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I have no doubt that there is a lot of " mad cow " in the USA.

 

If they found it, it was by accident as the only " testing " that is going on is

designed to NOT find it.

 

Now the spin and BS machine will swing into action and they will try and " spin "

this away too.

( spin is just a more " neutral " descriptive term for lieing, you didn't think

spin meant truth did you).

 

What kind of world do we live in where we accept lies and then give it a nice

word to take away the taint of what it really is.

 

This is happening all around the world. You better wake up and quit accepting

this kind of behaviour from governments and elected officials whether they are

called liberal, conservative, democratic, socialist, or whatever. Hell they

don't care what they are called as long as they can pull the wool over your

eyes.

 

If I owned a bank, a large corporation, or some mega money entity I probably

would be on the same bandwagon as the neocons, but I don't and i don't think

most of you do either.

 

If you don't then I think you should be questioning why you believe in something

that is against your own self interests and what load of spin and convoluted

thinking did it take to get you to believe that by doing the " right thing " it

was " against yourself " and " for the mega buck corporations " .

 

Frank

 

 

 

 

Wayne Fugitt

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 22:31:40 -0500

[MC_USA] Screened U.S. Animal Positive for Mad Cow

 

Hot off the press. One hour old. No matter, we knew it already. ( One little

COW ? Why Worry )

 

 

Screened U.S. Animal Positive for Mad Cow

 

Jun 25, 9:31 PM (ET)

 

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) - An animal in the United States tested positive in a

preliminary screening test for mad cow disease, Agriculture Department officials

said Friday.

 

John Clifford, deputy administrator of USDA veterinary services, said officials

learned of the " inconclusive " test result at 5:30 p.m. Friday. The carcass is

being sent to USDA National Veterinary Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, for additional

tests. Results are expected in 4 to 7 days.

 

Clifford declined to identify the animal or its location until testing is

complete, noting that it's " very likely " final testing could turn up negative.

 

" The animal in question didn't enter the food chain, " he said. " If positive,

we'll provide additional information on the animal and origins. "

 

If the animal tests positive, it would be the second case of mad cow discovered

in the United States. In December, a single Holstein on a Washington state farm

was found to have the disease, prompting some countries such as Japan and South

Korea to temporarily ban imports of U.S. beef.

 

The Agriculture Department this month expanded national testing for the disease

in response to that mad cow scare, leading to Friday's first " inconclusive "

reading in the preliminary test, officials said. More than 7,000 animals so far

have been tested under the program, which seeks to check about 220,000 animals

over the next year to 18 months.

 

The announcement came late Friday and officials sought to downplay the potential

gravity of the preliminary test, which they said wasn't unexpected given the

test's sensitivity. The United States' beef trading partners had been notified

and the company was given earlier notice, Clifford said.

 

" The inconclusive result does not mean we have found another case of BSE in this

country, " Clifford said. " Inconclusive results are a normal component of most

screening tests, which are designed to be extremely sensitive so they will

detect any sample that could possibly be positive. "

 

" The USDA remains confident in the safety of the food supply, " Clifford said.

 

Mad cow disease - known also as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE - eats

holes in the brains of cattle. It sprang up in Britain in 1986 and spread

through countries in Europe and Asia, prompting massive destruction of herds and

decimating the European beef industry.

 

A form of mad cow disease can be contracted by humans if they eat infected beef

or nerve tissue, and possibly through blood transfusions. Variant

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of mad cow disease, so far has killed

100 people in Britain and elsewhere, including a Florida woman this week who was

believed to have contracted the disease in England.

 

The government last year conducted mad cow tests on tissues from 20,543 animals,

virtually all of them cattle that could not stand or walk and had to be dragged

to slaughter. After the nation's first case in December, the Agriculture

Department initially doubled the number of animals to be tested this year to

40,000.

 

With many foreign governments still reluctant to ease bans on U.S. beef, the

testing program was expanded at a cost of $70 million to include as many as

220,000 slaughtered animals, following recommendations from an international

scientific review panel. About 35 million head of cattle are slaughtered each

year in the United States.

 

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Associated Press Writer Ira Dreyfuss contributed to this report.

 

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