NEWS: Mad Cow Found in Canada

CULTURE: Mad Cow Found in Canada

Canadian officials have confirmed a second case of mad cow disease in a dairy cow in Alberta. This follows a U.S.D.A. recommendation that the border be reopened to allow Canadian livestock to enter the United States.

The beef industry, along with the USDA, believe that another case of mad cow disease within the United States is likely.

re-opening this border is the only possible silver lining to me in the loss of the presidential election. Kerry would never have been so plainly reasonable and non-ridiculous on this issue, as was stated publically.

Blah blah blah... Like I keep saying... I'll actually worry about mad cow disease when I die from it or know someone who has.

what was he/she mad about?...................I'm sorry

You silly Canadians with your SARS and Mad Cow; you're lucky it's too cold up there for any germs to do real damage.

*shrug*
Being slaughtered and turned into a "happy meal"?

We're not paranoid weenies like the rest of the world. No bullshit lameass disease can kill me.

When asked why he was mad, the cow replied, "Dude. I'm in Canada."

Heh, good thing those aren't germs, then.

Cow: "I'm going to OHIO!!!???!!"

Everyone knows canada is unsafe and unclean.

How about - not eating cows.

I've lived in Alberta my whole life, and even though its the beef capital..i perfer vegetables.

Two cases of mad cow out of a pool of millions? Big deal. I take more of a risk go outside to check my mail. And it's not like my bills are juicy and delicious either.

I was rather shocked when I read a study on BSE (Mad Cow) that had plainly stated that not only was it not contageous, it wasn't even a disease...

Apparently (and I'm sure some would disagree, but the study and the evidence presented made a VERY solid case for it), it's caused by certain elements ingested, which cause a chemical reaction in the body that corrodes the brain.

Mad Cow Stuff that may or may not be crap (I lost the original article, or it may have been in print... this def. isn't the perfect reference)

Yeah, no one ever got sick from a vegetable before.

If God didn't want us to eat animals, then why did he make them taste so good?

I was in Toronto during the outbreak, I have a great story about it

well, bse is 'contagious' only if a prion protein is ingested. accumulation of those proteins, however, does cause disease. so, while the abnormal prion protein itself is not a disease, its accumulation can manifest into a degenerative neural disease.

i'm just waiting for someone to realize that we shouldn't be putting ground up cow into cow feed...

i mean, it's been determined that a probable cause of bse and jsd (or whatever the human version of it is called) is cannibalism...

COWTIP CANADA!

It was a Dairy Cow. We don't even eat those ones. We just milk them.

Not true
*edited in case you don't want to follow the link, since it's mostly about drugging-up dairy cattle

"Sad but true, 90 percent of downed animals in the US are dairy cows. Much of the meat culled from downed cows is ground into hamburger."

However, I wish vegetarians and vegans would just stay out of these threads so that the fool meat-eaters wouldn't make snarky comebacks.

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[Edited on Jan 02, 2005 9:48PM]

maybe YOU don't eat dairy cows

stoopid me

[Edited on Jan 02, 2005 by Oracle]