Re: Re: Mad Cow is confirmed.

Posted by Dick in Ore.. on December 24, 2003 at 21:53:27 from (216.239.184.95):

In Reply to: Re: Mad Cow is confirmed. posted by Heat Houser on December 24, 2003 at 16:05:00:

Heat Houser,

I can understand your problem about shipping your fat cattle. I'm afraid the beef prices are going to sink out of site. Most people don't understand that when cattle have reached weight and are ready to ship, they have to go.. If you hang on to them, they end up costing you more, feeding a finished animal. This is of great concern to anyone related to farming.
With 14 countries stopping all U.S. exports of beef, including Japan and Mexico, what will happen to all the processed meat? Some stores are even pulling their red meat from their meat counters. Without demand prices only have one direction to go. Will packers be buying if they know they don't have a market for their finished product, even if the price is rock bottom?
With exports coming to a halt, I'm sure this will have a devistating effect on the market here at home. The majority of Americans know nothing about meat production and only go by what they see on TV and hear on the news. But, will they believe the FDA and USDA when they tell them the meat is safe to eat? As if they know if it's safe or not.. USDA head, Ann Veneman stated on the national news, the spinal cord and related organs did not reach the consumer and our meat is safe to eat. How in the h*ll does she know? You know as well as I do, every scrap of meat is not inspected by a USDA inspector before it leaves the processing plant. This would be impossible.
It was just by luck that tissue samples from this suspect cow were taken, then an employee at the Ames Iowa testing facility found it to test positive. But, by the time the testing was done, I'm sure the meat from that cow was long gone to,, well let's say hamburgers..

I wonder how many people will be running to the doctor with symtoms of Creutzfelt-Jakob disease within a week? The news media is going to blow this one up as much as they can.
What a shame...

Dick

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