5/24 I love meat but I'm afraid of mad cow disease. Which one of the
followings is the safest/most dangerous?
hot dog:
bulgogi:
boshintang:......
sukacok:....
Philly cheese steak:
Omaha steak:
pho:
Yoshinoya:
\_ Do these dots mean safe or dangerous? Boshintang is dog meat.
Will you get mad cow if you eat a dog that ate mad cow beef?
\_ I was going for safe. Most boshintang dogs are fed on rice
and other wierd !meat crap. Cow is too expensive in Korea
to waste on eatin' dogs. Although there is no regulation
about what the dog should be fed...
\_ I doubt there's *any* regulations in Korea regarding dog
feeds. I was just asking from scientific/technical aspect
out of curiosity. But I wouldn't rule out the dogs being
fed left over oxtail soups and such. Man, now I want some
dog meat!
sukacok:....
Philly cheese steak:
Omaha steak:
pho:
Yoshinoya:
\_ this is actually the wrong approach. if you want "safe" meat,
then you need to get your meat from a ranch that has a closed
herd, doesn't feed their cows cow-meat, etc. The closer to organic,
the better. But free-range, no hormones, no antibiotices is
pretty good, too. try http://www.pratherranch.com as an
example (they have a booth at the Ferry Bldg in SF, but under
another name). The best meats are at a premium price, but
you're worth it. Whole Foods is also a good place to buy
meats (not organic, but closed herds from Oregon, no hormones,
no antibiotics).
\_ Well, also they said mad cow. Avoid spinal material (brains,
pre-ground beef, etc) Steaks are going to be generally OK.
\_ Well, one of the reasons that mad cow goes around is that
in other herds, the cows are fed ground up cows which
contain the infected spinal material (brains, etc). This
is not a problem if you take the precautions listed above.
You can have as much good cow (any parts) that you want.
Another thing to keep in mind is that there is a LONG
incubation period for mad cow, even if you don't show
symptoms, you can pass the disease to others. The gov't is
certainly not protecting you, having refused to allow
additional testing so that one can prove that their herd
is safe. It's good to know that there are ranches like
prather ranch that has total control of their product:
grass fed, open range, closed herd. Total documented herds
and quality control that goes way above and beyond the
safeguards mandated (if you can call it that) by the gov't.
\_ Where are the defenders of capitalism?? I suppose you
also want the govt to hold your hand when you cross the
street, and wipe your tears when you cry like a little
girl. If people really wanted to pay for safe meat,
there'd be a market for it and you hear about mad cow.
But people don't care, at least not enough to pay for
a better quality product.
\_ . . . did you pay attention to this thread at all?
\_ uhm hello? there already is a market for better meat and
enough people are willing to pay for it to create and
sustain that market without government interference.
your capitalism is right there if only you'd stop
trolling long enough to go get a nice steak.
\_ Jeez, they are already doing this. There are gov't
functions/services that are essential for our
society. Defense, and safe food and drug supply, just
to name a handful. Why someone would have blind faith
in capitalism to protect our health is beyond
comprehension. With Bush starving these agencies so
that they can't do their job, I can only hope that you
choke on some mad cow spine. I'd love to see you babble
and cry "like a little girl" - Bitch.
\_ and wtf are you talking about also? capitalism *is*
working. there is a market for higher quality meat.
it costs more to raise that way so it costs more at
the store. those who don't care or don't believe in
mad cow can pay less for the lesser meat. its not a
big secret that there is probably more infected meat
in the system. its also probably not a whole lot.
only about 130 people died in britain over the last
umpteen years over it. even if 10x that many are
infected but don't know it yet, 1500 total deaths
over a period of years wouldn't normally even show
on the radar. did you or anyone else care when
saddam was killing about 1500 of his own people every
month? nope.
\_ from steaks to saddam. what a moron. no, wait,
that's your neo-conservative rush limbaugh-esque
talk show radio technique that you've been dying
to use. bravo for you.
\_ Read "The Food Revolution" by John Robbins to
see what your wonderful American capitalism has
done to the meat industry. It turned me into
a vegetarian ...
\_ Like anything else, if you want quality then
you have to pay for it. I eat beef much less
often, but pay more for it when I do. Prime,
aged, organic, free-range with no hormones.
This only exists because of capitalism, but
you won't get it on a bun for $0.99.
\_ The meat industry has little to do with
true capitalism. Massively subsidized
in every which way, if the true costs
were included a hamburger would probably
cost $50.
\_ The existence of cuts of meat like
Kobe steak is because of true
capitalism. You would never have
seen such meat in Soviet Russia.
\_ In Soviet Russia, steak cuts YOU!
\_ You're slightly wrong. Cows are not being fed reprocessed
remrants of other cows in the US any more although they're
still fed reprocessed remrants of other animals.
\_ Steaks should be safe and anything that doesn't contain brains or
nervous system tissue. Burgers are the least safe since you
generally don't know how much they have put ground beef in there
and how much fat and other junk.
\_ well, have you ever wondered why they pump cows full of
antibiotics and hormones and shit like that? it's because they
are packed together living like sardines. one sick cow can
infect a whole herd. yes, yer eating sick cows, and cow meat
full of antibiotics and hormones. it's assembly-line meat
productio. yum, yum. it ends up in milk, too. and kids drink
a lot of milk and eat lots of happy meals. then they grow up
to be morons at Cal, especially on the motd.
\_ Go Bears!
\_ It was recently shown that properly-processed lamb meat DOES
contain scrapie protein (probably due to nerves in muscle tissue)
Though this research does not prove mad cows have BSE proteins
in their muscle, it does throw some water on the theory that
steaks are safe. |
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