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17th Case of Canadian origin BSE found

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Alberta cow tagged as Canada's 16th BSE case

Fri May 15, 2009 5:07pm EDT CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) -

A six-year-old dairy cow in the western province of Alberta has been confirmed as Canada's 16th case of mad cow disease since 2003, health officials said on Friday.

The animal tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. No part of the carcass entered the human or animal food system, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said.

The animal's birth farm has been identified, and an investigation is under way, the CFIA said.

"The age and location of the infected animal are consistent with previous cases detected in Canada," said the CFIA, which has blamed infected feed for most of the earlier cases of the disease.

Mad cow disease is believed to be spread when cattle eat protein rendered from the brains and spines of infected cattle or sheep. Canada banned that practice in 1997.

The CFIA tightened feed rules further in 2007 and said this should help eliminate the disease nationally within a decade, although it cautioned it still expected to discover the occasional new case.

Canada has been deemed a "controlled risk" country for mad cow disease by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) because of its surveillance and control measures.

The CFIA said the latest case is not expected to affect exports of cattle or beef.

(Reporting by Scott Haggett; editing by Rob Wilson)
 

Silver

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Well dang.... I knew I shouldn't have said anything about bse in that other post. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Well, I have been thinking that if our system is working we should be detecting another one any time now. So I guess everything is good in the Canadian beef world.
 

Sandhusker

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Silver said:
Well dang.... I knew I shouldn't have said anything about bse in that other post. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Well, I have been thinking that if our system is working we should be detecting another one any time now. So I guess everything is good in the Canadian beef world.

Which system? The original feed ban?
 

burnt

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Sandhusker said:
Silver said:
Well dang.... I knew I shouldn't have said anything about bse in that other post. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Well, I have been thinking that if our system is working we should be detecting another one any time now. So I guess everything is good in the Canadian beef world.

Which system? The original feed ban?

The irony of ironies - the "systemless" one questioning the one with a system that actually finds the cases that exist . . . . :roll: Should come as no surprise, I guess. :lol:

And the one without scruples :drink: :devil2: pointing at the one who has scruples. 8)
 
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burnt said:
Sandhusker said:
Silver said:
Well dang.... I knew I shouldn't have said anything about bse in that other post. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Well, I have been thinking that if our system is working we should be detecting another one any time now. So I guess everything is good in the Canadian beef world.

Which system? The original feed ban?

The irony of ironies - the "systemless" one questioning the one with a system that actually finds the cases the exist . . . . :roll: Should come as no surprise, I guess. :lol:

And the one without scruples :drink: :devil2: pointing at the one who has scruples. 8)

And how many do you not find :???: That end up in the food chain... :???:

Again this was another one that could have been imported into the US under the OTM guidelines.... :(
 

burnt

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Oldtimer said:
burnt said:
Sandhusker said:
Which system? The original feed ban?

The irony of ironies - the "systemless" one questioning the one with a system that actually finds the cases the exist . . . . :roll: Should come as no surprise, I guess. :lol:

And the one without scruples :drink: :devil2: pointing at the one who has scruples. 8)


And how many do you not find :???: That end up in the food chain... :???:

Again this was another one that could have been imported into the US under the OTM guidelines.... :(

And just exactly how many - no, wait a minute - just roughly - how many are you not finding and therefore feeding to your school kids in their school lunch programs

BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT LOOKING AT ALL ? BECAUSE YOUR COUNTRY, THE GREAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE A PROBLEM?
 

don

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ot just keep repeating the mantra: the usa does not have bse, the usa does not have bse....... there, now you feel better right? for an american to be gloating about canada finding a bse animal is ironic in the extreme. you guys are so afraid of traceback because you don't know what you got but some of it ain't pretty. if you judge the integrity of the usa by their bse program you're pretty low rent.
 
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burnt said:
Oldtimer said:
burnt said:
The irony of ironies - the "systemless" one questioning the one with a system that actually finds the cases the exist . . . . :roll: Should come as no surprise, I guess. :lol:

And the one without scruples :drink: :devil2: pointing at the one who has scruples. 8)


And how many do you not find :???: That end up in the food chain... :???:

Again this was another one that could have been imported into the US under the OTM guidelines.... :(

And just exactly how many - no, wait a minute - just roughly - how many are you not finding and therefore feeding to your school kids in their school lunch programs

BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT LOOKING AT ALL ? BECAUSE YOUR COUNTRY, THE GREAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE A PROBLEM?

But we don't need to import more in with a defective import policy thats supposed to keep them out- and a feedban that refuses to close the loopholes....
 

Sandhusker

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burnt said:
Sandhusker said:
Silver said:
Well dang.... I knew I shouldn't have said anything about bse in that other post. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Well, I have been thinking that if our system is working we should be detecting another one any time now. So I guess everything is good in the Canadian beef world.

Which system? The original feed ban?

The irony of ironies - the "systemless" one questioning the one with a system that actually finds the cases that exist . . . . :roll: Should come as no surprise, I guess. :lol:

And the one without scruples :drink: :devil2: pointing at the one who has scruples. 8)

That cow could of been sent to the US a year ago and would of been let through as healthy. She could of been slaughtered and her meat put in either of our food chains just months ago. Yet, we're told that you're "Catching them all". That is scruples?
 

burnt

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Sandhusker said:
burnt said:
Sandhusker said:
Which system? The original feed ban?

The irony of ironies - the "systemless" one questioning the one with a system that actually finds the cases that exist . . . . :roll: Should come as no surprise, I guess. :lol:

And the one without scruples :drink: :devil2: pointing at the one who has scruples. 8)

That cow could of been sent to the US a year ago and would of been let through as healthy. She could of been slaughtered and her meat put in either of our food chains just months ago. Yet, we're told that you're "Catching them all". That is scruples?

I would need to be shown the post where anyone claimed to be "catching them all".

Put it up or be proven to be a liar.

And you also seem to have a lot of difficulty in understanding that if you look, you find. If you don't look, you don't find. The latter is a display of scruples, I guess?
 

burnt

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Gee that really makes you look good and conscientious, doesn't it?

But it does nothing to improve your safety record either.
 
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burnt said:
Gee that really makes you look good and conscientious, doesn't it?

But it does nothing to improve your safety record either.

Neither does your testing/finding the cow that dies on farm and then finding its positive....

Just shows how high the odds are- and rising- that positives are slipping into the food chain since you don't test ALL before slaughter......And how high the odds are- and rising- that you're sending positive cows to the US to further hasten the spread of the disease....

Which in some cases the US then sends the beef from back for Canadians to eat :???:
 

burnt

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Oldtimer said:
burnt said:
Gee that really makes you look good and conscientious, doesn't it?

But it does nothing to improve your safety record either.

Neither does your testing/finding the cow that dies on farm and then finding its positive....

Just shows how high the odds are- and rising- that positives are slipping into the food chain since you don't test ALL before slaughter......And how high the odds are- and rising- that you're sending positive cows to the US to further hasten the spread of the disease....

So what does that say about your own herd ot? :drink: :drink: :drink: Can you bend your mind around that one or is your objectivity a little fuzzy?? :drink: :drink: :drink:
 
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burnt said:
Oldtimer said:
burnt said:
Gee that really makes you look good and conscientious, doesn't it?

But it does nothing to improve your safety record either.

Neither does your testing/finding the cow that dies on farm and then finding its positive....

Just shows how high the odds are- and rising- that positives are slipping into the food chain since you don't test ALL before slaughter......And how high the odds are- and rising- that you're sending positive cows to the US to further hasten the spread of the disease....

So what does that say about your own herd ot? :drink: :drink: :drink: Can you bend your mind around that one or is your objectivity a little fuzzy?? :drink: :drink: :drink:

You can't get BSE from eating grass...And I haven't/don't/won't buy any Canadian ones...
 

burnt

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Oldtimer said:
burnt said:
Oldtimer said:
Neither does your testing/finding the cow that dies on farm and then finding its positive....

Just shows how high the odds are- and rising- that positives are slipping into the food chain since you don't test ALL before slaughter......And how high the odds are- and rising- that you're sending positive cows to the US to further hasten the spread of the disease....

So what does that say about your own herd ot? :drink: :drink: :drink: Can you bend your mind around that one or is your objectivity a little fuzzy?? :drink: :drink: :drink:

You can't get BSE from eating grass...And I haven't/don't/won't buy any Canadian ones...

Well each to his own but I don't care much for eating grass.
 

burnt

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Sandhusker said:
burnt said:
Gee that really makes you look good and conscientious, doesn't it?

But it does nothing to improve your safety record either.

Where have I bragged about our record?

If I may use an illustration - you are like the chronic wife beater that hauls his neighbour into court for kicking his dog . . . . . . but he didn't admit to the judge that he was a wife beater.
 

hypocritexposer

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Reader has a good point, before pointing fingers, get all the facts.

Quite a bit of this debate is based on emotion. The facts and science have not advanced really since this all started in 2003.

Do we know where the feed came from on this cow? Did she catch it from elk? ETC

We got a cause yet, or just the result? Where are all those UK citizens that were supposed to develop vCJD? I haven't heard, have you?

Weren't there supposed to be 1000's by now?

If BSE caused vCJD and we're, (US and CAN), hiding cases, has it resulted in a spike of vCJD? Or are we still talking 1 or 2/million
 

canadian angus

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Oldtimer, wondering how long it would take to say that the US tested as many old cattle as we do! Take time for the world to adjust to your thinking and some will listen! Yes we have a problem, YOU and your mentality, small and protectionist.

Every time you say BEEF is bad the consumer will listen. Would like to debate you and your narrow visioned thinking. Smile and say the world is good!

CA
 
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