the animal did not enter the human or animal food chain. </b>

Mitchell has ordered the CFIA to find out what the cow may have been fed in the first few months of its life.'


That one sentence, should not even exist in its current form. There should not be ANY animal proteins of ANY kind going into the animal food chain! Until everyone starts singing this same tune, then we are always going to have BSE looming over our shoulders.

I am also amazed that the US didn't make a move on the border today. This border deal might not be so much bullshit after all! Time will tell.

[ianben]

Where did BSE come from?

CJD we know occurs naturally in humans in very small numbers 1/million/year is about the average I believe.

Is the same true in cattle?

Humans who eat human brains have much higher cases some canibals had very high number of CJD cases

Here in UK I can see meat and bone meal being responsible for the high numbers but not the original case.

I believe BSE is like CJD and has always existed in very small numbers.

If a country is responsible and tests for BSE correctly eventually they get unlucky and find the one in a million. Then increase testing and find a few more which if I am right is what would be expected. No where has had an epedemic like us.

Who now has the safest beef us in UK where we test and only eat under 30 months
Canada who test and remove the one in a million or
US who pretend?

I would think that if you where really really unlucky the animal you kill for the freezer then your family eat whole thing could just be that one in a million. A bit like winning the lottery in reverse.

We dont do it any more. Still eat lots of beef from lots of animals

[ALICIA]

Iamben- 100 people died from this, and 2 people were vegetarion's. I wonder what they eat that was vegie's. Snaking on each other may be.