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> Arri London > wrote:
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> > Up to a point you do have a say. Don't buy beef or other products you
> > might feel to be unsafe.
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> But how does one know what an unsafe beef product looks like?
> Usually, unsafe food is indistringuishable from safe food unless
> its moldy or smells bad.

I gave up beef in 1986, as soon as the rumours of BSE began in the UK
and before anyone acknowledged there was a problem. Wasn't a big thing,
as we hadn't eaten much to begin with.

If it worries you, why take a risk and eat any beef at all? Plenty of
other things to eat.

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> > Also the Canadian thing isn't proven, as Canadian records aren't
> > matching up to US records yet.
>
> Time will tell. Perhaps the Canadian and American authorities should
> request an evaluation from an outside unbiased party such as the Brits.

Even if the cow were to be proven definitively from Canada, it doesn't
mean that it was infected there. American farmers were still feeding
animal products to cattle within the incubation period of the disease.
Probably still are sometimes, even though it is banned.