How Many Of You (Americans) Still Eating Beef???
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Yup, had beef brisket sandwich for lunch, and plan for a new york strip steak for dinner. Hmmm, wonder why my cholestrol is high. Anyways, I agree that the odds are quite small of catching Mad Cow - especially with steaks since there shouldn't really be any nerve/brain matter contaminating it. I'd be more worried about the multitudes of crap that are in ground beef than mad cow heh.
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Washington State's moronic Governor or Senator is trying to ban Canadian Beef from entering into the US, even though the latest Mad Cow scare was from American Beef!...smart
Honestly, there is nothing to be scared of. You have a better chance of contracting an STD from a public toilet than you do of getting Mad Cow disease from a your favorite White Castle burger.
Not that it matters to me, I'm a fish and chicken guy.
Honestly, there is nothing to be scared of. You have a better chance of contracting an STD from a public toilet than you do of getting Mad Cow disease from a your favorite White Castle burger.
Not that it matters to me, I'm a fish and chicken guy.
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How many people stop leaving their house to avoid getting killed by a mugger? "It can happen!" 
All the liquor and nicotine I intake will impair the mad cow prion long before it could ever cause more harm than my vices.
The thing is, it could always happen, you just didn't think the risk was very high until you saw the news one day, then got all scared, not paying attention to the fact that ONE COW out of 35 million had an issue.
In order for mad cow-infected beef to enter the food supply, a great number of unlikely occurrences would need to happen, all of which violate USDA regulations, so I am not particularly concerned. Eating at White Castle is far more dangerous than eating a raw steak at a real restaurant.
Eating in foreign countries is much riskier than eating beef in the US right now. Eating raw fish, for example, is a recipe for disaster in many people's eyes, but I bet many people who are afraid of American beef don't see this as particularly dangerous. Go figure.
All the liquor and nicotine I intake will impair the mad cow prion long before it could ever cause more harm than my vices.
The thing is, it could always happen, you just didn't think the risk was very high until you saw the news one day, then got all scared, not paying attention to the fact that ONE COW out of 35 million had an issue.In order for mad cow-infected beef to enter the food supply, a great number of unlikely occurrences would need to happen, all of which violate USDA regulations, so I am not particularly concerned. Eating at White Castle is far more dangerous than eating a raw steak at a real restaurant.
Eating in foreign countries is much riskier than eating beef in the US right now. Eating raw fish, for example, is a recipe for disaster in many people's eyes, but I bet many people who are afraid of American beef don't see this as particularly dangerous. Go figure.