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BSE, the dairy industry, and the media
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ccjersey
Posted 4/26/2012 07:59 (#2354469 - in reply to #2354268)
Subject: Re: BSE, the dairy industry, and the media


Faunsdale, AL		You're entitled to your rant as much as anyone else, but you're wrong on
"EVERY SINGLE COW THAT HAS IS OF US ORIGIN HAS BEEN A DAIRY COW" and "they have 100% of the BSE cases in this country"

By my count (from links on CDC website I posted earlier under previous threads on this subject) we are at 50:50 after this last cow in California.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/bse/

On the other hand, over time, it is pretty likely that dairy will "get ahead" in this count, simply because of the numbers sampled in the BSE surveillance program. It's probably easier for a dairy to participate in collecting brain samples from downers/deads than for many beef producers. Before you decide that monitoring is a bad thing, think about why Japan and South Korea have opened their markets to US BEEF again over the last few years. It's a result of the monitoring program, turning in good data, backed up by numbers of samples taken that shows the incidence of BSE (either feed associated or spontaneous) is VERY LOW. So unless you can look at a cow and tell she's one that you should "shoot, shovel and shut up" about, that mentality won't cut it either. If we retain these export markets and our domestic market, it will be because we have an effective monitoring system in place that show the incidence of BSE in our cattle population.

Edited by ccjersey 4/26/2012 08:13
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