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Originally Posted by Tombstone
What do you all think of this? What are you doing
about it? We've cut back on beef about two years ago. We are now
looking at buying our beef in bulk from local cattle grown naturally and
fed on the prairies around here by local farmers.
Thoughts?
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Buy your beef from Great Britian, which has now probably got the most
highly regulated, tested, and inspected meat in the world. Many other
places have "mad cow disease", but may hide it, so inspection and
detection is likely to be far less effective.
However, the above solution is not as ecologically sound as buying
locally produced meat (and preferably where you can guarantee the
stock has not been fed unnatural (to the stock) substances. Buying
locally should be a good deal cheaper, too, if buy purchasing in bulk
you can get a wholesale rate.
Note that other species, notably sheep, suffer from spongiform
encephalopathy, and have done for a couple of hundred years.
There is no evidence to show that this has been transmitted to
humans. Evidence for the transmission of BSE to humans is
tenuous.