Mike
Well-known member
I"m no mathematician but I do know that if you test 10 %, that leaves 90% "Untested". :???:
Anybody want to argue that?
Anybody want to argue that?
Reader: "I do hang around non-USDA TSE researchers and hear what they say about the USDA and it's not pretty. I listen to USDA speak. I read their press releases. I read everything I can about TSEs."
Reader: "Where do you get your information - The National Enquirer?"
Reader: "By the way, the remark about me scaring my kids was both factually incorrect and way out of line buddy. I share none of this information with my kids."
rkaiser said:10% of what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10% of downers? Give me a break.
The only reason Canada had a couple more cases idendified was beacause of the program to pay farmers for the ones that would have been left fo coyote bait.
This is definately one area that America and Canada differ, but so what. Both of our testing numbers are so minor that they are almost useless.
More testing will find more. Will this stop BSE - No, but maybe just maybe it will help producers and shall I say packers, sell beef in the new era we have been forced into - the BSE beef era.
RK: "I asked SH what he thought of testing OTM cattle for market acess on another thread with no response. I'll quote again, a bit from one of our BIG C newsletters."
Reader: "Europe is a better predictor of North American prevalence."
Many biological studies in wild animals use small percentages of the populations to measure the impact on the overall populations. It's a mathematical equation of percentages that will eventually expose what is being sought if it's there. I am not qualified to explain it but I have seen this same principle applied to numerous situations.
We use small sample sizes to measure many diseases in wildlife. The percentages are simply compounded accordingly.
Don't bother to ask me to explain it further because I am not a mathematician.
Reader: "You have just betrayed your PROFOUND ignorance."
Reader: "Beef likely caused vCJD."
Reader: "I certainly have not told my kids that their dad got CJD from beef."
Reader: "Only you, Kathy, and Randy deny the relationship between BSE and vCJD. Can you say DE-NI-AL?"
Reader: "I agree that removing SRM from OTM helps but are UTM and OTM processed reliably in separate slaughtering houses?"
"Is SRM removal done correctly?"
"There are a lot of ways infected meat can enter the food chain. If the animal is 29 months, the central nervous system -- meaning brains and spine -- are not removed at all."
Give me a break and give yourself a break. Only you, Kathy, and Randy deny the relationship between BSE and vCJD. Can you say DE-NI-AL?
prions that "appear to be the same" do not make them the same. That is still "theory", "speculation", and "opinion", NOT FACT!
rkaiser said:Come on Mike. Lots of researchers do not agree that BSE is the causative agent of vCJD. Or have you decided that you are the only person who decides who a researcher is.
Similar, even identical under a powerful microscope, still does not prove any species jump.
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rkaiser said:Oh sorry Mike - I didn't know you meant MAINSTREAM!
Main"streams" never have water going any way but one.