[Jena]

You can get the book, "Mad Cow USA" for free here:

http://prwatch.org/

click on the book cover to download it.

I read it. It does not seem to be an hysterical account of things, just an even-handed history of how things came to be as they are. There are many who do not think that scrapie was the cause, but that cattle themselves have their own TSE which was amplified by feeding practices.

Jena

 

[Jena]

Sorting through news to find the facts is often a challenge. I figure they are engaging in creative writing, so I have do some creative reading! There are extreme views on things either way. I think it's extreme to proclaim that there are no more cows out there and everything is hunky-dory. I also think it's extreme to try get everyone to go vegan. The truth is in the middle somewhere.

I think the US government should have kept it's mouth shut until they had proof the cows came from Canada.

Jena

 

[Jena]

From what I have recently read the DNA proves the cows came from
Canada. What other proof do you want?

The results just came back today. I wrote that a couple days ago when they did not have proof.

Jena

 

[Jena]

Our local news just said that they are going to slaughter about 450 calves because one of them is the infected cows calf. I didn't think this could be passed from cow to calf....Am I wrong??? Or is all this killing of calves just to ease some paranoid consumers mind...??

They are killing all those calves because they don't know which one was the sick cow's calf. It was never tagged.

I do not know if there has ever been a case of vertical transmission, but they assume it can occur (and it helps to ease consumer fears).

I am sure the farm is being compensated for the calves. I don't know how they figured a price, but they will get something.

Jena