It’s a good thing I don’t eat a lot of beef! After all Europe went through, AND admitting that some of the offending animal may have reached processing plants, US officials still insist the food chain is safe. Tell that to the 100+ people who died…
Time to turn the grilling chicken! 
-Tom
It will be interesting to see how they handle this. The US were very quick to ban all Canadian beef after one isolated case of Mad Cow was found in Alberta in early Summer. They still have not lifted the ban, which has devestated the beef industry here in Canada. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, I wonder what the reaction will be.
I’m waiting too.
With all I’ve learned about the meat-processing industry in the US, I’m not confident about the safety of meat BEFORE the announcement!
Now with this, and officials admitting the infected meat made it into the food supply chain. Well, it makes one wonder…
Oh great–my Christmas menu:
Corned beef for Xmas eve
Rare roast for Xmas
It’s been nice knowing you all 
Whats the quick hurry. Like I stated in other thread, CDJ Prions (Human Mad Cow) can be domant for 30 years (the record).
It’s never too late to become a vegetarian and do something good for yourself, animals, and the planet.
As far as Mad Cow in the US, that was just a matter of time . . .
Ummm, wasn’t there a recent problem with scallions from Mexico causing food poisoning? And before that mushrooms? Oh yeah, then there was a major outbreak due to lettuce.
Tongue-in-cheek of course, but you gotta follow basic sanitary rules. Wash your hands, cutting surfaces, food, preparation tools, use different preparation surfaces for meat and vegetables, etc, etc, etc.
And risk getting mad soybean disease?
Actually I prefer the vegetarian versions of meat dishes. With companies like Boca and Quorn, there’s no reason to keep the antiquated slaughterhouse process around anymore. Maybe now that a little more self-interest is thrown into the mix, the industry will start to subside.
That is not to dismis the seriousness of the actual problem, just that I need to keep a laugh handy at the moment… christmas with an exploding tr\hree year old is scarey enough! LOL!.. (sigh)
Your tree and your three year old both exploded? I assume one had a hand in the other’s demise…
Robin
LOL! Actually, it was only the three year-old human-type that exploded. I was wise enough to keep the tree out of his reach.
Let me use this opportunity to wish more thought and less fertility to people who don’t want to take the responsibility of raising their own children!! 
(anyone need something pressed?.. I’m still steaming, LOL!)… oh, and make sure those teeth are well brushed, in case they latch onto your flesh!!! (yarrghhh!) 
Hi,
I talked to my Dad yesterday, he lives in the next town over from Chealis, where the mad cow was found. When I was up there last summer, he pointed the knacker out, as one that slaughters sick cows! Guess it caught up with the company!
Best become a vegie-eater! Jon
Oh my gosh, do you really think mad cow was why the US banned Canadian beef?
There were two things, I would be willing to bet good money. First, Canada wouldn’t back action in Iraq. That was going to have consequences for US:Canada relations. Second, Japan threatened major trade restrictions on US imported beef if the US couldn’t guarantee that it did NOT import any beef from Canada. Japan has more than 4 times the population of Canada, so I bet the US figured, well, lose a market of 127 million, versus lose a market of 30 million . . . the math is easy. Mad cow was an easy scapegoat, as it were.
In my opinion.
Stuart
did this company’s stock rise.
CAL-MAINE FOODS (NasdaqNM:CALM)
it went from under 10 dollars to over 40 dollars in just a few weeks.
we should take a look at who is investing in it over the past month.
I second this, but don’t wish to be a tofu-thumper, so to speak. At the very least, if you can’t do without meat, as many can’t, try to stick with the more humanely raised and slaughtered, healthy food fed, organic type of animals. I know it costs more, but it seems so worth it.
Y’know, it occurs to me that the USA needs a new national symbol. To replace the fierce, high-soaring Eagle, I nominate Chicken Little.
Terrorists crash a plane into a building in New York City - every backwater town in the flyover states now needs a homeland security officer.
Two anthrax spores show up in Florida - and the people of Backsideofnowhere, Arkansas suddenly become afraid to open their mail.
One cow turns up with MCD in the far northwesten corner of the country - and all over the country millions of chittering, skittering idiots are suddenly foreswearing beef.
Whatever happened to PERSPECTIVE???
Repeat after me: “The sky is NOT falling.”…“The sky is NOT falling.”…“The sky is NOT falling.”…“The sky is NOT falling.”…“The sky is NOT falling.”…“The sky is NOT falling.”…“The sky is NOT falling.”…“The sky is NOT falling.”…
And then there’s our "friends’ in Tacoland. Mexico hides behind NAFTA to steal million of American jobs and to ship salmonella-laden strawberries in by the semitrailer load, but closes off beef imports after said SINGLE SICK COW!!! Sure, I believe that. I also believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Propping up their own beef ranchers had nothing to do with it.
Pull the other one - it has bells on it.
And then, of course there’s our European and Chinese ‘friends’ weeping their hypocritical eyes out over a steel tariff but not the least bit worried about all of their protective hurdles.
I had two hamburgers for supper - rare. There’re so many things that can kill me that I refuse to skitter under the nearest rock over what must rank no higher than number four million or so.
Of course, maybe I SHOULD change to mutton. This country has so many SHEEP that the price should go way down.
- Terrorists crash a plane into a building in New York City - every backwater town in the flyover states now needs a homeland security officer.
I agree with you that the sky is not falling. However, the homeland security officer is basicly what FEMA has had in place for many years. They now just have a new job description Posotive note is that some Towns, Villages, etc. get a Federal boost on the old Public Safety fund for this one to help aquire new or decent equipment.
Hmmmm, my cattle are fed the way cattle were designed to be fed- they graze pastures/fed hay we grew this summer. The beef tastes completely different and way better than ANY that can be bought in the grocery store.
Yeah, it’s definately time to kill a beef.
While I rarely chitter, I almost certainly skitter…but even with that being so, I foreswore beef over a decade ago…nothing new.