Meat of Infected Cow Found in More States

News-Journal ^ | 12/28/2003 | AP

[sweetliberty]

"Can our pets get this?"

I heard somewhere last week that it is transmissable to many other animals. I don't know if that is accurate, but I have heard reports of some other animals contracting the disease, not realated to this incident, but perhaps when all the chaos was going on in the UK. I'll see if I can find anything.

PBWY has been researching this issue some. Perhaps he knows more.

[Freedom2specul8]

bookmarked for later reading..

[HungarianGypsy]

Is organic or corn-fed beef likely to be safer (although highly expensive)?

[JudgemAll]

I'm starting to get hungry.

[Gelato]

Not true. Cats and dogs in England died from the disease.

Well then I guess CBS news was wrong. Fancy that.

"There is no known risk to dogs . . . " http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/28/health/main542336.shtml

Glad I feed my dogs lamb.

[sweetliberty]

Okay, here's one thing I found:

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), popularized in the recent press coverage of the European epidemic as "mad cow disease," belongs to a group of progressively degenerative neurological diseases, collectively known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE’s)(See Table 1.) TSE’s are characterized by long incubation periods, short clinical course, 100% fatality, and no known course of treatment. The causative agent has not been fully characterized; however, resistance to physical and chemical agents that destroy nucleic acids essentially rules out conventional microbial and viral agents. The scientific community is increasingly referring to the "prion" theory as the most likely source of infection. The infection seems to be dependent on the infected animal’s own proteins, while the lack of foreign proteins allows the infectivity to remain invisible to the host’s immune system. This "invisibility" fails to provoke an antibody response, which. causes the development of typical vaccines and simple detection techniques to likely be improbable. The current test, other than post-mortem histopathology, involves the isolation of the appropriate suspected infected tissue (brain and other nervous tissue being best), injecting it into mice and waiting about 700 days for any symptoms to develop. The peculiar nature, invisibility, of the disease explains the possibility of spontaneous mutation as well as the spread from exposure, as this disease has the peculiarity of being both an acquired infection and a Mendelian inherited disease, generally considered inconsistent with an infectious agent. Additionally, the vulnerability of one species versus another varies considerably. A number of domestic cats (>86) in Great Britain have contracted encephalopathy; however, not a single dog, pig or horse have, despite exposure to the same agents thought to have transmitted the disease to the cats.

[Mo1]

"Okay, this may be a stupid question, but why does the meat of one cow go to 9 differnt places? "



Check out post #31 from Battle Axe .. that is how the meat packing place I worked at back in the 80's worked like ..


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1047684/posts?page=31#31

[madison10]

Then how come England destroyed the entire animal?

Because Brits eat cow brains? It is the brain/spinal cells that cause the problem. The British feed their cattle a feed mixed with the brain cells of other cattle. IF the one cow's infected cells are ingested by another cow, it too will probably become infected wiht Mad Cow. The U.S. (I believe) has stopped the sale & use of such feed. After all it is basically cannibalism. Same type (mad cow) of disease occurs in human cannibals.

They probably did not want to chance any of the infected cows/cattle becoming feed.

[EagleMamaMT]

Read later.

[Beck_isright]

Ruh-roh. But when will my porterhouses drop in price?

[John W]

Crowd Conrol,Crowd Control,Crowd Control.

[NetValue]

"Although federal officials maintain the food supply is safe, they have recalled as a precaution an estimated 10,000 pounds of meat from the infected cow and from 19 other cows all slaughtered Dec. 9 at Vern's Moses Lake Meat Co., in Moses Lake, Wash."

This sounds like the "miracle of the cows".

[null and void]

Glad I feed my dogs lamb.

Is this a bad time to point out that cows got BSE from being fed remains of sheep with scrapies?

[baltodog]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what I have ascertained from various reports:
1) A cow is slaughtered en masse, regardless of its apparently obvious physical condition.
2) Therefore, the suspected carcass has already been processed (up to and including consumer purchase) by the time the test results show up.
3) All slaughter tools have the potential of becoming infected if they have come into contact with said cow.
4) We have to depend on human-generated traceability records to show the cycle of disperement.

There is something wrong with how the whole thing handled.

BTW, I know it won't make anyone feel better, but the videos of the mad cow are stock foreign footage, I think.

[sd-joe]

they have found meat cut from a Holstein sick with mad cow disease was sent to four more states and one territory.

...some of the meat from the cow slaughtered Dec. 9 went to Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana and Guam. Earlier, officials had said most of the meat went to Washington and Oregon, with lesser amounts to California and Nevada.

How big a freakin cow is this??? (And it is a dairy cow to to boot, not a beef cow.)

One cow feeds eight states and a territory. This is a bigger miracle than the fish one a couple thousand years ago.

[SpaceBar]

When I read the headline, I thought the story was about the wide availability of a new heavy metal album.

[spectre]

"Aren't many inexpensive meat products made from the intestines?"

Hot dogs?

[Lady Jag]

This a really serious subject, I know, but I need a little levity for a moment.

[Lady Jag]

See the hotdog post after yours (77 or 78?).

Weren't steak and kidney pies made of offal, which were intestines and stuff? I remember years ago reading that because of BSE, offal was banned from those pies and other food items I wasn't familiar with.

[Djarum]

If the cow was known to be sick while still alive, why was the meat cut & sold? The meat should have at least been held until test were done on the brain.

I don't think they are supposed to accept 'downers', but some do anyway.