[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Creutzfeldt-Jakob takes as long as twenty years to show up in infected humans.

[Dallas59]

``The recalled meat represents essentially zero risk to consumers,''

Yea, if it never gets to the dinner table.

[nmh]

``The recalled meat represents essentially zero risk to consumers,'' Petersen said.

Then how come England destroyted the entire animal?

No beef for us. Obviously you can't believe these folks.

[Semi Civil Servant]

Look for great sales on beef soon at your favorite grocery store.

[rs79bm]

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

[Thinkin' Gal]

they have recalled as a precaution an estimated 10,000 pounds of meat from the infected cow

That's one hefty heifer.

[Polybius]

Dr. Kenneth Petersen, an Agriculture Department veterinarian, said investigators have now determined that 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, for distribution to consumers.

So....ummmmm....what's the "Sell By Date" for that particular cow?

[Ditter]

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.

[Sabatier]

"He said those trimmings were sold to
some three dozen small, Asian and Mexican
facilities in Washington, Oregon, California
and Nevada."


Shouldn't have eaten that beef chorizo. It sure tasted good, though.

[cynicom]

Chicken looks better everyday.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

British MP John Gummer and his daughter Cordelia demonstrating the safety of UK beef at a boat show in Suffolk on May 6, 1990.

[ikka]

The video I saw of the cow hobbling around and barely able to move should have given someone pause. Or are sick animals routinely cut up for sale to humans?

[Kevin Curry]

He stressed, though, that the parts most likely to carry the infection--the brain, spinal cord and lower intestine--were removed before the meat from the infected cow was cut and processed for human consumption.

Idea for "Far Side" cartoon: Man standing behind counter marked "Vern's Cow Brains, Spinal Cords, and Lower Intestines Delicatessan." Caption: "Unfortunately, Vern was a poor judge of consumer trends."

[sweetliberty]

Okay, this may be a stupid question, but why does the meat of one cow go to 9 differnt places? Why not send all the meat from a particular animal to the same place?

[AM2000]

Well, I was just about to order Dominos delivery when I read your post... so instead of the pizza with beef toppings, I ended up ordering the buffalo wings instead... I think I'll stick to chicken for the next 20 years or so :-)

[Psycho_Runner]

Real important link

http://viswiz.imk.fraunhofer.de/~steffi/madcow/madcow.htm

[mtbopfuyn]

Strike scrambled eggs with brains off the menu.

[Wolfie]

So first there was no problem, then only a problem at one farm, then only in one state, and now four states. Yep, our gov't is hard at work protecting its constituents alright.

[Freedom2specul8]

bookmarked for later reading..

[EagleMamaMT]

Read later.