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Mad Cow Disease in Canada
Posted: 2003-05-20 08:32pm
by fgalkin
http://www.msnbc.com/news/915987.asp#BODY
First case in North America in over a decade.
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
Posted: 2003-05-20 08:36pm
by neoolong
Hmm. I wonder where it came from this time.
Posted: 2003-05-20 08:36pm
by Sea Skimmer
It appears to be in precisely one cow, good news. If no more turn up then Canada won't have to go about slaughtering and burning every infected herd, possibly infected herd and everything else within 10 miles of them.
Posted: 2003-05-20 08:51pm
by Montcalm
Another thing to fuel all the Anti-Canada assholes in the US,its wierd that McDonald do not want Canadian beef now,especialy when 90% of what is in their Big Mac is of unknown origin.
Posted: 2003-05-20 08:54pm
by Ted
The Americans have blocked all Canadian beef into the US.
In other news, the CDN dollar is over 74 cents US now.
Posted: 2003-05-20 09:21pm
by Wicked Pilot
There are already enough crazy people in America, we don't need anything mad from Canada.
Posted: 2003-05-20 10:46pm
by Montcalm
Something i`d like to know,when in GB they had many cows with the disease the world panicked, now one cow in Canada has been diagnosed with it the US panic and stop all Canadian beef deliveries to the US,well i`m wondering if there were cows suffering from mad cow disease in the US would the American government say something or hide it and let the meat go through.
Posted: 2003-05-21 08:41am
by Admiral Valdemar
Montcalm wrote:Something i`d like to know,when in GB they had many cows with the disease the world panicked, now one cow in Canada has been diagnosed with it the US panic and stop all Canadian beef deliveries to the US,well i`m wondering if there were cows suffering from mad cow disease in the US would the American government say something or hide it and let the meat go through.
As soon as someone caught onto the fact that US exported beef had the Mad Cow prion in it, they would get banned just as much as any other nation. CJD is not something you want to get from a burger.
Posted: 2003-05-21 09:16am
by Zoink
The U.S., Canada, and Mexico regularly swap cattle between countries. A mad cow in Canada could mean mad cows in the U.S. as well. The only requirement to ship a cow across the border is that its standing up.
When sending a shipment, the driver stops before the border, makes sure the cows are standing (usually by *any* means necessary) and gets rid of the ones that can't.