Have yourself a Merry Little Burger.

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | December 24, 2003 | Rush Limbaugh

[WackyKat]

Those who do their homework will find that McDonalds and BurgerKing, being ubiquitious in the fast food industry, have taken measures to isolate themselves from the beef industry.

Anyone who's eaten one of their burgers knows they "isolated themselves" from beef a long time ago.

Kangeroo is another matter....

[longtermmemmory]

The news media is giving peta full credibility coverage. Does anyone watch the TV network news? I wonder their stats compared to 2000.

[longtermmemmory]

Kangaroo is more expensive than beef.

BTW try Ostrich! It does taste just like beef. (finally something that does not taste like chicken.)

[sarasmom]

Not to burst your bubble, since I mostly agree with you, I would ask that before you blow sunshine up my nether orifices, to acknowledge the fact that cows are herbivores.
BSE and related threats to the food chain first started appearing when some idiot thought he/she could routinely feed an herbivore animal an omnivore diet, to increase profits, with no adverse reactions.
Scabies jumped from sheep to cows, and eventually mutated into BSE/Mad Cow Disease/human nvCJD because herbivores were forced fed as omnivores with meat by-products contaminated with diseased prions.
It does not matter how well you cook your meat.It will not protect you from diseased prions.
You can not clean the equipment at the slaughter house of prions by bleach, or autoclaveing, or irradiation.
It is not known how many particles of diseased prions it takes to cause nvCJD in humans, or even how many diseased prions it takes to spread BSE to cattle via contaminated food suppliments.
It is known that the entire problem would not BE a problem, if the meat industry just stopped feeding ground up cow meat to cows, and did not grind up sick cows to make cat and dog food in the same facilities they grind up sick cows to make meat by-products to feed humans.

[WackyKat]

It is known that the entire problem would not BE a problem, if the meat industry just stopped feeding ground up cow meat to cows, and did not grind up sick cows to make cat and dog food in the same facilities they grind up sick cows to make meat by-products to feed humans.

That's right; the meat industry fought more stringent procedures that were proposed after the European mad-cow outbreak on the basis that they would be costly,, and because of their political power, they prevailed.

Now that the inevitable has happened, I don't feel sorry for the greedy SOBs one little bit

[yankeedame]

Hubby and I went to Steak n' Shake tonight (well...given what time it is now I guess it was last night) about 6:45pm. The place was packed. So much for people being afraid to eat beef. (LOL! Of course, there was no reporter there.)

[jim35]

At last, an informed post on this subject. Every word of it true, I might add. One question only: scabies? is this a misprint? Last I checked, this was a skin parasite, that often infests humans.

[Prodigal Son]

Nope. They've just about banned hunting over there altogether.

Actually I meant you literally can't get a T-Bone steak over here anymore. It's not allowed. You can buy all manner of sirloin, rump steak, popeye etc but it can't have a bone in it- apparently. Been a pretty good while since I saw a proper T-Bone. Last time I believe was in S. Africa, 1998.

[jim35]

..."Now that the inevitable has happened, I don't feel sorry for the greedy SOBs one little bit"...

No need to feel sorry for them, they'll be fine. It's US that I feel sorry for. We are the ones who will suffer whatever consequences result from this idiocy.

[T Minus Four]

I cooked the most awesome prime rib roast ever for Christmas dinner, and I didn't waste one microsecond worrying about mad cow disease.

[meatloaf]

The problem is one of balance. It's either full blown panic as in ANYBODY WHO EVEN LOOKS AT A COW MUCH LESS EATS PART OF ONE IS GOING TO DIE! or hey folks, no problemo.

Well there is a problem. Seems like those folks that play the market are the ones driving old betsy down. Meanwhile no one seems to be wondering why that cow wasn't picked up after Canada found a case of mad cow. Sure we closed our borders to Canadian beef. The question is why didn't the USDA start tracking down every cow imported from Canada for testing upon slaughter?

It's a shame every cattleman who took the hit from the market drop can't sue the USDA. This should have never happened.

More crap like this and consumers will walk away from beef. Most posts I've read here indicate that few really understand, vCJD, CJD, CWD, or BSE much less the current research. Most consumers are in the same boat. The USDA needs to get its act together. If the USDA doesn't, we may see real panic.

[Volunteer]

I agree with you that feeding cows infected feed was - to put it kindly - a very, very bad idea.
But, given that the disease is in the brain, and spinal cord of the infected animal, avoiding these pieces seems to lower my risk of contracting this to a very, very, very low number. At least it seems safer than eating green onions at a Chi-Chi's back in Nashville.

[yankeedame]

That's right; the meat industry fought more stringent procedures that were proposed after the European mad-cow outbreak on the basis that they would be costly,, and because of their political power, they prevailed.

Now that the inevitable has happened, I don't feel sorry for the greedy SOBs one little bit

Yup, once "Big Cubed Steak" gets it's hands around the USDA's throat watch out! (Just teasing, WackyKat, just teasing.)

[tubebender]

It doesn't matter one whit about BSE. We were told on this forum that we were all going to be dead from SARs by New Years Day...or was it AIDs...or nuclear fallout...or Meteorites...or global warming...or was it fill in the blanks_________

[JennysCool]

Dandy point.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the article and the links.

Bumpity, bump!

[jim35]

I imply that ethics can be still be maintained when compromising a rock-hard position, if it is impossible to attain, in order to get something. Half a loaf is better than none at all.

[beaversmom]

We went to a Mexican restaurant tonight for dinner. I decided to be a chicken (no pun intended) and stick with the spinach enchiladas which included a nice sprinkling of green onions. You can't win. If it ain't mad cow it's Hep A. One way or another somethin's gonna get you in the end.

[E.G.C.]

Bump in support of El Rushbo.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Oops. I don't know. Keep me on any ping lists pertaining to Rush that you've got. Thanks.