Wed Feb 25, 2004 4:35 am by Chips
Pah - bah and go away to all this hokum melarky.
Mad cow disease? No evidence that it gets transmitted to humans at all - none. Also - with strict guidelines in place - you should be fine. They thought it might be transmitted by some parts (NOT the meat, but the spinal cord) which is now banned from most countries meat products. Furthermore - infected beef next to uninfected = not a transmission possiblity. So say for every one in 20000 or so that might have got through.........the chances of eating that one cows spine in your dinner is darned small........odds are nearly as good as playing the lottery for hecks sake!
Furthermore - if it WAS transmissable - then there WOULD have been a CJD epedemic - and seeing as VEGETARIANS have had the disease, then its another naturally occuring disease that they MUST find a source of and stuff........i mean come on - when can we accept that cancer is a natural disease.........come on - breast cancer - terrible, are you telling me that smoking increases a womans chance of breast cancer? Heck no - its natural, its cell mutation.....of course somethings might HELP mutations occur (smoking) but they can occur naturally and for no reason at all as well. Its a natural disease - just like CJD - but we need to find a "cause" for it instead.......pah
Chickens? Blimey - what now? Chicken flu i take it? Humans contract it from living chickens, not the dead ones. Anyone would think that the whole world is ravaged by the problem - its not. Media histeria - how else are they going to sell papers? Headline of "Chicken Flu Epedemic in Thailand has been curbed" or would it be "Chicken Flu.........americans might die!!" - which would sell more papers? Same old human maschoistic ways - all bad news sells, if there aint any............make some up instead.
Anyway - Pigs, Fish, turkey, Lamb, Deer, and tons and tons of other meats are still going without problems. I would only turn veggie IF i went to the supermarket and the place was filled with poeple on their knees mooing, baying, clucking, and scratching the floor with their feet looking for food. Until then, I would be more worried about not washing the veg properly, and ingesting some of those pesky pesticides they use (which can harm you), and the more worrying time that in fact they have found 5 black widow spiders in bunches of bananas in tescos over the past two years! (only found when opened up at home!).
I would love to see histeria from everyone staying at home as you print the number of pedestrians run over each year. Look at the stats - around 10000 times more poeple die due to being run over by cars than CJD or chicken transmitted diseases!........until those odss even up - i am staying inside and away from those nutts drives.........and i aint touching any electric sockets in this house either - 500 times more people died from turning on TV's than CJD in past ten years..
Oh yes, have to get up pretty early to put one over me with this fear crap *turns the light on whilst wearing rubber wellington boots and wearing yellow rubber kitchen gloves* - yep, i don't scare easy *uses webcam to look at weather outside*.....ah alls good
Edited by - Chips on 2/25/2004 4:36:50 AM
Edited by - Chips on 2/25/2004 4:39:42 AM