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BSE in USA WAS IMMINENT

rkaiser

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Tim - Your point is unargueable about profits from the test kit and producers ultimately paying. And I will also support your views on the need to test for something that is not even proven beyond a doubt to be a problem in the first place.

However - the rancher is paying now by way of a controlled captive oversupply of cull and to a point fed cattle. This controlled oversupply could (and I stress the word could) be changed if testing for export marketing purposes were allowed. Any thoughts? Just continue to allow excessive profits roll into the pockets of those who harvest our cull cattle in Canada, or let Prusiner get rich? Not much of a choice eh?
 

Mike

Well-known member
Tim: What "consumer concern"???? Per-capita beef consumption actually INCREASED, at least in Canada, after BSE was first detected in '03. WHY?? Because the price was right. What did domestic beef consumption do in the States, post BSE? I'm pretty sure it either stayed static or increased as well.
This "consumer concern" is just more "bull$hit" from the snake-oilers that are trying to sell test kits.........and don't even mention Japan because that is politics and nothing more.
Prusiner stands to profit, directly or indirectly, from selling BSE tests. In order to sell them he needs to create fear over BSE. It's that simple.

Tim, Come back down to earth. The reason Japan, Korea, and China is NOT accepting our beef is because of "CONSUMER CONCERN".

Every time I look at the news a new article is out with questions for the USDA and their numerous mistakes in the BSE arena.

The first time someone gets diagnosed with a homegrown case of vCJD, and it's just a matter of time, it will be hell to pay.

Political coverup is always worse than the crime.

Prusiner is very well respected in the "Prion" world. If the USDA were actually following sound science, they would hang their hats on these guys instead of ignoring them. Science admits that there is not much known about TSE's but the USDA acts as if they can tell the whole world everything they need to know about it.
 

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