Guest guest Posted April 12, 2004 Report Share Posted April 12, 2004 Can you only get CJD from cows / beef? I realize it's called Mad Cow Disease also, but was wondering if any other meats carried that. Sherri My family webpage: http://www.xanga.com/skin.asp?user=SherriB Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at: http://bookcrossing.com/friend/Sherri5762 Join Cyber Friends Café Cyber_Friends_Cafe/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 12, 2004 Report Share Posted April 12, 2004 Well, you can definitely get it from eating the brains of humans who are infected; that's how the cannibals in New Guinea had it. Sounds gross, but very true. It came into cow population, I understand, due to cows being fed rendered sheep. (Eeew!) So eating the brains or blood of an infected sheep is probly a good way to get it. Sherri5762 wrote: Can you only get CJD from cows / beef? I realize it's called Mad Cow Disease also, but was wondering if any other meats carried that. Sherri My family webpage: http://www.xanga.com/skin.asp?user=SherriB Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at: http://bookcrossing.com/friend/Sherri5762 Join Cyber Friends Café Cyber_Friends_Cafe/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 12, 2004 Report Share Posted April 12, 2004 There is a law now (1997) that forbids feeding cattle food made out of other cows, but they can still feed this sort of " food " to chickens, then feed the chicken bi-products or waste products back to cattle... so in a round about way the cattle are still exposed in their food chain. Cows and chickens are vegetarians and should not be fed feed that contains animal bi-products. There is a good article written by Michael Pollan in the April/May2004 issue of Mother Earth News called 'Cattle Futures'. Here is a quote: " Many of us were surprised to learn that despite the FDA's 1997 ban on feeding cattle cattle meat and bone meal, feedlots continue to rear these herbivores as cannibals. When young, they routinely receive " milk replacement " made from bovine blood; later, their daily ration is apt to contain rendered cattle fat as well as feed made from ground up pigs and chickens --- pigs and chickens that may themselves have grown up on a diet of ground-up cows. But the grossest feedlot dish we read about in our newspapers over breakfast has to be " chicken litter " , the nasty stuff shoveled out of chicken houses --- bedding, feathers and overlooked chicken feed. Since chicken feed may contain the same bovine meat and bone meal that FDA rules prohibit in cattle feed, those rules are, in effect, all but guaranteed to break themselves. Oh yes, I forgot to mention one of the ingredients in chicken litter: chicken feces, which the US cattle industry regards as a source of protein. " BLEH! ~ pt ~ The foundation of druidic thought is the universal harmony of beings in perpetual realization. ~ Jean Markale ~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~~> , Sherri5762@a... wrote: > Can you only get CJD from cows / beef? I realize it's called Mad Cow Disease > also, but was wondering if any other meats carried that. > > Sherri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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