"DRB" > wrote in message
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> I think there is a lot of misinformation going around out there, and this
> particular piece is one of the biggest ones. Yes, you can eat meat from
an
> injured animal, so long as the animal is not sick in any other way at all.
> (The actualy injured area, ie the leg that's actually broken, is supposed
to
> be discarded). If the cow is sick with a disease, it's not supposed to be
> used for human consumption...
>
> This Diggery Dew is a fear monger, IMO. This person may live in the town
> that the cow came from, but I'm sure there are probably a lot of rumors
> spreading around there too. This person probably heard a rumor and got
all
> worked up over it and just had to share. The whole thing about the vet
> taking samples, then they sent the cow off? The animal has to be dead
> already to test for bse--they use brain and spinal cord samples. You
start
> taking parts of a living beings brain and spinal cord, they're probably
not
> going to recover from that. The cow has to be *alive* to sell it at
> market... so, they couldn't have killed the cow, taken the samples, and
then
> sent the cow off to be sold for human consumption.
>
Here is the link to the interview with the slaughter house owner.
http://tinyurl.com/2ybqo

There are a lot of weak links in the system.