Cows with TB have entered human food chain

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At least there's no horse meat in it...BTW horse is NOT Kosher.

Beef from cows that are infected with bovine tuberculosis could be being served in schools and hospitals, it has emerged.
The Government has admitted that meat from 28,000 diseased cattle is sold every year to catering firms and some supermarkets.
The Department for Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is believed to be making £10million a year selling the infected carcasses.

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Beef from cows infected with TB is being used to supply schools, hospitals and the military. File picture
Officials claim the risk of catching the illness from eating infected meat is ‘extremely low’.

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But Tesco has refused to sell the beef due to public health concerns and Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Burger King and McDonald’s have also chosen to ban it.
Herds are checked for bovine TB every one to four years. Any infected cattle are slaughtered, and the Government pay farmers up to £1,700 per animal in compensation.

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Defra claims the tuberculosis virus (pictured) is extremely unlikely to be transmitted through the meat, even when it is uncooked

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The meat is sold with no warning to processors or consumers that it comes from bTB infected cattle. File picture
DEFRA can then sell the meat on to catering firms, processors or supermarkets without providing any warning labels.
It is not clear what companies have bought the meat but Sodexo, Aramark and Compass – which supply food to hospitals and schools – could not deny serving it. Around 70 Britons become infected with bovine tuberculosis every year.

The symptoms are similar to the more common ‘human’ form, which causes a severe cough, loss of appetite and weight loss.

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The human risk from bovine tuberculosis has been used to justify a cull of tens of thousands of badgers, which are believed to help spread the disease
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Most people catch the illness by consuming infected milk or beef or by coming into contact with diseased cattle. The strain, which used to be very common, killed around 2,500 Britons each year in the 1920s and 1930s. Many patients caught it from infected milk.
The Government subsequently introduced milk pasteurisation and the heating process now kills the bacteria carrying the disease.
But the illness is on the rise in cattle, and experts are concerned it could soon become a health risk for humans again.
The Food Standards Agency, which is responsible for food safety, said if a cow was infected in one area of its body then the rest of its meat was fit for consumption.
Despite this, in 2005 one of DEFRA’s own researchers – Ricardo de la Rua-Domenech – found meat from other areas of the cow could still infect humans.
The Government is so worried about the threat bovine tuberculosis poses to humans that it has ordered the cull of tens of thousands of badgers, who are thought to spread the disease between cows.
However Dr Lucy Thomas, from Public Health England, stressed that the problem was not yet ‘widespread’ as the ‘numbers now are very small’.
And a DEFRA spokesman said: ‘All meat from cattle slaughtered due to bovine TB must undergo rigorous food safety checks before it can be passed fit for consumption.
‘The risk of infection from eating meat, even if raw or undercooked, remains extremely low.’

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Edited this twice, but the text frame seems shifted to the right of the boundary...is it just me?

Subject: Re: Cows with TB have entered human food chain Wed Jul 03, 2013 4:13 pm

Text will shift to whatever is the largest (highest resolution) photo. In your case the photos are only slightly larger than the border in the horizontal and the text will follow along and shift to that newly defined position as well. In your case the shift isn't extreme so don't worry about having to fix anything. Some of them go on and on for miles past the right border. In a case like that providing a link to the original photo along with HOSTING the photo link at a lower resolution is the preferred method.

Subject: Re: Cows with TB have entered human food chain Wed Jul 03, 2013 5:10 pm

I used to follow a well researched blog that theorized cattle mutilations were a "symptom" of the research being done on cattle in an attempt to produce "mad cow" that would infect those who ate the cow & create "mad human (zombie)". I think the trick was creating a subtle, barely "mad cow" so as to avoid detection and allow transference, if you're picking up what I'm putting down.

Naturally, like many interesting conspiracy theories the blog no longer exists and godaddy wants to sell it to you for 10 bucks or whatever if you try to visit.

PS that badger reminds me of the "honey badger" youtube sensation. crazy

Subject: Re: Cows with TB have entered human food chain Wed Jul 03, 2013 5:19 pm

LANGUAGE WARNING>!!!

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Now that's funny!!!

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researcher wrote:: Text will shift to whatever is the largest (highest resolution) photo. In your case the photos are only slightly larger than the border in the horizontal and the text will follow along and shift to that newly defined position as well. In your case the shift isn't extreme so don't worry about having to fix anything. Some of them go on and on for miles past the right border. In a case like that providing a link to the original photo along with HOSTING the photo link at a lower resolution is the preferred method.

I'll try that next time. Cool

Subject: Re: Cows with TB have entered human food chain Wed Jul 03, 2013 6:41 pm

That honey badger video was a real hoot! I hate to admit this but it was the language that made that video so funny. I don't think I've ever heard such a varied assortment of curse words in one short 3½ time-span before. If you have delicate ear-bones better turn the sound down.

!! FOXTROT JULIET BRAVO !!

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This pic is up on drudge's site. He's a believer and on board with most of the strangest of strange. (and knowledgeable beyond belief)

This is a very old pic/rendition of pharaoh chasing down Moses. Note the strange shaped head and pineal gland insinuations.

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And a little Nergal motif thrown in for good measure...?

Subject: Re: Cows with TB have entered human food chain Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:03 pm

I would guess as much but not an area I'm well versed in.

GROUNDZERO wrote:: And a little Nergal motif thrown in for good measure...?

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