U.S. Issues Declaration of Emergency for Mad Cow Disease

NewsMAX.com ^ | 9/30/01 | US Secretary of Agriculture

[AgThorn]

Don't bother replying to rubes who spit out one-sentence quips like that. I guarantee you the poster will neither post a retraction, nor read your reply and the associated links (although he might pretend he did.)

Normally I wouldn't ... with all the chatter about the quality of NewsMax and such, that was the only reason I even bothered to verify his claim had no foundation. Thanks for the feedback though.

[Robert Lomax]

How do we know that this is not some form of bio-terrorism?

[dbbeebs]

So, in net, you had me going there for a moment but your claim was quickly proven false and NewsMAX is accurate ... Please post your retraction.

Dream on. Re-read your "research".

[t-shirt]

Mad Cow Scam = Operation wipe-out the farmers and destroy property rights.

[strela]

Thanks for the reference. I've been exposed to it already (lived in London UK in the late 70s/early 80s). I'm not mad and I don't moo, but you never know.

[dbbeebs]

"U.S. Government Issues "Declaration of Emergency" for Disease Similar to Mad Cow NewsMax.com Wires Sunday, Sept. 30, 2001 "

AgThorn altered the title. Intentionally, it appears.

[Sir Gawain]

William Cooper had an article about this in APRIL.

[dbbeebs]

Please confess that you intentionally altered the title.

[dbbeebs]

Please accept my humble apology. Further research indicates that NEWSMAX changed the title after you posted.
I'm sorry that I declared you altered the title. That's not true.

[AnnaZ]

Mad Cow Disease... Chronic Wasting Disease.

 

Toe-may-toe... toe-mah-toe.

 

 

If your brain were rendered useless by "part of a group of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE's), a group that also includes scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)", of what import to you would be the type?

[Syncro]

LOL type or typo.......har..

Had goats that got CAE...Caprine Arthritus Ensephalitus or how ever you spill it...we used DSMO...

[MJY1288]

I was flamed and insulted for questioning NewsMax's title for this article, I asked my wife (She is a Microbioligist) if CWD and MCD was in fact the same. She told me that they were in the same family but it would be false to claim this as Mad Cow Disease.

I immediately emailed NewsMax and told them that this article had a BOGUS title, and low and behold they changed it. This is not AgThorn's mistake nor was it intentional, The original title for this article was as he posted it.

This also gives me one more reason to question NewsMax's integrity. I feel they sensationalize things too much. In my first post I was criticizing the Title of the Article not the person posting it, or the Declaration itself, but I was flamed for saying something about it, I was even accused of not reading the Declaration. But thats the way it goes sometimes around here, some people want to flame others any chance they get. AgThorn did not flame anyone in fact he spent alot of time defending NewsMax. Hats off to ya AgThorn, NewsMax let us down today

[Dick Bachert]

Not to make light of a serious health risk, but I thought it might be helpful for Freepers to be able to identify a MAD COW -- or Hillary at a Bush speech.

[Elkiejg]

For those doubting the accuracy of this report - let me tell you it's true. A friend of our family died from CJD last year. The docs. didn't know what it was at first. There is no cure. It strikes very fast, starts off like Alzheimers (sp?) - but within 1 mo. he was in a nursing home and in another month, he died. This is nothing to take lightly. There hasn't been much written about it because I think the gov. doesn't want to start a panic. To the best of my knowledge, they don't don't know what causes it or where it comes from - at least that's true in the case of our family friend. He had not been in Europe for many, many years, so however it got it, it was in the US.

[A. Pole]

There hasn't been much written about it because I think the gov. doesn't want to start a panic.

So is the feeding of dead animals to cows forbidden in USA or not?

[carenot]

You forgot me.

I am hurt. I shall tell PETA.

[MJY1288]

Actually, from what I have been told, MCD is linked to feeding cattle "Bone meal" from destroyed animals, I think Cattle are not meat eaters, Bone meal is added to their diet for increasing the rate of growth (but for pete's sake..don't qoute me) it's been a rough day for me here :-)