Mad Cow Disease In OK

[SeriouslySearching]

I do know a bit about the testing. A friend retired from having a domestic elk and buffalo business. He sold some of his herd at the exclusive wild animal auction. His prize bull, he purchased for $10,000. His herd was carefully innoculated. I know as we helped him take the calves through the multitude of gates and chutes to do it. He allowed hunters to shoot from the truck only one. He always informed them they could not take the head. It must stay there. They could have the rack, but the head was sent immediately to CSU to have the brain autopsied and tested for the disease, by Colorado law.

The US needs to implement the ID system that follows cattle from cradle to grave. I believe it's implemented in Canada. I know that cattle coming into here are shipped with in a "sealed" trailer. We were eating with a friend one day and he got the call to come back to his feed lot as the shipment arrived and the vet was on the way as well as the brand inspector. The seal could only be broken and the cattle removed under this condition. Massive paperwork always followed.

This story started they think with elk, IIRC. I will have to check on that.

They need to have checks and balances on the cattle industry which are as strictly monitored. This should have happened years and years ago, too.

 

[Kat]

Didn't want to start a new thread. This case is in CA.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/...ad-cow-disease-in-california/?test=latestnews

USDA confirms new case of mad cow disease in California


Published April 24, 2012

FoxNews.com

According to a statement released by USDA Chief Veterinary Officer John Clifford, the cow had not entered the food supply and poses no risk to human health. Clifford said the animal’s carcass is being held at a rendering facility and will be destroyed.

 

[wfgodot]

Didn't want to start a new thread. This case is in CA.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/...ad-cow-disease-in-california/?test=latestnews

USDA confirms new case of mad cow disease in California


Published April 24, 2012

FoxNews.com

Holy crow! Maybe it needs a new thread as this Okie, after seeing Mad Cow Disease in OK pop up on New Posts, just thanked his God that he had chosen to eat Long John Silver's tonight instead of beef-related products. I thought of starting one this afternoon when I saw the story on Twitter but it's relatively a minor thing and "poses no risk." We'll see. If they find more - new thread.

 

[Jacie Estes]

oooooooh, scary scary. this is why i stopped eating ground meat years ago.. who knows what's in that stuff. some actual meat, and a whole lot of other stuff. and after the last mad cow scare a while back, our beloved govt tells us,, 'everyone calm down, it's perfectly safe!' YEAH right. and fast food?? ...no freaking way.
the only red meat i consume is what i can SEE and inspect for myself,, that is raised on a small (preferably local) farm, where they treat their animals with respect and don't force them to cannibalize each other and whatnot. you mess with mother nature too much, she's gonna come back to bite you...!

We will only eat buffalo and elk, knowing where the buffalo was raised or that the elk was tested by the game processor.

 

[SallyLu]

Scarey stuff. Depending on which news article I read the cow was at a rendering plant and was randomly tested or was tested prior to being sent to one and never got there. Here is what a rendering plant does:


http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-rendering-plant.htm

Mods, I can't seem to copy a third to abide by rules so please delete if this is against TOS.


Here is another news article:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/25/health/california-mad-cow/?hpt=wo_c2

In 2010, South Korea imported 125,000 tons of U.S. beef, a 97% increase from the year before, the United States Department of Agriculture said.

The carcass was at a Baker Commodities Inc. rendering facility in Hanford, California, according to Executive Vice President Dennis Luckey.
The company renders animal byproducts and had randomly selected the animal for testing last Wednesday, he said.
"We are in the business of removing dead animals from dairies in the Central Valley," he told CNN in a telephone interview. "As part of that program, we participate in the BSE surveillance program."

The sample was sent to UC Davis for initial testing, which came back inconclusive. It was then sent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's laboratory in Ames, Iowa, where it tested positive, the agency said.
The carcass was in quarantine Tuesday night. "We're waiting now for USDA to tell us how to dispose of it," Luckey said.

 

[badhorsie]

Since our outbreak, I am very fussy about what meat I feed my family. I am wondering whether they are taking a look at the herd where the infected cow came from.
If finances mean that you need to eat cheap meat then you need to either buy meat from a known, responsible source or stop eating beef.
I have only ever nursed one person with CJD, she was a butcher's wife.