Re: [gardeners] OT - Mad cow disease in cats
George Shirley (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:29:31 -0600
We had a cat once, it tried to fight a car and lost.
George
lneuru wrote:
>
> 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