Merry Christmas.. Here's some Mad Cow!

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This is exactly how I greeted this morning when I saw the headlines in the Time Colonist (Victoria, BC newspaper) on the counter of my cousin's restaurant:

M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S !

[picture of girl putting up the last ornament on her big huge christmas tree]

Mad cow case suspected in U.S.

Here's the link to the story. CNN has a link to the story too, but are playing it down (for better or worse)

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

More from the Seattle Times.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

It was on the news last night but I was watching the Simpsons instead.

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

What's hilarious is that while I trust this is an extremely isolated case and that it's safe to eat U.S. beef, shares of McDonald's went down in Japan a significant amount! All just because of one sick cow in near the Washington/Oregon border. Not to be an apologist for McDonald's, but... for fuck and shame.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 25 December 2003 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a steak sandwich not too long ago, and I live in California.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 25 December 2003 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Are there such things as 'isolated cases' of mad cow disease? It's transmitted through food, right? We're not talking about individual servings for each heifer.

The FDA finally banned 'cow cannibalism' because of mad cow worries, but still allows cows to be fed sheep and pig, which can both carry the disease.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 25 December 2003 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The FDA finally banned 'cow cannibalism' because of mad cow worries, but still allows cows to be fed sheep and pig, which can both carry the disease.

What?!

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 25 December 2003 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I am alarmed by the fact that the FDA is making exactly the same mistakes as the MAFF (Ministry of Agricuture, Fisheries and Food) made in the late 80s over here; i.e. limited testing of suspect cows, saying all meat is safe and even to the point of having bigwigs feedingtheir children beef on tv (OK the last one hasn't happened yet).

I hope very quickly US officials will be asking for help from the UK as the first 6 years of the BSE crisis over here was a complete fiasco. What the FDA needs to do as a matter of urgency is clamp down on abbatoirs that allow spinal cord and other nervous tissue to enter the food supply, this means slowiwng down line speeds, and increasing costs. The also need to be making sure that no nervous tissue ends up in animal feeds, a suspected cause of bse is infected sheep based animal feeds.

Hopefully this will act as a wake up call and husbandry will be improved across the US, and quickly. It took 10 very painful years over here. It needn't have taken so long.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 25 December 2003 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Ed, you should, sadly, never underestimate the cockiness and stupidity of the Beef Council in the U.S. One time, Oprah Winfrey showcased the details of a cow slaughterhouse on her show, and she said something to the effects of "I will never eat a hamburger again". She was sued left and right for libel and slander for saying that on her show, and almost had to legally retract her statement, but the case was settled out of court, I believe. So I have no trust in the U.S. beef industry giving shit about anything but its own interests, even at the sacrifice of a few deaths here and there.

Excellent and informative points you make there. (I don't eat beef or meat for that matter, so no direct worries here, but I'm more concerned about the economic impact here, what I stated above, and especially having several innocent and non-diseased farm animals get slaughtered over this for no good reason)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 25 December 2003 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The beef industry here has never fully recovered, huge numbers of farmers have left the business.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 25 December 2003 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

th beef council better get working because they will loose their shirts if anyone catches vCJD and can brove their negligence.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 25 December 2003 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope you bastards get the disease and die......

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!

― The Leader (Adrian McCoy), Thursday, 25 December 2003 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Merry Christmas to you too.

I hope you die too.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 25 December 2003 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

What?

― Dan I., Thursday, 25 December 2003 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

What?

I was talking to The Leader.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 25 December 2003 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha. canada's been getting punished for having 1 case of mad cow for a while now.
suck it u.s. - thanks for all the support.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 25 December 2003 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

you'll never stop me eatin my squirrel brains!!

― Kentucky Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 25 December 2003 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

tracer, you reckon you can get some of those squirrels for mr cabbage? he'd be a happy man if you could.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 25 December 2003 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

beef prices are sky high here because of the atkins diet, this will likely cause the prices to fall. prions still represent somewhat shaky science. i thought this cow was going to be made into dog food.

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 25 December 2003 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

the us has two options:

option 1: sort out the husbandry and slaughter issues quickly, the price of beef goes up as costs rise. Damage to export lower as confidence maintained. a few farmers go out of business in and adapt or die type way.

option 2: they vacilate over doing anything hoping the problem goes away, it doesn't, the price of beef plummets, small and medium farms go under or have to restructure at great cost with almost no return on the cost of raising cattle. Exports cease due to bans and loss in confidence, a confidence wwhich never really recovers.

The UK went for option 2. I'm intrigued as to what the us.gov will do in election year. Bush has made a big deal of being the small farmer's man....

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 25 December 2003 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"small and medium farms go under" - they already have, Ed

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 26 December 2003 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

And back in the UK, someone dies from the human form of Mad Cow

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

This tragedy is magnified by the mental image of a half-man/half-cow hybrid goring someone to death and my subsequent horror and disgust with my insolent brain.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.yuksrus.com/madcow.gif

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh look, its Ann Coulter.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

it incubates forty fucking years! i could quit eating red meat tonight and die from it in my sixties! what says we all don't have it already?

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

Another one, potentially. I suppose it's just a coincidence that the Secretary of Agriculture resigned two days ago. Doing it the next day would have been too obvious.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago)

thank god it isn't mad turkey disease. imagine the ruin of thanksgiving!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago)

http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/westa/images/Thanksgiving/CrazyTurkey.gif

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Back when I was a kid, we didn't have Mad Cow scares until after Thanksgiving!

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago)

If there's ever a plague of Mad Soy, I'm good for dead.

― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Dammit! What am I going to do now with this beef spinal column in a baguette that I was all excited about for lunch?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://munkyking.com/ipw-web/b2/images/TOFU SERIES 6_2_01.jpg

Not exactly Mad Tofu but a family suffering from Sad Tofu disease.

― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago)

http://munkyking.com/ipw-web/b2/images/TOFU%20SERIES%206_2_01.jpg

Not exactly Mad Tofu but a family suffering from Sad Tofu disease

― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago)

HAHA, New Zealand has a new mascot! (second from right!)

― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Looks more like Creepy as Fuck Anthropomorphic Tofu to me.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago)

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