Guest guest Posted December 25, 2003 Report Share Posted December 25, 2003 Here's some additional interesting info on the situation. This sheds some light on the suspected cover-up of lax testing, etc. Spookie! Jeff PS: Sorry for the continued Off Topic discussion, but this is a huge event that we are witnessing. USDA refused to release mad cow records http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20031223-103657-3424r By Steve Mitchell United Press International Published 12/24/2003 12:50 PM View printer-friendly version WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The United States Department of Agriculture insisted the U.S. beef supply is safe Tuesday after announcing the first documented case of mad cow disease in the United States, but for six months the agency repeatedly refused to release its tests for mad cow to United Press International. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 25, 2003 Report Share Posted December 25, 2003 Notice how they keep saying " human food supply. " I just received an e-mail from Amy Greenebaum that quotes from a NY Times Article that cow parts are routinely fed to poultry and being processed for animal pet food. We have an epidemic just waiting to happen. Ron Koenig Bellevue RawSeattle , Jeff Rogers <jeff@s...> wrote: > Here's some additional interesting info on the situation. This sheds > some light on the suspected cover-up of lax testing, etc. Spookie! > > Jeff > > PS: Sorry for the continued Off Topic discussion, but this is a huge > event that we are witnessing. > > > USDA refused to release mad cow records > > http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20031223-103657-3424r Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 25, 2003 Report Share Posted December 25, 2003 I agree completely (re. the importance of this OT discussion). This is very scary. It just shows that we cannot trust our governmental agencies to protect us if money for the corporations might be at stake. Unfortunately, that is becoming the case more and more. Sue Jeff Rogers [jeff] Thursday, December 25, 2003 10:46 AM RawSeattle Re: [RawSeattle]OT: Mad cow disease Here's some additional interesting info on the situation. This sheds some light on the suspected cover-up of lax testing, etc. Spookie! Jeff PS: Sorry for the continued Off Topic discussion, but this is a huge event that we are witnessing. USDA refused to release mad cow records http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20031223-103657-3424r By Steve Mitchell United Press International Published 12/24/2003 12:50 PM View printer-friendly version WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The United States Department of Agriculture insisted the U.S. beef supply is safe Tuesday after announcing the first documented case of mad cow disease in the United States, but for six months the agency repeatedly refused to release its tests for mad cow to United Press International. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 25, 2003 Report Share Posted December 25, 2003 Oh, yes. Howard Lyman has talked about that, which is what motivated my husband to give up meat 7 years ago. Re. the pet food - and livestock/poultry feed - when I first heard Howard speak at an EarthSave potluck in 1996, I couldn't believe it at first. Why would they do something like that? Why would they take dead animals and grind them up and feed them to other (normally vegetarian) animals? As a former farmer and daughter of a farmer, I've always known that if you go out into the field in the morning and find one of your animals has died, you don't grind it up and feed it to the others, you bury it!! You don't know what it died from, you don't know how long it's been dead. It's just not smart. So the next day I looked on the label on our feed sack (we still had our daughter's geese then, before the coyotes ate them), and, sure enough, there it was, using some kind of euphemism. It's listed on pet food labels as " meat byproducts " , and other sanitized terms. But it includes not only " downer " animals, but also animals found dead in the field, " road kill " , and dead pets. Ever wonder what happens to dogs and cats that are euthanized at animal shelters, vets offices, etc.? When they're picked up for " rendering " , they are turned first into animal feed, second into fertilizer. Sick? YES!! Seattle Tilth, in its " city chickens " program, promotes an organic chicken feed supplier. I would expect that the feed would be a much cleaner product, utilizing the foods that the chickens are intended to eat, and would thus result in a safer chicken/egg for human consumption. So there are alternatives, but with competition as it is in the commercial marketplace, farmers are cutting corners and costs as much as they can, which is compromising the safety of our food supply. Sue Notice how they keep saying " human food supply. " I just received an e-mail from Amy Greenebaum that quotes from a NY Times Article that cow parts are routinely fed to poultry and being processed for animal pet food. We have an epidemic just waiting to happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 26, 2003 Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 Here's something to add to the bad news. My brother-in-law is a reproductive physiologist in animal husbandry. My sister told me that their family has not eaten beef in restaurants for years. Her husband says that when they butcher the fallen animal, they are not separating the spinal cord from the animal prior to the method of cutting across the animal with the blade passing over and being eposed to any contagion in the spinal cord, and then proceding to cut the meat. He says restaurants purchase a lot of this quality meat to keep down costs. I guess we could have cheerier talk on Christmas. I hope people are having a wonderful time at the Christmas potluck. I have to head out of town. Namaste! Merry Christmas! Janaki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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