Mad Cow disease in US, here we go again....

[Taiwan_Student]

Just heard on the radio that there was an other case of mad cow disease in the states. It's the first one in six years and they say that it was an atypical case that did not come from the animal's feed.

Well, we are going to have a media circus starting tomorrow... I guarantee.

[Belgian Pie]

Oh, big chance there will be no ractopamine tainted beef from the US now, or entirely no US beef for some time to come.

[California]

US will neeed to ramp up its rhetoric for US beef then. This is going to be a field day for the Taiwanese press and it could make the anti-US beef propaganda loud enough to cause some real damage. The solution is simple though. We've used the carrot of visa-free entry, now its time to use the stick.


No beef, no weapons. Period.

[GC Rider]

US will neeed to ramp up its rhetoric for US beef then. This is going to be a field day for the Taiwanese press and it could make the anti-US beef propaganda loud enough to cause some real damage. The solution is simple though. We've used the carrot of visa-free entry, now its time to use the stick.


No beef, no weapons. Period.

Why not just nuke them in retaliation? Either buy or die.

[sandman]

No ban. No intention to impose one. Isolated case in one cow that wasn't slaughtered for meat in any case. Storm in a teacup. Of course the gubmint COULD cut its own throat by banning imports. Will they? Hey! Its the Taiwanese government. Anything is possible!

[cake]

Why would anyone want to eat cows that weren't fed on grass? Unhealthy mass farmed corn fed junk. And then there is the treatment of the animals when they traipsed through their own shite.

[sandman]

Why would anyone want to eat cows that weren't fed on grass? Unhealthy mass farmed corn fed junk. And then there is the treatment of the animals when they traipsed through their own shite.

Cheaper.

[urodacus]

The US is full of fuckin' mad cows, not to mention all the corn-fed beef just walkin' the streets looking for trouble.


and there's not enough land to grass feed all the beef consumed in the US, for another thing. They just plant fields of corn instead.

[Hamletintaiwan]

Just a reminder!
Mad cow disease comes from cannibalism. Therefore, one cow must have eaten another cow which contracted it from eating a "cow"!
Cows eating grass or corn don't get Mad cow disease.

[urodacus]

Sick, dying cows and the unwanted offal like bones and brains get ground up and added to the feed pellets for added protein. Cheap and convenient, for sure: US beef is cheapest in the world.

It's Cowlent Green.