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Beach Runner
 
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usual suspect wrote:

> Beach Runner wrote:
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>> I recently posted a scientist that was a whistle blower,

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>
> No, you didn't. You posted a LINK to a conspiracy theory forum on a
> website about paranormal subjects that mentioned an alleged scientist
> who's allegedly making claims against the government. It's about as
> credible as the tabloid _Weekly World News_.
>
>> to the point of offering to take a lie detector test.

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>
> One's offer to take polygraph doesn't make one credible.
>
>> Mad cow cases met with shrug instead of safeguards
>> Mon Aug 1, 6:48 AM ET
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>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/200...adofsafeguards
>>
>> When bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease,
>> first surfaced in the United States in 2003, cattle ranchers and
>> government officialsshrugged it off as a cow infected in Canada
>> before being imported here.
>>
>> When a native-born cow tested positive this June, they explained it
>> away once again, saying the animal was infected before cattle feed
>> restrictions were put in place in 1997.

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>
> And that cow, like the first, was over the age of 10 years. Like the
> first, it was not headed into any food supply -- human or animal.
>
>> And when a third possible domestic case surfaced last week,

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> And it tested NEGATIVE for BSE:
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> http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...siness/3295454
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>> they
>> hastened to note that the 12-year-old cow hadn't entered the food
>> chain.
>>
>> The story is always the same.

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>
> The story is the same because only TWO cattle in the US have ever tested
> BSE-positive -- that's out of an estimated 40 million cattle slaughtered
> in the US every year (about 85% go to the human food supply, the rest to
> the animal food supply). BOTH of those BSE+ cattle were over 12
> years-old, which is "aged" by cattle standards. BOTH BSE+ cattle were
> kept out of the *entire* food supply; NEITHER was ever headed to the
> human food supply because their ages would make their meat unsuitable
> for human consumption. The age of the TWO cattle was the issue; there is
> no detected BSE epidemic in the US or Canada.
>
> That's two BSE+ cattle out of ~120,000,000 in the last three years, or a
> known infection rate of 0.000001667%. In other words, you hysterical
> twit, BSE incidence in the United States is *ANOMALOUS*. We shouldn't
> make policy on the basis of anomalies. Only you radical leftists think
> we should because you believe the end (i.e., forcing everyone to live
> like *you* think they should) justifies the means. You're an irrational,
> hysterical, bumbling ass.
>
> <...>


You ignore export plants that off to do their own testing, You take
funded sites by agents as gospel. And you are a vulgar troll.