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Default Surprise---US Mad Cow was imported from Cananda

Arri London > wrote:

> 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.


Actually, it doesn't worry me in the slightest bit.

> 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.


Agreed.