Mad Cow USA Update:John Stauber

Author of Mad Cow USA answers questions about US beef safety concerns and 'prion' diseases (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies) and the correlation of Mad Cow with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Interview with John Stauber at the National Conference for Media Reform, Memphis TN Jan. 13, 2007. (10 min.) see also www.prwatch.org
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• mad
• cow
• usa
• creutzfeld
• jakob
• beef
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• food
• safety
• health

[ranxer]

all arguements aside.. i can't find fault in anything john stauber is saying.. in fact i think he's erring on the light side of things, it's playing russian ruelette eating ground beef in America, period.

[KiraRaziel889]

Wow...the whole affair is just disgusting.

[ranxer]

yea bud,its a corporate system and as colbert reported we can't test for fear that corporate food might be sick and we might show it.. continue with yer head in the sand all all looks fine because of plausible deniability. woohoo! invest in corporate america.. we be makin money!

[killchiro]

I'm scared from eating beef, I've had muscle spasms and myoclonic spasms and there's now way to really get tested for CJD. Fuck our government to hell, I stopped eating beef but my mother kept serving it and i broke down after years of it being around.

Stop eating beef period AMerica, foreigners stop importing US beef.

[existentialvoid]

I don't eat beef in the U.S. because as someone from Japan - I know that there is Mad Cow in the U.S. but it is ignored. If I said Mad-Cow in Japan, even a 6 year old can tell me what it is. In the U.S. hardly anyone knows about it - scarry.

[atlastpeace]

You know? After watching many documentaries and movies I saw of deadly disease, I could see a deadly disease spreading like wild fire across any country at any moment. I fear as though a disease of some type may come from animals and not likely from other humans. Whatever may happen in the future, I just hope I'm not there to watch anyone dying from a disease that is impossible to cure. We have to be more careful with food.

[MuleKist]

Now they are taking the "suspect" parts, te brains, the spinal cords, the lungs, and putting it into OUR PET FOOD.

The meat industry does not believe in wasting anything,...even disease laden scraps.

[MuleKist]

Go to Yellow Tail Wines Facebook page and help them counter-act the attacks they are suffering at the hands of the Meat Industry Industrialites. They are advocating a boycott of Yellow Tail Wine for their contribution to HSUS. This is a call to action for animal right and welfare folk.

[beaelliott]

So now... instead of slaughterhouse "waste" going into animal feed... It's going into human "food". Best to go vegan - Better for health, the environment & the animals!

[vince1433]

what kind of stupid fucking idiot decided it would be a good idea to feed cows to cows?they're herbivors not carnivors or canibals! and these pricks are in charge of our countrys?!?!

[steven1990v]

Thanks for putting up this video.

[kingkitty]

Check out some time how a Korean Cow is raised...Oh you dont really know do you

[MAPP1010]

Their were a few people in Tulsa, Oklahoma who died of suspected mad cow disease recently, but the family's denied permission for autopsy to find out for sure.

[bamboo555]

The only reason there have been more confimed cases in Japan is because of testing(hardly any testing here). Yale did a study on people who died from Alzheimers disease, and they found that 5-10% of the brains tested positive for CJD (a form of BSE). You obviously still eat US beef. I quit about 2 years ago when I educated myself on the risk of infection, but I do eat beef in other countries, most of which have less corporate farms and more testing. I also eat venison for protein.