SH WROTE;
and the US is just rampant with bse isn't it????
SH, as long as USDA continue to cover-up the real numbers of BSE/TSE in the USA (and this has been proven, via Texas and the OIG and the Honorable Phyllis Fong), continue to use the wrong BSE/TSE protocol for Testing (deliberately), wrong BSE surveillance protocols (deliberately), all proven and posted here time and time again, until folks like you that are so in debt to the USDA via there continued 'industry friendly' BSE/TSE surveillance and testing protocols, until all this is changed, the world will never know the true incidence of TSE/BSE in the USA, and this has been there goal all along. how else would one explain this;
A New Incidence of TME. In April of 1985, a mink rancher in Stetsonville, Wisconsin
reported that many of his mink were "acting funny", and some had died. At this time, we
visited the farm and found that approximately 10% of all adult mink were showing
typical signs of TME: insidious onset characterized by subtle behavioral changes, loss of
normal habits of cleanliness, deposition of droppings throughout the pen rather than in a
single area, hyperexcitability, difficulty in chewing and swallowing, and tails arched over
their _backs like squirrels. These signs were followed by progressive deterioration of
neurologic function beginning with locomoior incoordination, long periods of somnolence
in which the affected mink would stand motionless with its head in the corner of the
cage, complete debilitation, and death. Over the next 8-10 weeks, approximately 40% of
all the adult mink on the farm died from TME.
Since previous incidences of TME were associated with common or shared feeding
practices, we obtained a careful history of feed ingredients used over the past 12-18
months. The rancher was a "dead stock" feeder using mostly (>95%) downer or dead dairy
cattle and a few horses. Sheep had never been fed.
http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/mb/m09/tab05.pdf
SH WROTE;
Quote:
Conman: "The USDA was too scared to let Creekstone test for it."
THEY WEREN'T GOING TO FIND BSE IN CATTLE UNDER 24 MONTHS OF AGE WITH A TEST THAT WON'T DETECT BSE PRIONS IN CATTLE UNDER 24 MONTHS OF AGE!!!!
What part of that can't you understand???
Get past your need to blame usda.
SH, who else you gonna blame, the cow or the consumer??? it was/is the USDA et al that keeps screwing up, time after time, year after years. and what part of BSE in young cattle don't you understand,
it has been documented in very young animals, and as testing becomes more sensitive, there will be even younger animals found. and IF those very sensitive test for TSE are not used, whos fault is that? and what makes you think that all USA TSE in bovine will look like UK BSE? lab studies with USA scrapie to cattle show a different strain, so explain that there SH? or can you?
Some Findings from Japan’s Cases
- Many of the BSE cases were with old cows, but there were 2 cases with much younger cattle – 21 and 23 months of age ( one of them was atypical BSE).
- None of the cows showed any clinical signs of BSE. The cattle in 5 cases were not even non-ambulatory.
http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/fafacts/bse/bse.htm
Research Project: Study of Atypical Bse Project Number: 3625-32000-073-07
http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=000385
TSS