primitives alarmed at getting mad cow disease from fish

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222x63708

Oh my.

Scratch yet another item from the list of things the primitives haven't discussed.

n2doc  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jun-30-09 06:28 AM
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Risk of mad cow disease from farmed fish?

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Three U.S. scientists are concern about the potential of people contracting Creutzfeldt Jakob disease -- the human form of "mad cow disease" -- from eating farmed fish who are fed byproducts rendered from cows.

Mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy is a fatal brain disease in cattle, which scientists believe can cause Creutzfeldt Jakob disease in humans who eat infected cow parts.

In the latest issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, Dr. Robert P. Friedland, a neurologist at University of Louisville in Kentucky and colleagues suggest that farmed fish fed contaminated cow parts could transmit Creutzfeldt Jakob disease.

The scientists want government regulators to ban feeding cow meat or bone meal to fish until the safety of this common practice can be confirmed.

more:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE55P69...

The multiple-home-owning primitive:

MADem  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jun-30-09 06:47 AM
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1. Oh fachrissake. Ya don't eat "cow" because it can kill ya. 

So ya eat fish....but the damn fish can kill ya, too!

Good grief.

WinkyDink  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jun-30-09 07:05 AM
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2. This is extremely worrisome to me. I stopped eating beef years ago because of MC. I did this when I learned I cannot donate blood because of the time I had spent in the UK previously.

I had no idea what "farmed" actually meant, re: fish. I am EXTREMELY upset at this news, to repeat myself.

dipsydoodle  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jun-30-09 07:09 AM
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3. Avoid gelatine too for exactly the same reason.

eShirl (1000+ posts)      Tue Jun-30-09 07:15 AM
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4. the idiots (not just these ones) are going to kill us all, slowly or quickly

PetrusMonsFormicarum  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jun-30-09 07:28 AM
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5. Don't eat farmed fish!

There are few other food sources that require so much antibiotics for their production, or are as potentially catastrophic to the farm's local environment. The hidden costs of fish farming are too high.

franksolich doesn't eat dead fish, period.

So franksolich isn't sweating it.

[DumbAss Tanker]

franksolich doesn't eat dead fish, period.

So franksolich isn't sweating it.

You know what I'm thinking right now, don't you?

[GOBUCKS]

2. This is extremely worrisome to me. I stopped eating beef years ago because of MC. I did this when I learned I cannot donate blood because of the time I had spent in the UK previously.

You cannot donate blood if you've spent time in the UK.
And contracted AIDS while there.

[BlueStateSaint]

You know what I'm thinking right now, don't you?