Re: [gardeners] OT - Mad cow disease in cats
lneuru (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:22:35 -0500
maybe that's whats wrong with my cats. They have never had any brains.
Lucinda
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> From: Margaret Lauterbach <mlaute@micron.net>
> To: gardens@LSV.UKY.EDU
> Subject: [gardeners] OT - Mad cow disease in cats
> Date: Sunday, March 11, 2001 10:44 AM
>
> The March 12 Newsweek magazine has a cover story on mad cow disease
> reporting that cats fed beef byproducts in cat food have developed
symptoms
> of BSE. Prions seem to reside primarily in the brain and nerve fibers,
> including the spinal cord. Should Americans stop eating beef? The
article
> certainly gave me more than pause. I still have some Wranglers in the
> refrig which I'll toss out, and I won't buy hamburger again. They
haven't
> found BSE in America, but critics say they would if they looked harder.
Of
> that British ground mad cow feed, it was shipped all over the world, to
> more than 80 countries. Indonesia imported some 600,000 metric tons, and
> Thailand 185,000 metric tons. These countries are apparently not
> monitoring for disease in animals there. Scares me. Margaret L