Mad cow risk in US?

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I am curious about the risk, if any, of Mad Cow in the US? I have been a vegetarian for over 10
years and now I am really craving meat. So without starting any other threads regarding the
switch, how safe is the meat

supply

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in the US?

The only risk of mad cow in the US, is if someone pisses off Oprah.

;-)

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I am curious about the risk, if any, of Mad Cow in the US? I have been a vegetarian for over 10
years and now I am really craving meat. So without starting any other threads regarding the
switch, how safe is the meat supply in the US?

it's all safe unless you get that one bad cow that snuck down from Canada

Chris said:

The only risk of mad cow in the US, is if someone pisses off Oprah.

Or my sister-in-law-in-law (wife's brother's wife). We call her "heifer" for a reason :-)

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I am curious about the risk, if any, of Mad Cow in the US? I have been a vegetarian for over 10
years and now I am really craving meat. So without starting any other threads regarding the
switch, how safe is the meat supply in the US?

A few months ago I reviewed the US Department of Agriculture's and the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention's websites's reports on BSE and vCJD. The USDA does not incloude the US among those
countries affected bt BSE. the CDC reports one case of a US resident diagnosed with vCJD, but he
grew up in the United Kingdom while BSE was peaking. So, there is no known risk of Mad Cow or vCJD
from US beef. Here's a pointer to my roiginal posting. My stuf is at the bottom, without the ">"s.

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-bwg

n said:

I am curious about the risk, if any, of Mad Cow in the US? I have been a vegetarian for over 10
years and now I am really craving meat. So without starting any other threads regarding the
switch, how safe is the meat supply in the US?

Herds are not routinely tested, for one thing. And the feeding of ground-up sheep to cattle only
stopped relatively recently. So there is a risk. Given how long UK farmers covered up the incidence
of mad cow disease, it wouldn't surprise me if it already existed in the US.

n said:

I am curious about the risk, if any, of Mad Cow in the US? I have been a vegetarian for over 10
years and now I am really craving meat. So without starting any other threads regarding the
switch, how safe is the meat supply in the US?

There are many reasons to be a vegetarian in the United States, but food safety is not one of them.
Even vegetarians would have come down with hepititis if they ate the green onions that were
suspected of causing more than 500 cases of food poisoning at a restaurant in Pennsylvania a couple
of months ago.

Good information. I am somewhat confused---I have heard you have to eat brains or groundbeef to get
exposed to "mad cow", what about just a nice steak? Of course I am relieved somewhat by the report
about 0 incidence---but I am curious on the transmission and what part of the cow you would have
had to eaten.

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I am curious about the risk, if any, of Mad Cow in the US? I have been a vegetarian for over 10
years and now I am really craving meat. So

without

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starting any other threads regarding the switch, how safe is the meat

supply

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in the US?

A few months ago I reviewed the US Department of Agriculture's and the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention's websites's reports on BSE and vCJD. The USDA does not incloude the US among those
countries affected bt BSE. the CDC reports one case of a US resident diagnosed with vCJD, but he
grew up in the United Kingdom while BSE was peaking. So, there is no known risk of Mad Cow or vCJD
from US beef. Here's a pointer to my roiginal posting. My stuf is at the bottom, without the ">"s.

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-bwg

On 12/14/2003 6:36 AM, in article [email hidden],
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n said:

I am curious about the risk, if any, of Mad Cow in the US? I have been a vegetarian for over 10
years and now I am really craving meat. So without starting any other threads regarding the
switch, how safe is the meat supply in the US?

Infinitely more safe than canada's

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There are many reasons to be a vegetarian in the United States, but food safety is not one of
them. Even vegetarians would have come down with hepititis if they ate the green onions that were
suspected of causing more than 500 cases of food poisoning at a restaurant in Pennsylvania a
couple of months ago.

Hey Stan, how about an attaboy for your favorite President.

Dow near 10k Unemployment down, manufacturing up Medicare bill passed Tax refund Saddam looking at
the death penalty

And you can't figure out why demos are loosing right and left..................

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:07:46 GMT, The Wolf <[email hidden]>
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Hey Stan, how about an attaboy for your favorite President.

Dow near 10k Unemployment down, manufacturing up Medicare bill passed Tax refund Saddam looking at
the death penalty

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/em snorts

Unemployment is down; but still isn't as low as it was before the Shrub took office. The medicare
bill is very debatable; many senior citizens are outraged according to reports (do a quick search on
how many have quit AARP because the powers that be in that organization supported it) and quite a
few people believe all it will do is cause the drug companies to get richer and prescription costs
to the elderly to rise. A tax refund was, frankly, stupid, considering that our national deficit is
at $292,771,567.00 and growing by about 2.34 billion per day. (You do realize someone's going to
have to pay for all this someday, right?) I don't see anything here that justifies an attaboy... Oh,
wait. He finally got one of the people he's been hunting; too bad he hasn't been so lucky finding
those "weapons of mass destruction". The cost for this success in lives has been increasingly steep
and will continue to rise (but hey, it's none of the drunken Bush spawn, so who cares, right? -
morals clauses would probably keep all of them out of the military anyhow), not to mention the cost
in cold, hard cash (see the about comments about the deficit). Yeah, he's been a peach of a
president. :-(

Regards, Tracy R.

The Wolf said:

Hey Stan, how about an attaboy for your favorite President.

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Dow near 10k Unemployment down, manufacturing up Medicare bill passed Tax refund Saddam looking at
the death penalty

The DOW near 10K, but when Bush campaigned, you Republicans said the president has nothing to do
with the health of the stock market. So which is it?

Unemployment is down only if you consider minimum wage part time jobs. Jobs that actually pay enough
where employees can afford to live in comfortable circumstances are way down. You keep believing
that Bush's cooked job numbers are on the rise. That's the very same mistake the Shrub's father made
and we see where it got him.

Medicare bill passed? True and it represents a huge increase in the size of government and at least
a trillion dollars of spending that the government does not have. So tell me, exactly how is this
medicare bill the hallmark of a party that says it wants to reign in spending and reduce the size of
government?

Tax refund while local taxes are soaring in many places. Total net tax change (federal, state, and
local) after many cuts from the federal spending is UP, not down.

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And you can't figure out why demos are loosing right and left..................

Losing right and left? They lost in the mid-term for a simple reason, they cow-towed to Bush and
they ran weak candidates. So keep making the same mistakes that Bush the elder made. The trouble
with Republicans is many of them have trouble learning from their past mistakes. Democrats are not
perfect, but they have clearly learned from the mistakes made during the previous mid-term election.
So don't count your chickens before they hatch.

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I am curious about the risk, if any, of Mad Cow in the US? I have been a vegetarian for over 10
years and now I am really craving meat. So without starting any other threads regarding the
switch, how safe is the meat supply in the US?

The US Department of Agriculture reported today the first suspected case of mad cow disease in one
cow in Washington State.

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-bwg

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A few months ago I reviewed the US Department of Agriculture's and the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention's websites's reports on BSE and vCJD. The USDA does not incloude the US among those
countries affected bt BSE. the CDC reports one case of a US resident diagnosed with vCJD, but he
grew up in the United Kingdom while BSE was peaking. So, there is no known risk of Mad Cow or vCJD
from US beef. Here's a pointer to my roiginal posting. My stuf is at the bottom, without the ">"s.

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-bwg

"Barry Grau" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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The US Department of Agriculture reported today the first suspected case of mad cow disease in one
cow in Washington State.

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Only one cow tested positive for BSE in Canada yet the US banned imports of Canadian cattle and beef
(and other countries followed their lead). Why should other countries believe "the American food
supply is safe" and continue importing American beef?

rona

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On 12/23/2003 3:08 PM, in article
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switch, how safe is the meat supply

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in the US?

The US Department of Agriculture reported today the first suspected case of mad cow disease in one
cow in Washington State.

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What did you expect? It had to happen sooner or later.

Washington state borders that third world country canada.
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Rona Yuthasastrakosol said:

"Barry Grau" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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The US Department of Agriculture reported today the first suspected case of mad cow disease in one
cow in Washington State.

abcnews.go.comap20031223 1842.htmlOpen ↗

Only one cow tested positive for BSE in Canada yet the US banned imports of Canadian cattle and
beef (and other countries followed their lead). Why should other countries believe "the American
food supply is safe" and continue importing American beef?

rona

Now you are just being plain nasty, Rona. By now, you should be thoroughly familiar with the
refrain, U.S. beef is safest in the world. Also, that the Sec. of Agriculture said it's safe. After
all, it's not Canadian beef.

As for me, it would seems like it would only be prudent to protect Canadians by banning U.S. beef
into Canada. Look at it this way, you would be doing America a favor by helping to drive down the
price of beef.
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ter stay home."
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