On 23 Dec 2003, at 11:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A) Veneman did not appear to indicate any second thoughts about American
cattle eating animal byproducts.
B) Wonder what this will do to the US blood supply. They already exclude
people from donating blood who've lived for more than a certain amount of time in
England and other places that have had cases of mad cow disease. If there are
any significant number of cases here, what will they do?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1112561,00.html?=rss
"The infected cow identified yesterday was a Holstein which was tested because it was a "downer", unable to walk, when it arrived at a Washington state slaughterhouse. The meat from the cow was nevertheless sent to a processing plant.
Agriculture department investigators were yesterday urgently trying to track it down.
Ms Veneman said that only the "muscle cuts" had been sent for processing for human consumption and there was no record of the disease being transmitted through the meat. The brain and spinal column had been sent to a "rendering facility" elsewhere, but she did not specify how it had been used.
...
However, her assurances that the outbreak would be contained were questioned by public health activist, John Stauber. He called them "extremely disingenuous", and pointed out Ms Veneman was a former lobbyist for the cattle industry. "I suggest this cow is the tip of an invisible iceberg," Mr Stauber, co-author of a book about the threat of the disease, told CNN last night. "My presumption is mad cow disease is spread throughout North America at some level, but because our testing programme is so inadequate we have not identified it."
He said the US livestock industry, unlike its European counterparts, continued to practise "animal cannibalism"."
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