slashdot_commentator's Journal: Time for some more rejection - BSEs found in goat

Submitted title: Mad Cow Disease discovered in other animal species (Science,News)

The BBC reports that a French goat has tested positive for mad cow disease - the first animal in the world other than a cow to have bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The European Commission says further testing will be done to see if the incidence is an isolated one.

You can thank the animal rendering industry for that one. Time to change to a vegetarian diet?

Hmm

[nizo]

When I read your subject line I at first thought, "how did the engineering students get into a goat?" I keep trying to become a vegatarian, but animals just taste so good :-( My favorite meat bumpersticker is "If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?" Yep just a bunch of rambling useless statements here, nothing much else to say.

Re:Hmm

[niteice]

Good luck, AC.

Re:Hmm

[slashdot_commentator]

Damn! They won't let me mod things in my own journal!

assessing risks

[geoswan]

The BBC reports that a French goat has tested positive for mad cow disease - the first animal in the world other than a cow to have bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

The Japanese test each and every cow for BSE. I don't know whether there tests are definitive. But I know that they cost $20 USD per cow.

Canadian ranchers may call me a traitor. But I would like to see Canada follow suit.

Ralph Klein, the Premier of Alberta, the province where all the Canadian cows that have been found to have

Re:assessing risks

[slashdot_commentator]

The Japanese test each and every cow for BSE. I don't know whether there tests are definitive. But I know that they cost $20 USD per cow.

Pathetic. It wouldn't increase the cost by a $0.01 per pound. Although reconfiguring the slaughterhouses to separate the brain/vertebrae organs and then not rendering it may be a significant cost. And now since they're finding prions in all sections of meat, they may have to abandon the ruminants industry. That, I suspect, is what is driving rancher industry policy

curious...

[slashdot_commentator]

(And testing out the new sig)

How did you guys find my entry? You actually track my posts?

Fuckwits

[redwolfoz]

You'd think that the moron corporations that run meat industries would have learned from the scare in the UK. Not a chance, they still happily feed infected beasties to healthy beasties and if they can still walk they get fed to people.

The overhead for doing the right thing and clearing every animal is too great for the US market. It's much easier to dump suspect meat on an overseas buyer and just change the country of origin label, to Australia in one case.