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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: hawk220 on May 20, 2003, 04:05:17 PM
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oh man, I hope this is an isolated case.. The UK went thru some really evil toejam with their outbreak and if its made its way to Canada and the US beef producing states like Texas and such it would be some seriously bad ju-ju.
Mad cow disease reported in Canada
U.S. temporarily bans Canadian beef
Tuesday, May 20, 2003 Posted: 3:44 PM EDT (1944 GMT)
EDMONTON, Canada (CNN) -- Canadian agriculture officials said Tuesday a cow slaughtered in Alberta in January tested positive for mad cow disease. It is the country's first case in 10 years.
The 8-year-old cow was tested and killed in January after showing signs of illness, Canadian agriculture officials said. Tests at a laboratory in the United Kingdom on Tuesday confirmed signs of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease. Samples from the cow tested positive for BSE last week, officials said. Canadian officials sent samples to the United Kingdom to confirm the test.
Health officials said they think they have limited the spread of the disease. The meat from the cow was declared unfit for consumption, was kept from other meat bound for packing plants and stores, and the rendered byproduct was not mixed with byproduct from other cows, Canadian officials said.
As a precautionary measure, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it is temporarily banning Canadian beef. Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman said the case appears isolated and that the risk to human health and of animal transmission is likely very low.
Veneman said she sent a technical team to Canada to investigate.
The cow attracted attention at the slaughterhouse because it looked ill, said Debbie Barr, a veterinarian with Canada's food inspection agency. The animal was killed, declared unfit for consumption and samples were taken for testing, she said.
At a press conference in Edmonton, health officials said tests were delayed because the cow, having been killed and its flesh kept from either the human or animal food chain, was not a priority.
The cow's herd has been quarantined and health officials said they are investigating the cow's history. Barr said the cow has spent the last three years on a farm in northern Alberta, a western Canadian province. Disease control measures have been put in place, according to Canadian health authorities.
BSE is a progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system of cattle.
Canada's first case of mad cow disease appeared in 1993, in a beef cow imported from Britain in 1987. The animal carcass and the herd that cow came from were destroyed and additional measures were taken immediately by the federal government to deal with any risk that Canadian cattle might have been affected.
Alberta is home to 42 percent of Canada's 13.7 million cattle. Canada exports beef to the United States, Mexico, Japan and South Korea.
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Time to short some McDonalds stock.
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Oh, I thought you meant Cretin.
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Lies!
Those cows Croak and Ribbit!
:D :D
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very very scary news. Hope they can contain it..but I really hope they get drastic about whipeing it out. No word that I saw of how this cow ended up with it.
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A lot of scared folks here for sure. We have family here with 2500+ head of cattle, and they are very worried.
I'm with Pongo though, and so are my family: whatever it takes to be 110% sure they wipe it out must be done.
My father remembers last time this happened in Canada on a major scale. They brought in the Army with surplus .303 rifles and millions of rounds of ammo to put down the herds of cattle. Fields were lined with thousands of dead cow bodies. Pretty sick to think about.
At least with the USA closing the border on beef we'll enjoy some dirt cheap prices on steak for a while, I'll fill my freezers to help support the local farmers too.:cool:
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Gman, when did this happen in Canada before? They don't teach us a great deal of Canadian history on this side of the border.
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If they stopped feeding cows and sheep to cows this crap would stop.
Kinda like when they stopped them cannibals from eatin brains, they stopped getting a form of the same disease.
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You are thinking of the disease called kuru..
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Texas allready have mad cow disease :) guess what :) lol
(duck down runnig away looking back for evil Grunherz starting to flame :) )
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I forget when it happend last time - before my time I think.
There was a scare a couple years back where a bull from the UK was thought to have Mad Cow. The farmer paid big bucks for it and tried to fight having the thing killed. In the end the animal was destroyed.
The disease is thought to be contained and the meat from the cow was not used for anything but testing.
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BSE is called JCB in France. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case in several other places.
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Hawk, it was in the 1960's I believe, I'm getting my father to scan in some pictures he took and I'll post them up.
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Did the Gov. in England compensate the cattle raisers when the herds were wiped out?
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Yes, I believe so. They definitely did with the recent foot and mouth outbreak because a friend of mine's family still owns a farm. They had to destroy all their livestock and were compensated.
Many farmers welcomed the foot and mouth outbreak - they could escape a not very profitable industry and use the compensation money.
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Originally posted by Lizard3
If they stopped feeding cows and sheep to cows this crap would stop.
In the 1990's Canada and the US banned the practice of feeding rendered products from ruminants (such as cattle) back to other ruminants. I suspect they are investigating this case to make sure this didn't happen.
Did the Gov. in England compensate the cattle raisers when the herds were wiped out?
They were paid market price. But many were still devastated because their entire herd was wiped out and they could no longer operate their farm -- many of which had been handed down through generations.
BSE is called JCB in France. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case in several other places.
A JCB is a type of backhoe. The nickname "JCB disease" comes from the accusation that French farmers would kill and quickly bury any animal suspected of having BSE in order to hide the evidence so that their entire herd would not be eradicated.
Canada and the US have a very active surveillance program for BSE and there is no evidence that this practice occurs in these countries.