Posted on 01/11/2005 3:06:17 PM PST by youngtory
It was never a good idea to grind up animals and feed them to cattle. People who do things like that need to be exposed, imo.
Probably just a false positive and not even Mad Cow. The cow from Canada should be sent to the US to be tested in Ames, Iowa. I bet it would test negative.
Sadly, that isn't the case. The initial tests were repeated and verified as BSE. The main question I believe, will be to try to determine whether or not the feed in question was contaminated before or after the feed ban was put in place.
Canada has developed an extensive individual animal ID database over the last 4 years. But animals older than that, as this cow is, wouldn't be in the database.
Please see my post #9 to see why you wouldn't get the reassurance that you seek.
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