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Grass-fed gain for NZ beef from US mad cow row

flounder

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Grass-fed gain for NZ beef from US mad cow row

By JON MORGAN - The Dominion Post | Thursday, 25 October 2007


Arrogance comes before a fall – just ask my sportswriting colleagues who are sheepishly wending their way home from the World Cup.


The latest example of arrogance in the agricultural world is the cavalier way the Americans seem to be treating the North Asian beef market.

The United States had a US$2.3 billion (NZ$3.6 billion) a year market in Japan, Korea and Taiwan before mad cow disease turned up on a Washington farm in 2003.

Driven by food safety fears bordering on hysteria (with just a touch of self- interest for their domestic beef industry), these countries have been the last to lift bans imposed at the time.

But the US has not helped its cause. Its attempts to win its way back onto dinner plates have been marked by a bumbling ineptitude that the longer it has gone on can only be construed as arrogance.

Japan, Korea and Taiwan have sporadically lifted their bans on US beef – on condition that it came from young cattle and contained no brains or spinal cords – only to reimpose them as US exporters have continually flouted the rules.

It is New Zealand and Australia who have been the beneficiaries. Since 2003, New Zealand beef exports to North Asia have leapt from 70,000 tonnes to more than 113,000 tonnes a year, bringing in NZ$310 million more a year.

The bonus for New Zealand is that it is winning over diners to its grass-fed beef, a taste distinctly different from American and Australian grain-fed beef.

In Japan, the gains have been such that Meat & Wool New Zealand has made the plunge to promote its beef under the slogan "grass-reared, safe and delicious".

The Japanese have been surprisingly delighted that the New Zealand beef they have tried at blind tasting sessions has been grass-fed. They tend to eat with their eyes and the perception they've had is that grass-fed beef is tough because it doesn't look as pink or as marbled as grain-fed. Now they are discovering that's not the case.

The flavour gain has also carried over to ground beef, with Burger King opting to use only New Zealand beef in all its Japanese outlets.

In Korea, a new brand was also launched last year, directly aimed at lifting New Zealand beef's retail profile.

It coincided with the creation of a new supermarket chain, Homever, which actively sought out New Zealand beef at the expense of Australia.

Now New Zealand grass-fed beef's good points – from cattle that aren't housed, that range freely in the open air and sunshine and feed on natural grass and drink natural water – are being pushed strongly by Meat & Wool New Zealand.

At the same time, American arrogance is once more playing into New Zealand's hands.

Korea is refusing to budge on its latest ban of US beef, reimposed after bones were found in a shipment for the second time in three months. This time, a lot more is at stake than just the US$850 million a year beef trade – it is the US$74 billion total trade.

A free trade agreement between the countries that will be the US's biggest since the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada in 1994 is waiting to be ratified by each country's house of representatives.

But the beef ban is proving another stumbling block in an 18-month negotiation that has been strewn with them.

The US Congress insists the ban must go before it will sign, but is being sabotaged by its own exporters' incompetence.

On the Korean side, legislators are wary of their own powerful farmer lobby that "dung bombed" butchers' shops selling US beef this year.

New Zealand has its own free trade deal with Korea waiting in the wings.

Imports carry a 40 per cent tariff and if this is lifted for the US, however gradually, New Zealand does not want to be far behind. Negotiations will begin in earnest early next year and so far the signs are positive for a relatively straightforward agreement.

Meanwhile, the US is suffering its own food safety disaster. E coli has contaminated hamburgers, leading to the recall of 14 million kilograms of meat, the closure of processing plants and multimillion- dollar lawsuits.

Now the Asians' paranoia doesn't seem so extreme.


http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4250159a3600.html


Grass-fed gain for NZ beef from US mad cow row

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4250159a3600.html


BSE BASE MAD COW TESTING TEXAS, USA, AND CANADA, A REVIEW
OF SORTS


http://madcowtesting.blogspot.com/



MADCOW USDA the untold story

http://madcowusda.blogspot.com/



MADCOW USDA the untold story continued

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6472149427883113751&postID=4829467681293855400



ABSTRACTS SPORADIC CJD AND H BASE MAD COW ALABAMA AND TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 2007

Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:31:55 -0500



I suggest that you all read the data out about h-BASE and
sporadic CJD, GSS,
blood, and some of the other abstracts from the
PRION2007. ...



http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0709&L=sanet-mg&T=0&F=&S=&P=19744




*** PLEASE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE RAMIFICATIONS OF
THIS !!! THE PRICE OF
POKER INDEED GOES UP. ...TSS

USA BASE CASE, (ATYPICAL BSE), AND OR TSE (whatever they
are calling it
today), please note that both the ALABAMA COW, AND THE
TEXAS COW, both were
''H-TYPE'', personal communication Detwiler et al
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
11:52 PM. ...TSS



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NOR-98 ATYPICAL SCRAPIE USA UPDATE AS AT OCT 2007

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
NOR-98 SCRAPIE UPDATE AUGUST 31, 2007 RISES TO 5 DOCUMENTED
CASES


http://nor-98.blogspot.com/


From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr."
Subject: CWD UPDATE 88 AUGUST 31, 2007


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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:13:08 -0500
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr."
Subject: CWD NEW MEXICO RECORDS IT'S 19 CASE (near
Texas border again)


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Monitoring the Potential Transmission of Chronic Wasting
Disease to Humans
Using a Hunter Registry Database in Wyoming (405 lines)
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:23:42 -0500


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Subject: Cross-sequence transmission of sporadic
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
creates a new prion strain

Date: August 25, 2007 at 12:42 pm PST


Subject: Cross-sequence transmission of sporadic
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
creates a new prion strain
Date: August 25, 2007 at 12:42 pm PST

J Biol Chem. 2007 Aug 20; : 17709374

Cross-sequence transmission of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease creates a
new prion strain.

[My paper] Atsushi Kobayashi , Masahiro Asano , Shirou
Mohri , Tetsuyuki
Kitamoto

The genotype (methionine or valine) at polymorphic codon
129 of the human
prion protein (PrP) gene and the type (type 1 or type 2) of
abnormal isoform
of PrP (PrP(Sc)) are major determinants of the
clinicopathological
phenotypes of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD).
Here we found that
transmission of sCJD prions from a patient with valine
homozygosity (129V/V)
and type 2 PrP(Sc) (sCJD-VV2 prions) to mice expressing
human PrP with
methionine homozygosity (129M/M) generated unusual PrP(Sc)
intermediate in
size between type 1 and type 2. The intermediate type PrP
(Sc) was seen in
all examined dura mater graft-associated CJD cases with
129M/M and
plaque-type PrP deposits (p-dCJD). p-dCJD prions and sCJD-
VV2 prions
exhibited similar transmissibility and neuropathology, and
the identical
type of PrP(Sc) when inoculated into PrP-humanized mice
with 129M/M or
129V/V. These findings suggest that p-dCJD could be caused
by cross-sequence
transmission of sCJD-VV2 prions.


snip...


In this study, the strain-dependent traits of sCJDMM1
prions were inherited through cross-sequence
transmission without any modification. The
humanized mice with 129V/V produced type 1 PrPres
after inoculation with sCJD-MM1 prions. Because
sCJD-VV1 cases are extremely rare (at most 1-2%
of the total number of sCJD cases) and characterized
by early onset (mean age at onset: 39.3 years) (5),

####################################

our results raise the possibility that CJD cases
classified as VV1 may include cases caused by
iatrogenic transmission of sCJD-MM1 prions or
food-borne infection by type 1 prions from animals,
e.g., chronic wasting disease prions in cervid. In fact,
two CJD-VV1 patients who hunted deer or
consumed venison have been reported (40, 41). The
results of the present study emphasize the need for
traceback studies and careful re-examination of the
biochemical properties of sCJD-VV1 prions.

###################################

In conclusion, cross-sequence transmission of
sCJD-VV2 prions generates a new prion strain with
altered conformational properties and disease
phenotypes as p-dCJD prions. Furthermore, the
newly generated prions have unique transmissibility
including the traceback phenomenon. In the future, if
atypical prion strains emerge through cross-sequence
transmission, especially from animals, traceback
studies will enable us to identify the origin of the
prions.

REFERENCES...snip...end

FULL TEXT ;


http://www.jbc.org/cgi/


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Re: Colorado Surveillance Program for Chronic Wasting
Disease
Transmission to Humans (TWO SUSPECT CASES)


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Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy TME

http://transmissible-mink-encephalopathy.blogspot.com/



TME hyper/drowsy, INTER-SPECIES TRANSMISSION CWD and strain
properties



https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37955408&postID=116577315153980667



PLEASE NOTE IN USA CJD UPDATE AS AT JUNE 2007, please note
steady increase
in ''TYPE UNKNOWN''. ...TSS


1 Acquired in the United Kingdom; 2 Acquired in Saudi
Arabia; 3 Includes 17
inconclusive and 9 pending (1 from 2006, 8
from 2007); 4 Includes 17 non-vCJD type unknown (2 from
1996, 2 from 1997, 1
from 2001, 1 from 2003, 4 from 2004, 3
from 2005, 4 from 2006) and 36 type pending (2 from 2005, 8
from 2006, ***
26 from 2007)



http://www.cjdsurveillance.com/pdf/case-table.pdf



Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77518
 

Mike

Well-known member
The latest example of arrogance in the agricultural world is the cavalier way the Americans seem to be treating the North Asian beef market.

Will the arrogant ones please stand up? :mad:
 

Tex

Well-known member
PORKER said:
Will the arrogant ones please stand up? :mad: You don't suppose that's why they resign while still in office!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:



Maybe we should reward them with a hunting trip with the vice president.
 

RobertMac

Well-known member
The bonus for New Zealand is that it is winning over diners to its grass-fed beef, a taste distinctly different from American and Australian grain-fed beef.

In Japan, the gains have been such that Meat & Wool New Zealand has made the plunge to promote its beef under the slogan "grass-reared, safe and delicious".

The Japanese have been surprisingly delighted that the New Zealand beef they have tried at blind tasting sessions has been grass-fed. They tend to eat with their eyes and the perception they've had is that grass-fed beef is tough because it doesn't look as pink or as marbled as grain-fed. Now they are discovering that's not the case.

A missed point?????????????
 

Maple Leaf Angus

Well-known member
RobertMac said:
The bonus for New Zealand is that it is winning over diners to its grass-fed beef, a taste distinctly different from American and Australian grain-fed beef.

In Japan, the gains have been such that Meat & Wool New Zealand has made the plunge to promote its beef under the slogan "grass-reared, safe and delicious".

The Japanese have been surprisingly delighted that the New Zealand beef they have tried at blind tasting sessions has been grass-fed. They tend to eat with their eyes and the perception they've had is that grass-fed beef is tough because it doesn't look as pink or as marbled as grain-fed. Now they are discovering that's not the case.

A missed point?????????????


Nah, let's just sling blame around! It's much easier than facing reality. :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

PORKER

Well-known member
In conclusion, cross-sequence transmission of
sCJD-VV2 prions generates a new prion strain with
altered conformational properties and disease
phenotypes as p-dCJD prions. Furthermore, the
newly generated prions have unique transmissibility
including the traceback phenomenon. In the future, if
atypical prion strains emerge through cross-sequence
transmission, especially from animals, traceback
studies will enable us to identify the origin of the
prions.

ScoringAg would make this task childs play if they would use it.
Of course they would not need as much money as before as to the traceback efficient process of the ScoringAg datasearch system.
 

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