So China will be buying even more American beef. Stock up now, prices are going to go stratospheric if that happens.

 

Or

BTW - this is exactly the reason we insist on any beef product at a restaurant be cooked "well done" or as my DW puts it when asked how she wants her steak done - "immolated". Hilarity usually follows....

 

Reason #3,839 to buy your meat, beef or otherwise, locally. Or better yet raise it yourself.

 

Just check what they're being raised on. It was the feed that probably did in Britain's cows and eventually the people who ate them. The feed was supplemented with meat and bone meal from other animals, and it would only have taken a scrapies-infected sheep or two to start an epidemic from that..

 

Ain't gonna work well when there already ain't enough chikin...unless chikin is fake vegan chicken, in which case you can have my share.

 

This is why I never buy that 5 or 7 country beef at the store. You know could be from US, Canada, Argentina, Brazil....

My question is were they feeding cows and chickens to cows as in England? Or is it "Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease that affects deer, elk, reindeer, sika deer and moose. It has been found in some areas of North America" on the move south.

 

The wild game just seem to get it around here. Are they eating their dead friends brains out of sight of us? I thought Brazil and Argentina grass fed their beef unlike the fed lot ones here and in the US.

 

Why is Mad Cow Disease called that, and not something else?

Because PMS was already taken.

Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week, folks.

 

 

California flu, mad cow disease …. You’re just a little ray of sunshine.

 

The more you know, the more likely you'll stay alive.

 

The study(s) I read says the prions are also found in the muscle. Now I watch the critters for a while to make sure they aren't acting funny or sickly before I shoot them.

 

Yes, I don't believe they have ever identified mad cow prions in bovine muscle (although I haven't researched that lately), but the CWD ones in deer have been.

Prions in skeletal muscles of deer with chronic wasting disease

 

Yes, I don't believe they have ever identified mad cow prions in bovine muscle..

Won't matter if it All (spinal cord / brain, etc) gets ground up with muscle in 'mechanically separate / recovered' meat products (ground / sausage, etc)

The only 'Documentary' that has ever truly freaked me Out - was the PBS / Nova one, way back, on BSE / CJD, there.. Absolutely Terrifying, cuz ya can't "kill" something that's Not Living...

Can't Find the NOVA-one I saw, but this BBC one is pretty Yeesh, as well...

There's also This (possible compounding issue..) COVID-19 RNA Based Vaccines and the Risk of Prion Disease (scivisionpub.com)

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Yet another reason I'm glad that I raise my own.

 

Who knows. There has been no diagnosed transmission from cervids to humans or other animals as yet, but mad cow disease could take a decade or even two to show effects in humans and CWD already has developed some variant strains.

Exposure Risk of Chronic Wasting Disease in Humans

 

Ban meat!!!! Part of the plan. Wake up masses.

 

The Jab was the mark of the beast.

 

Buy local and avoid the angst.

 

Just a heads up. Most of the canned corned beef that I see is a product of Brazil. The canned corned beef that Aldi's carries is a product of Denmark. Being beef the stuff is expensive, much more so than Spam for cans the same size, but I do stock some of it and will be more careful of what I'm getting now.

 

Ugh, I bought some corned beef after many years hiatus. I still don't like it but can tolerate hash and an occasional sandwich. It is a product of Brazil.

The thing with prions, it is supposedly an organic protein but not destroyed with heat or decay. How is it that stomach acids do not obliterate it and it can take years to affect a person? None of these questions have ever been answered well in any of my research. Things written like " a protein that triggers malformation". A protein is normally affected by heat, acid and decay. I really wonder.

Anyhoo, another example of our world wide economy biting us. Locally grown, two year old plus beef is a very good idea.

 

The thing with prions, it is supposedly an organic protein but not destroyed with heat or decay. How is it that stomach acids do not obliterate it and it can take years to affect a person? None of these questions have ever been answered well in any of my research. Things written like " a protein that triggers malformation". A protein is normally affected by heat, acid and decay. I really wonder.

You're not the only one puzzled. Prions contradict everything we thought we knew about disease, life, death, and reproduction. The things are fascinating. And dangerous.

 

I think when mad cow was first recognized in Britain was indeed the only time much testing was done. At some point, they also analyzed the genetics of those affected, and I believe they identified a gene where one variant resulted in onset of symptoms relatively quickly, within a year or so, but with another variant it could be 1 to 2 decades or longer.

No one thinks CJD when looking at dementia in other times and places, and with such a variable lag time and an international food supply, pinning down a source can be difficult.

 

There is a lot of beef coming to the US from Brazil. Tons of it. No mention of slowing it down.

 

So ours goes to China, and we get Brazil's.
Gotta love that globalization thing, right?

 

It takes balls to eat balls.

 

That's really concerning. Is there any information about how it got there and what steps are being taken to prevent it from spreading?

 

From here on out, expect them to keep pushing the reasons for you not to eat meat or chicken. Either voluntarily or forcibly. They will be eating it, but you cannot.