be honest, did you know that mad cow disease was found in a california cow and the story covered today? What do you make of it? Any changes on your horizon or business as usual?
My mom swears the media down played it my husband swears it was over-hyped. I was out of touch, so curious what kind of coverage you guys think it got.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/24/health/california-mad-cow/i...
what creeps me out is that this was just a cow selected at random.
I watched GMA this morning for a little bit and it was both verbally covered and written out on the bottom in the ticker tape. According to those reporting, there really isn't much to report at this time . . . one single case, not in the food supply etc. Time will tell if there is need for concern.
I haven't seen any news coverage of it yet today. I will say that we used to live not 30 minutes from Hanford (where the rendering plant was that "processed" this cow) - that is in Tulare county, where the vast majority of California milk products come from. I'm not sure if mad cow disease translates into milk or not; if not, that would be why they state the low public health risk. There aren't many beef cattle raised in that area. I can't say I'm surprised there's mad cow in a big commercial dairy area. If you've never seen the dairy farms, they're absolutely disgusting. As a small child, and even now, I have never understood why people think milk is healthy. Anything that comes from an animal that stands on a gigantic pile of its own feces its entire life can't possibly produce healthy milk. From a mile away, the smell makes your eyes water. Poor cows. Ugh.
I heard it on the news. I think it was handled correctly given the fact that you can only contract the disease if you eat brain or spinal tissue of an infected cow. I'm sure when these things occur it's a red flag for farmers and they are quick to double check, re-test, and make sure things are okay for public consumption.
It has been on our local news programs throughout the day and I believe that things 'facts' being as there are it got the appropriate amount of coverage. There was no negative repercussions from it nor does it appear to be anything will be of further concern directly at this moment. That is not to say that mad cow disease is not of a concern to humanity and bovine alike.
I didn't see it directly mentioned. I read an article about South Korea reinstating its ban on US Beef, which was of interest to me because I used to work in an industry where that was an important issue. It was only in that story that I learned that a US cow was found to have mad cow.
Haven't heard a word of it on tv today.
I saw the story online. And I actually read it. It didn't seem to me like it was over-hyping or downplaying it... just reporting the facts, which is sorely missing in most of today's "news reporting".
It wasn't from the feed, and it can happen as a mutation randomly--not from a "source"-- and apparently that is what this case was. One of the scientists gave the odds of it happening again in the near future and it was likened to some sort of astronomical odds of a rare space event happening. And this cow was randomly tested, and was slated to go to a rendering plant, not into the food chain for humans.
But yeah... it showed no symptoms, so that could be rather scary.
I think the "story" isn't so much this particular case, but rather they should do a looky-loo into the entire US beef trade. How exactly do they test for this, and how often, etc. Do they use the most accurate methods of testing, etc?
No, I am not surprised there wasn't more coverage. There wasn't really much of a story, unless, as I said above, they do a full background on the food supply in agriculture here in the USA.
That, and there was other news... did you see that NBA concussion causing elbow?!
I did hear about it. I think I heard about it online because I haven't watched the news in about a week. I very rarely eat red meat (maybe once every couple months), so I'm not too worried about it for my family, but it is scary to think that it happened.
I heard about it this morning from my fav am radio news team - I think it was handled appropriately. Had they not addressed it people would have freaked out and made it some huge consipiracy/cover up. I think they gave us the needed info to make our own personal decisions and I was assured enough to continue with my normal day to day.
I heard about it here in Texas in a little blurb of news they give every half hour on talk radio. Something about one dairy cow, first case since 2006, only the 4th case in the US ever I believe? I don't have tv, and the radio personalities I listened to talked politics and did not mention anything about the mad cow discovery. No, it did not affect my day.
