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I have not seen anyone start talking on the subject in the manner that I have been waiting to see, so I guess I have to start it.
I have read some information that seems to have disappeared in the new updates that all these news sites have. I am having trouble finding my sources now, but that may be from staying up all night with Karen trying to make the baby happy in her new home. [img]graemlins/yawn.gif[/img]
The article said that it had been considered by the "big guys" in Washington to place a ban on any cow being used for food if that cow was called a "downer". A downer was what they termed any cow that could not walk itself to the slaughter. The bill was not passed. Still, the people that work in those areas seem to keep records of who the downers are. At least that much is being done.
Another problem is where the government is trying to assure people that you cannot get sick from the muscles...that only the brain and spinal column, including the nerves are infectuous. But there is one scientist in this country trying to warn people of the danger of making that assumption and he is also saying that every cow could be tested before killing that would only increase the cost of beef a few cents. He swears that there are safer ways to go about doing things that the other countries have already discovered who have suffered similar problems,,,but of course our government swears it is unnecessary and will not consider this one man's views.
Well, I think the guy is right. If another country has found a better way to deal with this problem...we need to learn it. If there is one man in the US that is using his research to prove that the disease or a variant of the disease is possibly in the muscles...then we should give him time to talk, and consider his words instead of full-out ignoring his ideas.
I mean come on...we had to send the brain and spinal cord to Europe to be tested for confirmation of the disease...why the hell do we not have the capability here? Because our govt. thinks we are the best and smartest at everything already, with no room to learn.
By the way...just to stress my point with a good example. And I hope everybody has read down this far...Only a few years ago did America consider it safe to trim off any mold that might be on a stick of cheese and eat the unmolded part...that it was safe. Within the last few years, nutritionalists are now learning in the classroom that if the cheese is bad enough to have mold on any part of the block...the whole thing should be thrown out. The whole piece is molded and the part you see is just where the mold is highly consentrated. People to this day still do not know this, as my wife had to teach it to a group of ladies at a Pampered Chef party she was invited to attend, and the hostess was using cheese that had a spec of mold on it, and thought it was safe to use the apparently unmolded part in a cooking example of her product.
In other words, what has been proven safe in today's society may be proven hazardous in tomorrow's, when somebody discovers it. Will we listen?
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