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...idle question. Despite concerns about hardening arteries and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease), the average American still eats 95 lbs. (43 kg) of beef a year, and the average European puts away 40 lbs. (18 kg). Yet in taste terms, little of the 66 million tons of beef produced annually is worth the cholesterol it contains. All too often, unwitting consumers splurge on a steak dinner and end up with shoe leather. Thanks to anti-BSE measures and rising feed prices, most cattle are slaughtered at less than 30 months; they're too young and too crowded...
...disease may not take comfort in the USDA's response to the Alabama case. At a press conference Monday, department chief veterinarian John Clifford announced that the USDA will go ahead with previously announced plans to scale down its mad cow testing program. "The incidence of BSE [Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathyin] this country remains extremely low and our interlocking safeguards are working to protect both human and animal health, and we remain very confident in the safety of U.S. beef," said Clifford. But Consumer Union's Halloran says increased testing is needed and describes the USDA policy as "don't look...
Gray says he disagrees with Ulrich’s finding that the nation could expect up to one case of the disease, more formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, per month...
...Schriber Geneva Canadian beef consumption went up after Canada's single reported case of mad-cow disease last May. We rallied around an industry that we knew was being devastated by paranoia. Unlike Americans, whose media have institutionalized the use of fear, and the Japanese, who used the bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy incident to make a political statement, Canadians looked first at the practical risks. Beef isn't dangerous. This is a matter of faith as well as common sense. Jesse Heffring Montreal Remembering "King" Alan Your milestone on the death of actor Alan Bates did not include his starring role...
...described the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a dairy cow in the U.S. [Jan. 12]. Mad-cow disease? They should call it mad-human disease! Only we humans would feed a vegetarian animal contaminated meat-and-bone meal, exposing it to a horrible disorder, and then be mainly concerned with our inability to eat it. Which species, I ask, is mad? LAKSHMI JACKMAN Austin, Texas...