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Mad Cow Slaughters Cattle Bulls As Animal Spirits Doused
UPDATE: via Bloomberg:
*MEAT FROM ANIMAL DID NOT ENTER FOOD CHAIN, USDA SAYS
*COW WITH MAD-COW DISEASE CONFIRMED IN CALIFORNIA, USDA SAYS
Rumors of the return of bovine spongiform encephalopathy - or mad cow disease - in the US as the USDA conducts a conference to discuss the potential find of an infected animal has sent Live and Feeder Cattle futures limit-down and back to almost 8 month lows prices. The find has been confirmed, according to The Farmer-Stockman. Now, where is that zombie survival chart?
Live Cattle Futures...
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OMG...That was funny!
Scientists have determined that living is hazardous to your health and could result in the loss of life.
I have, for a long time, said that every baby should receive a tattoo:
"WARNING: Living Causes Death"
You know, many do not believe this.
Someday I hope to get to the Pearly Gates - and while I may not get in, I hope to have a few questions answered while I'm there.
One might be: "WHY DO THE BAD SEEM TO LIVE SOOOO LONG AND WHY DO THE GOOD SEEM TO DIE SO YOUNG?"
You have been Corzined. Pasturize that Bitcheez.
http://www.totallytom.com/MadCow.html
Just what California needed...
Canine = dog; Feline = cat; Bovine = cow; Lupine = wolf
Corzine = ??????
Vampire Squid.
So that is what Jim Cramer has. Constantly flapping gums and throwing things.
...and a chronically stupid-ass blank-brained look.
Something tells me steaks will be on sale this weekend....
Anyone hear what town the cow was located in?
Damn, thanks for all the info on Mad Cows. I always thought they american feminists!
A more serious question....the USDA said that this dairy cow did not get MCD from its feed.
Accepting that on face value, then I have to really wonder where this dairy cow did pick up MCD....it is a CA dairy cow so it was not exposed to something such as an elk herd in Wyoming which harbor the disease. CA dairy cows are tightly controlled and it is really a wonder where the cow might have picked up MCD, if it was not from its feed.
Anyone interested in this subject, who has not already done so, should read "Deadly Feasts"....and also look at the prion which causes the disease....very interesting from a scientific point of view.
I like cows. They got skinny feet. I like cows. I like to watch em eat.
Hey moooooooove over!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCk4ywD_yyM
The Suburbs
OH GOD WHAT A TOTAL IDIOTS
Stop grinding up cows and feed them to other cows!
Cows are VEGETARIAN.
sjeesh
All you have to do is ban feeding rendered meat back to cattle and the problem goes away forever. But profits and all that...
This is a great issue now that noone trusts our elected representatives or our president with the funny birth certificate. Hope and change is doing a lot to bring issues such as this to the forefront.
Blame China! How original.
Turning our meat into cannibals is just wrong. Nature obviously agrees. I'd much wather eat the local cottontails. Wabbit stew, yum yum.
I've a theory that, with respect to Elk in Colorado, (which you get tested for a similar, human transmissable, spongiform encephelopathy when you take them while hunting) and likely other places (Deer in the east, but I've not looked into this issue recently as I've not hunted in a while), that the suppression of fires in ranges tends to allow the prion to accumulate in the shallow soils and forage material. While the transmission rate is increadibly slow naturally (next to nil) once an area is impacted, it begins to spread around with the decomposition and scavenging of dead animals, and the feces of living ones.
Naturally, this tendancy would not arise with the fairly regular fire cycle of an area (which will vary with ecosystem, probably on the 10-200 year cycle from grasses to forest) but if the fire cycle is suppressed and then a local cohort of animals is infected with the prion, it would tend to manifest itself fairly rapidly and begin to cross into other regions with migration patterns of either the grazers or their predators.
For example, say the the Index case is an Elk that just got it from a chance flipping of the protein (the "bad" protein, is, as I understand it isomeric i.e. a mirror image of the good one which once flipped has the ability to catalyze the good protein to flip easier than it's natural energy state allows [nutshell description disclaimer])
The Elk shits in a lot of places, but between the natural rarity of the pathogen and the occasional burning of the wintering ranges in the summer, it's very low probability that it spreads even on the animals death and disarticulation/scavenging (it's also not very "virulent" as far as aquisition goes).
Jump to today, where especially in Colorado, there is a pretty good population ("managed" high fence herds on large acreage included) and some pretty intense fire suppression particularly in the past. Once one gets it, and shits around, the prions have enough time to be ingested by others, who further spread it to a larger than historically typical area, which insures that some of it remains in the local ecosystem, probably to the point that it begins to be spread outside of areas where fires usually would have sterilized X amount of surface area in the past. Poof! It's now endemic to the area barring a regional conflagration, or something that seriously depletes herd size to where they don't have a lot of local groups comingling.
If this theory is true, and deer get a similar or the same pathogen, then there should be a noticable increase in the numbers of them having it over the last 20 or so years east of the Mississippi, and of people who hunt getting it too (I'll have to do a bit of perusing on that).
After reviewing some literature on the subject and recalling a book I'd read on it a while back, it appears that the bottom line on this is that it got started from feeding shit (sick and downer animals to carnivorous and non carnivorous farm stocks) to animals that didn't usually eat shit. I.e., it's rare as hell naturally, but if you concentrate the hell out of it making MinkCatGoatSheepCowElkDeerPeople food out of shit, bad shit happens...
I do still believe natural fire is one means of it being held in check naturally, and that that may just be the remedial prescription for getting it out of the areas it's become entrenched in...
BSE researcher, Mark Purdey, explains TSE:
http://www.markpurdey.com/news_the_cause_of_bse.htm
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Don't you worry bitches, they will make pink slime out of her and put it in veggie burgers.