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Lets Use Science to Corral Mad Cow Disease and the Public Stampede

Make Money Online By Tom Still • 01/06/04 Madison, Wis. During the height of the mad cow scare in Great Britain, the parody newspaper The Onion ran a story headlined English beef approved for Irish consumption. The headline was good for a laugh but it also carried a smidgeon of truth about how choices were made during the 1996 British outbreak.

However, in Europe, due to Mad Cow Disease, derived ingredients are banned from cosmetics and lanolin is no longer being used.

Internet Business Opportunity Most decisions on banning imports or changing feed stocks during the British scare were made by politicians and business people, not by scientists. Those decisions were based on politics and economics rather than actual risk to human health. It is a history that should not be repeated now that mad cow disease (or bovine spongiform encephalopathy) has been discovered in a sick cow slaughtered in Washington state.

This substance, human DNA code, is thought to switch on the HIV virus and cause it to become AIDS in humans; AIDS itself has been linked with a virus called SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) which contaminated both the polio and smallpox vaccines; the current MMR (measles mumps rubella) and other vaccines which contain bovine (cow) blood products are thought to be able to spread the human and always fatal form of mad cow disease, Jacobs disease, more readily than eating contaminated meat.

Free Money Make no mistake: Mad cow disease should be taken seriously. However, thats not because of what we know about its links to a brain-wasting syndrome in humans. Its because of what we dont know. Fortunately, science has it within its grasp to learn more.

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Work At Home Business To this day, no one can say for sure there is a link between eating meat and Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease in humans. In fact, there is not direct evidence that Creutzfeldt-Jakob comes from the ingestion of contaminated beef, or that the syndrome deserves to be called the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy. We simply dont know enough yet.

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Free Online Affiliate Program How can scientists learn more? It starts with a much more aggressive program of testing and tracking slaughtered animals, which is the practice in Japan and Europe.

----- U.S. to Allow Imports of Older Canadian Cattle The risk of mad cow disease from Canada is negligible and, as of Nov. 19, older Canadian cattle and meat products made from them will be allowed again into the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday. In May 2003, U.S. borders were closed to all Canadian cattle and beef products after the first case of mad cow was reported in Canada, CBC News reported. In July 2005, the United States started to allow imports of Canadian cattle under the age of 30 months, which were believed to be at less risk for contracting the disease than older cattle.

Auction Coin Money Paper For a few pennies per pound of beef, virtually every cow slaughtered in the United States each year (about 35 million) could be tested by mad cow disease. The tests are becoming more specific, more reliable and cheaper by the day to administer. A test developed by Dr. Stanley Prusiner, a Nobel Prize-winning neurologist at the University of California at San Francisco, can process 8,000 samples in 24 hours. In Wisconsin, home to many biotech companies with testing expertise, the prospects for similar tests are good.

Franchise Business Opportunity For cattle ranchers, universal testing should be preferable to broad-based bans on imports that could have a devastating effect on sales. During the British scare, beef farmers there lost $10 billion in sales. Imagine how big the dollar loss could be in the United States.

Best Free Online Affiliate For consumers, universal testing would provide a sense of comfort that may not exist with todays limited testing regimen. It may be worth 2 or 3 cents a pound to be assured your beef is free of the prions (misfolded proteins, pronounced pree-ons) that cause mad cow.

Blogging Money Thebillivard For scientists and public health officials, such testing would provide the platform to learn more. In Japan, where 1.2 million slaughtered cows are tested each year, scientists have already learned prions can be present in younger animals not just animals 30 months old or older, as previously believed.

Best Home Based Business Farmers and meat packers are generally supportive of programs that boost public confidence in products they sell. For example, Holstein Association USA supports a national Farm Animal Identification and Record (FAIR) program that identifies animals at birth. The system utilizes a database to track animals with electronic ear tags from farm to farm, and eventually to slaughter. Nearly 1,400 dairy and livestock farms utilize electronic ear tags in 12 states.

Affiliate Marketing Program "A national animal identification program like National FAIR is critical not only to food safety, but to source verification of our meat products, said Steve Van Lannen, general manager with Packerland Packing, the largest beef company east of the Mississippi River. We installed National FAIR ear-tag readers in our facilities three years ago.

Money Site Thebillivard Com Animals receive a unique identification number at birth on a tag placed in the animals ear. Similar to a Social Security number, it stays with the animal for its lifetime and allows the animal to be traced from farm to farm.

Online Business Opportunity At Wayside Dairy near Reedsville, Wis., Dave Natzke and his family manage one of the first dairies in the nation to participate in the national FAIR program. Nearly all 1,800 cows and heifers on the dairy have electronic ID tags.

Pay Per Click Affiliate The British mad cow scare was a crisis because politicians missed the opportunity hidden within. Perhaps that single mad cow in Washington state will give U.S. policymakers cause to stop the public stampede and give science a chance to ride herd.

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Still is president of the Wisconsin Technology Council. He is the former associate editor of the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison.

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