Originally posted by UmbrageOfSnowSince we are on the subject... Did you know that for years the cattle industry has been grinding up dead animals and adding it to the cow feed? Yeah, I bought a dvd documentary about Mad Cow Disease and they report all these things that the industry has done in order to INCREASE PROFITS!.
Okay, so now I've done a bit of research and not just going from memory.
So, the CDC does say that classic CJD is caused by prions although I was sure I read somewhere repudable that there was controversy over that. Classic CJD isn't related to mad cow, variant CJD, vCJD, is.
The classic CJD happens sporadically when normal prions randomly mut ...[text shortened]... s more controversy. I'll run a database check and report back, not that anyone probalby cares.
Cows aren't carnivorous! ðŸ˜
Yet the cattle industry fed them ANIMAL MEAT! Much of that meat was from sheep. Sooo, the arguement is that the cattle were fed infected meat, which contained prions, and which caused the disease. Point of fact is: sometimes it takes 10 years for the disease to show up in the human who ate the cow meat. 😳
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think you can catch something like it from venison, too ...
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(well, apparently not, according to first wiki link below, but think i read something about suspicious cases involving hunters.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_Wasting_Disease)
another related link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion
Originally posted by arrakisI'm not surprised but I doubt it was from the sheep meat. I'm pretty sure it came about by farmers grinding up dead cows and feeding the to the living cows. Another reason why cannibalism sucks.
Since we are on the subject... Did you know that for years the cattle industry has been grinding up dead animals and adding it to the cow feed? Yeah, I bought a dvd documentary about Mad Cow Disease and they report all these things that the industry has done in order to INCREASE PROFITS!.
Cows aren't carnivorous! ðŸ˜
Yet the cattle industry fed them A ...[text shortened]... is: sometimes it takes 10 years for the disease to show up in the human who ate the cow meat. 😳
Hmm, steak.
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Originally posted by GalaxyShieldThere have actually been strange mad-cow-disease-like illnesses in kentucky hillbillies. After looking into it, researchers discovered the main trait they all had in common was the taste for eating squirrel brains.
I'm not surprised but I doubt it was from the sheep meat. I'm pretty sure it came about by farmers grinding up dead cows and feeding the to the living cows. Another reason why cannibalism sucks.
Hmm, steak.
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