We can no longer "Blame Canada"
As it turns out, the USDA confirmed what was suspected...the cow was not an import. It was native to the US and did have mad cow disease. Normally I think I'd post more of a reaction...but I'm still kinda sad about it. It's a big deal, and the g'vt is still saying "everything is fine here, how are you?" Bleh.
posted by Cuteasaurus @ 10:16 AM
2 Comments:
At July 1, 2005 at 11:51 PM,
Unknown said…
Mad Cow may be dangerous, but from what I've heard there was no danger of contaminating the food supply. The gov't should be allowed to minimize undue panic.
At July 5, 2005 at 9:40 AM,
Cuteasaurus said…
This cow may not be in the food supply, but the fact that mad cow disease is native (as ppl have suspected, but the gvt has said is impossible) is BIG news. And, when you consider that many things that shouldn't be in the feed supply are (like cow blood), you'd be right to be upset. Am I still going to eat beef? Of course. But, to say that "everything is fine here" is a correct gvt response is just irresponsible. The "panic" is not only related to it getting into the food supply since that would be a short-sighted concern. The problem is that now we KNOW cows have it and that testing a couple hundred thousand cows a year should'nt be accepted as good enough. There should be outrage at simply the fact that it took a YEAR to decide to retest this cow with an inconclusive (yet deemed negative with anamolies) test. I can refer anyone who is interested to a variety of good readings and/or send you a paper I wrote about the differences between the tests and which ones are better, etc.
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