so two cows are in a field talking.

one cow says to the other "Have you heard about mad cow disease?"

the other replies, "Why are you telling me? I'm a helicopter"

I though California had happy cows.

Just in time for summer, too! You lot panic while I enjoy beef tenderloin at low low prices!

Maybe it was just PMS?

oldfarthenry: Well-well-well-well-well! Looks like them borders will have to be closed off for Yank beef.
We Canucks will smugly supply the foreign markets while y'all deal with this!


Ground up Quebecois != Ground beef

U.S. cattle markets plunged on rumors of the case earlier in the trading day.

Fickle Wall Street bastards.

prion disease. why'd it have to be prion disease?

oldfarthenry: Well-well-well-well-well! Looks like them borders will have to be closed off for Yank beef.
We Canucks will smugly supply the foreign markets while y'all deal with this!

for 7-10 years sounds about right

The night of the cow!

THAT IS NOT MY COW

oldfarthenry: Well-well-well-well-well! Looks like them borders will have to be closed off for Yank beef.

It's BASE - not that BSE you've got going on up there.

It was a night just like this one. Lots of atmosphere. But it was no ordinary night. It was the night... the Night of the Cow!

Oldie but goodie...

http://www.cybersalt.org/funny-pictures/mad-cow-test

Walker: [img.photobucket.com image 470x570]

That picture always gets a chuckle out of me. Can't wait to paste it everywhere after the 2012 election results are in.

Paging John Titor.... Paging John Titor...

oldfarthenry: Well-well-well-well-well! Looks like them borders will have to be closed off for Yank beef.
We Canucks will smugly supply the foreign markets while y'all deal with this!

Naw they'll find some clever way to say the Cow came from Canada again.

...but the finding should not affect the nation's beef exports, said John Clifford, the USDA's chief veterinary officer.

/hahaha
//yeah, right, good luck with that

"There is really no concern for alarm here" - this! The Dairy and Beef industry have zero reason to lie to us.

Maybe if all you libtards weren't forcing the industry to jump through all these new needless job-killing regulations over 'lean finely textured beef' then maybe they'd have more time to prevent mad cow disease. You've only weakened America.

oldfarthenry: Well-well-well-well-well! Looks like them borders will have to be closed off for Yank beef.
We Canucks will smugly supply the foreign markets while y'all deal with this!

You sure about that?

I operate under the assumption any nation which hasn't reported mad cow is either lying or not testing properly, and that included the US until today. Admittedly, however, despite my family running a herd on the family lands I don't pay much attention to the beef market. I moved to the city for a number of reasons, that was one of them.

Thanks to legislative inertia, America still won't import foreign beef for quite a few years, but the bans were mostly protectionism anyway so it shouldn't be a surprise.

Jake Havechek: It was a night just like this one. Lots of atmosphere. But it was no ordinary night. It was the night... the Night of the Cow!

It was the PINK SLIME!

WMCB: Just in time for summer, too! You lot panic while I enjoy beef tenderloin at low low prices!

Beef prices have jumped a bit because of the culling of herds in Texas due to the last drought, so seeing those prices drop will be bad news, for Obama.

Have we stopped feeding our cows ground-up cows yet? Ok, then, carry on.

Okay, who the hell is feeding cows parts from dead cows again? If you've not learned it in school, cows are herbivores, not omnivores nor carnivores.

BSE doesn't spread via all natural pasture grass.

Dude, beef is beef. Beef is 100% safe and healthy. So logically, feeding beef to beef makes beef even healthier. In fact, a poll reveals that 10 out of 10 cattle industry captains say that mad cow is more of a case of a "mad media smear."

Cheaper beef for me! Nom nom nom!

La Vache qui Rit!

Mmmm, prions.

I just finished me a nice, tasty, medium ribeye so I'm getting a kick outta these replies.

Since prion diseases are caused by a misfolded protein I'm more surprised that it isn't super common. Billions of critters folding millions of proteins every day, and 99.9999999% of the time it goes off without creating prions.

I wonder if scavengers have a defense against this type of disease, or do scavengers not eat other scavengers for just this sort of reason.

I can actually see evolutionary selection in favor of this disease in herd animals. Animal gets on in years, has already had two or three offspring. Becomes the slow one picked off by predators, gives predators the prion disease thus protecting it's offspring by killing the predators.

JackieRabbit: Maybe it was just PMS?

Just what I was thinking. A clear case of Pre-Milking Syndrome.

1derful: Dude, beef is beef. Beef is 100% safe and healthy. So logically, feeding beef to beef makes beef even healthier. In fact, a poll reveals that 10 out of 10 cattle industry captains say that mad cow is more of a case of a "mad media smear."

BSE occurs spontaneously about 1 in a million. If there are 60 million cattle in the USA, there are about 60 carrying BSE at any given time. It's not (necessarily) a problem with the feed or treatment.

Answer: Stop mass testing. Kill downers. Don't eat brains.

feeding beef to beef makes beef even BEEFIER,

i have faith our govt will protect us

Every owner of livestock needs to respect their animals as much as their consumers respect the meat.

Here's a picture of Van Gogh's Starry Night, made completely out of bacon.