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To: elmatador who wrote (28607)	2/10/2003 1:58:14 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<They feed them ground up carcasses, fish meal, bone meal and soybeans feedstock.> Not now. That's what got Mad Cow Disease on the rampage and why blood transfusion services won't accept blood from me, or our family = we lived in Britain during 1986. They are scared of prions lurking in our blood. Perhaps still fish meal and soybeans. I don't know what they use. Mqurice

To: elmatador who wrote (28607)	2/10/2003 7:34:10 AM
From: Louis V. Lambrecht	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Uuuhhh? Why the meat isn't good: They didn't feed grass to the cattle. They feed them ground up carcasses, fish meal, bone meal and soybeans feedstock. There has been a meat problem in Belgium, revealed by the British mad cow disease. Animal carcasses have been banned and the stock has been destroyed. 10 or 15 years ago. Further, an identification chain has been put in place, tracing the individual cattle from birth to retail: when you buy a piece of meat, the origin and the animal can be identified by reading the price tag. Controls have been set up, lab tests are made all along the chain. The Belgian system is exemplative and leave very few room to fraud. Traceability is less efficient with imported meat as, obviously, Belgian veterinary inspection has no authority in foreign states. If Belgium has been figer pointed, it is because the controls have been efficient. (Read a while ago that there is no mad cow disease in the US, cause the 17 tests made in 2002 all were negative. SEVENTEEN! Belgium make more than 17 tests a WEEK on a 30 times smaller market). Check your info, elmat, obviously you haven't been over here for a long time.