OT: stop the spread of Mad Cow disease

WHOA.

Containing human by-products?

No. Absolutely insane in implementation. Also continues to promote big, big government. Bad, bad ideas, every last one.

~ Duane "I once was a farm boy" Phillips.

Excuse me. We are animals too. If you get me banned from eating meat, I'm gonna be MAD!!!!

Please watch your wording. Accuracy of communications is important.

-- Eric Benner TRA # 8975 L2 NAR # 79398

Soylent moo is people?

Kinda rules out EATING them, doesn't it?

now Duane, why don't you tell us how you really feel?

- iz ;)

Agreed. Got "crazy hair" growing all over it. ;-)

hey guys, I'm just the messenger

my wife emailed it to me and said "forward this"

who am I to argue?

BTW, I haven't eaten any meat other than fish, eggs and dairy (mostly cheese and yogurt, not milk) for two years!

for health reasons ( cholesterol, high blood pressure .. both of which are completely acceptable, thank you for asking )

I'm also not keen on ingesting antibiotics and hormones from things lower in the food chain

(watch, now someone is going to tell me how much fish is farm-raised and givem all of the above!)

= iz

Eating them is very natural and organic. Letting them roam (instead of keeping them imobile in pens) is humane. Some slaughter methods are more humane than others.

While I disagree with any big government system, we do have the ability and technology to improve the quality of our food supply (which is probably the best > "Ismaeel Abdur-Rasheed" wrote:

This was done in 1996 or 1997.

Hey, lets just jump to the bottom line here. Covers all of the above.

1. Everyone must raise, process and store their own meat. (If they want any meat.)

Bob

"Whoa" would indicate equine by-products.

This whole thing does not smell Kosher.

-Fred Shecter NAR 20117

cite?

- iz

You just can't kill them first.

It's interesting to me that we get all upset when people blow Rocketry issues out of proportion without understanding the issues. Why do we contribute to the problem in other areas?

100 people die each week from various forms of food poisoning. No one in the US has ever contracted, let alone died from, a mad-cow related illness. The odds of that happening are thousands of times less than dying in your car on the way to work. So why propose, promote, or support a whole bunch of government over-regulation of one over-hyped issue?

I don't know about you, but I'd sure want to know if the water in my beer is made from recycled urine... ;-)

Also agreed from a rural resident. That would make the hassles even worse for cattle farmers, and would lower their profits purchasing more equipment and tracking them. When you lower a profit of almost nothing, that does not yeild good for the farmer. I swear that 99% of this nation has no clue about the real farming situation.

Mad cow is in the brain, not the meat.

Not to mention you have to eat the brain and spine to worry about it any way. Source was the food and drug administration during the last press release.

John "still eating beef here in Portland Oregon" Hornsby