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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians

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To: Snowshoe who wrote (1220)1/15/2005 2:04:48 PM
From: E. Charters   of 1293
 
This is not going to stop. The US and most G7 countries have bad beef. Why? Because once it gets into the food chain, it is impossible to get out. This is because they do mechanical deboning which include broken chordata then they feed this offal to cattle. If it is not chlorinated then there will be prions in a certain percentage of it. One bad cow contaminates all the feed. This process, brought in in the 1980's, has emphasized the naturally occurring BSE in cattle. They will never get rid of it without a sea change in the way they handle feed. They either go to non animal protein feed, which will eliminate cross contamination, or find a way of non mechanical non chordata including slaughter. The other alternative is to find a way of killing the prions in chordata, and brain material. It may be that ozonation could do it. There is natural BSE that has cropped up in cattle since the 1500's by records. Cows that got the staggers were culled, and since historic feed methods were not country wide, the chances of pandemic outbreaks were low. With the advent of nationwide packing systems in the late 19th century, mechanical deboning systems, and usage of all parts of the cattle for food, this has changed. The die was set for one problem to become everyone's. It was only a matter of time.

The blame is also at the feet of the farmer, and rancher, as he he is living too low in margin, and will rarely co-operate completely. In addition some ranchers would find it hard to even find every cow in his herd if he had to eliminate them.
The idea that they can clean up by killing all the cows and starting over is perhaps naive. Where is the guarantee that one can get clean slate from anywhere else? I will bet most of the reason that Brazilian and Argentine cattle seems clean is that they don't test as stringently.

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