Mad Cow Disease in Canada

Post by **fgalkin** » 2003-05-20 08:32pm

http://www.msnbc.com/news/915987.asp#BODY

First case in North America in over a decade.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-05-20 08:36pm

Hmm. I wonder where it came from this time.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-05-20 08:36pm

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.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-05-20 08:51pm

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.

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2003-05-20 08:54pm

The Americans have blocked all Canadian beef into the US.

In other news, the CDN dollar is over 74 cents US now.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-05-20 09:21pm

There are already enough crazy people in America, we don't need anything mad from Canada.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-05-20 10:46pm

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.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-05-21 08:41am

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.

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-05-21 09:16am

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.