Second BSE Case

[TheBullLady]

I just read a new "e-zine" about the second confirmed BSE case.

There's a question as to whether it might be from the infamous Texas cow that mysteriously disappeared last year before it could be tested. Anybody else hearing that?

 

[txshowmom]

Thats the one!! It was "discovered" last fall but it DID NOT enter the food chain. There are more people that die EVERYDAY from food poisoning and nobody thinks twice about it. But have one damn cow test positive for BSE and the whole world falls apart. Letsa hope this does not have much of an effwect on the market because I have 63 calves I'm fixing to haul to the auctiuon barn!

 

[msscamp]

I just read a new "e-zine" about the second confirmed BSE case.

There's a question as to whether it might be from the infamous Texas cow that mysteriously disappeared last year before it could be tested. Anybody else hearing that?

According to everything I have read, no this new case is not that cow. The 'new' case was field tested twice last November and came up negative. Then it was IHC tested and came up positive. Then the samples sat in a freezer until this June when the OIG intervened and requested/ordered (depending on the article) a WB test, which tested positive. Then a sample was sent to England and that sample came back positive.

 

[farmer rich]

Before BSE IN 1995 average live sale price was £1.24/kg average price in 2000 was 90p. Dispite beef consumption rising to pre BSE levels price today is £1.08/kg. Subsidy payments were the only thing that kept beef going in the UK, now those are gone, not sure what will happen now.