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Post by Mech on Jul 4, 2006 22:42:59 GMT -5
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Post by altitudelou on Jul 5, 2006 20:11:34 GMT -5
I'm so glad that neither myself or Tiff eat that factory raised, force fed slow elk, GACK !
We spend a little more money but we get wicked good homegrown beef from the local producers here in Maine, it's worth every penny too for the peace of mind knowing the beef has been raised on locally grown feed and not the mystery feed that comes in a sack and you don't know what's in it.
We just had a huge B-B-Q on Saturday, two 150 lb pigs and one half of a three year old black angus beef creature, all donated by our farming neighbors, we started cooking on Friday afternoon at noon and started serving on Saturday at 1:00 PM, oh my, talk about some good eating.
Anyway, you can't go wrong buying locally raised produce, beef, pork and chicken, your helping your own health as well as helping the local economy and your neighbors, it's a good thing all around.
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Post by Swamp Gas on Jul 5, 2006 20:20:59 GMT -5
Thetaloops and I are herbivores for 35 years.  Especially good for all sentient creatures and ZERO worries about Mad Cow. At Theta's b-day party Saturday, even the hard-core carnivores liked the Sunflower burgers. |
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Post by Mech on Jul 21, 2006 23:03:52 GMT -5
NOW IS THE TIME TO END ALL CATTLE CONSUMPTION....OR DIE.
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The Agriculture Department's mad cow disease testing will go down about 90 percent in August. Some consumer groups are upset about the cut.
Mad cow disease testing to decrease
U.S. currently tests 1,000 every day; it will drop to about 110 in Aug., upsetting some consumer advocates.
Libby Quaid / Associated Press
Cindy Chard-Bergstrom, Kansas State University microbiologist, checks for mad cow disease. Consumers Union advocates are testing every animal slaughtered.
WASHINGTON -- The Agriculture Department is cutting its tests for mad cow disease about 90 percent, drawing protests from consumer groups.
The current testing level -- 1,000 each day -- reflects the heightened concern that followed the discovery in December 2003 of mad cow disease in the United States.
Since then, tests have turned up two more cases of the disease, known medically as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. The government says there may be a handful of undetected cases.
"It's time that our surveillance efforts reflect what we now know is a very, very low level of BSE in the United States," Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said Thursday. Critics say now is not the time to scale back on the testing, which has cost the government an estimated $1 million per week.
Consumers Union advocates testing every animal slaughtered in the United States.
The current level of 1,000 tests each day represents about 1 percent of the 35 million cattle slaughtered annually in this country. Beginning around late August, the new level will be about 110 tests per day.
"If you do testing of 100 percent of your animals, any ones that test positive never go into the food chain," said Michael Hansen of Consumers Union. "That's in part why they do it in Europe, because they've seen animals that look perfectly fine, and they catch them just before they go to slaughter."
Johanns said testing has nothing to do with the safety of U.S. beef for consumers in the United States and abroad. From a food safety standpoint, the real key is removing at slaughter those cattle parts known to carry mad cow disease, Johanns said.
The brain-wasting disorder infected more than 180,000 cows and was blamed for more than 150 human deaths during a European outbreak that peaked in 1993.
Humans can get a related disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, by eating meat contaminated with mad cow disease.
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