Potential Mad Cow Case found in Brazil!!!!

[SASKFARMER3]

Seems never find one in USA or else where but hm this time their is maybe one in Brazil. Who is starting to ship lots of beef to the USA and abroad. Hm funny how never in USA.
Department of Health of Campinas, SP, dismisses suspected case of 'mad cow'. The results of the analysis could be up to 15 days. With most of Brazil's 170 million head on pasture, mad cow is basically impossible to contract. No bone meal feeds et cet to bovine animals. This is different than in other countries.
Lets watch the outcome of this. No Bone meal.

[per]

You might want to read some of Mark Purdy's work. No bone meal necessarily necessary according to his theory.

[SASKFARMER3]

Parana:Consumption of animal protein leads to slaughter of 175 beef. Another 230 animals were collected for surveillance

[SASKFARMER3]

Mato Grosso do Sul, 1600 cattle at a feedlot were slaughtered because of the ingestion of feed containing ingredients of animal origin.
Why is this not news yet one american settles in alberta and kills our cattle heard. Hm

[burnt]

Save a bit of cash to invest in a course in Mandarin so you can understand your orders.

[burnt]

A link to your source would be immensely helpful. This is most interesting.

[parsley]

Rose Mary Souza
Direto de Campinas Direct Campinas

The Department of Health of Campinas (SP) ruled on Friday suspected of being infected by mad cow disease in a pediatrician of 58 years admitted to the Hospital Beneficence Portuguese.

It said preliminary tests indicate that man has Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, caused by a mutation in the prion protein, whose symptoms are similar to mad cow disease.

"The mad cow disease would be the last chance for diagnosis of this patient," said Health Secretary Francisco Kerr Saraiva.



According to the neurologist Jose Claret, symptoms began to be perceived from the 15th of October, when the pediatrician came to suffer from degeneration of the nervous system, convulsions and loss of memory and vision.

Because the symptoms were similar to those observed in patients infected with mad cow disease, the hospital notified the Health agencies at the state and federal.

The Department of Health dismissed the possibility of harm because of mad cow disease, until now, no reports of disease in the country, both in humans and animals.

Moreover, the meat consumed in Brazil comes from cattle raised in pastures green, that is, no food of animal feed, a major way of spreading mad cow disease among the cattle population.


One factor that has caused concern in the medical team was the fact that the patient has recently traveled to Europe, a region where there were documented cases of the disease.

However, we found that the trip occurred about two years, a period when there was no risk of contagion.


"The patient underwent magnetic resonance imaging and image analysis, which have resulted in this prion disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)," said Claret, who explained that this is a rare disease.

"It affects one in every 1 million people a year worldwide," he said.

No risk of transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease among humans.


The mad cow disease affects the muscles, leading the patient with dementia and then death.

It is transmitted by eating meat contaminated animal, and there is no risk of transmission from person to person.

Worldwide, there have been 190 000 cases diagnosed, mostly in the European Union.

Translated from Portugese. Pars

[Happytrails]

I tend to agree with burnt but not sure if being able to understand our orders would be a plus.

From a different angle, logic would suggest that if land area is constant and the population increases the area per person decreases. Thus the competition for land will intensify. Maybe that is what makes AF want to corner a bit more of the land market. I would caution that land tenure is historically, well, tenuous. The next occupant of your land might obtain it by far different means than you did; e.g. revolution or conquest.

Anyone aspiring to be a land baron had best brush up on their power politics. For most of us I would recommend that we try to match our holdings to our family's labor and management capacity with emphasis on personal fulfillment. Why would we want anything more? We are presently living like kings but without the danger and intrigue. Going for the kingdom loses that lifestyle.

HT

PS Am reading "Why the West Rules-for Now" by Ian Morris. It has a lot of perspective on human endeavors.

[riders2010]

And i wonder just how dilegent these countries that we are so eager for our corporations to take advantage of and ship product here, while killing the family farms here, what kind of monitoring systems do they have compared to us? I believe we should have a solid law as to where food products come from and what their monitoring system is for disease surveylance, cleanliness etc.

[burnt]

Did you know that only 1/10 of the meat imported into our country is subjected to inspection by the CFIA?

And that much of the meat (and likely vegetables) is raised using products that are banned here?



But I don't suppose Cargill et al really care.

[burnt]

Good comments, HT. Land is always a solid asset and the parameters you set out appear sound. However, your sage observation ". . . that land tenure is historically, well, tenuous" has been well documented throughout history.

What I find discomforting is that our democratic process leaves us highly susceptible to influences that are most unfriendly toward the lifestyle and values that made this country what it is. And we all know that those influences are already at work.

What prompted my initial comment is a "rumor" that I heard on Friday that our local stockyards here in Southern Ontario, Brussels Livestock, was recently purchased by Chinese interests. I hope it turns out untrue.

But it is a fact that the Chinese are investigating the construction of a meatpacking plant near Brussels, so time will tell. And it is also a fact that the present owner of the stockyards wants to sell.

[SASKFARMER3]

It just sucks when we have to play buy rules yet rest dont. BS BS BS. Close packing plants here we loose thousands of great cattle producers for what. Cheap beef from out of country. Wait slowly they wein you off food stuff and soon puplic think crappy range beef is new norm.

[grassfarmer]

Its all perception SK3 - an increasing number of Canadian consumers are already turning their back on "crappy feedlot beef". We can't meet the demand for our high quality grass-fed product ;o)

[Kathy]

HT quote: " For most of us I would recommend that we try to match our holdings to our family's labor and management capacity with emphasis on personal fulfillment."

Extremely wise words!!

With the passing of legislation in Alberta, like the new Animal Health Act, the Land Stewardship Act, Land Project Areas Act and the Electric Statutes Amendment Act - I feel anyone who owns land, or is thinking of buying more should be very very cautious!

There is NO guarantee of compensation should the government decide to take your land, or freeze its development or use... in the future....

The biggest thing is don't get into more debt. If you've got the cash to spend, you are risking less. If you borrow to buy more land, be prepared to pay much higher interest rates than we presently see.

[ajl]

It is time for us to stop pretending we know how mad cow transmits. The bone meal theory is like man made global warming theory. Sure has been a convenient non tarriff trade barrier. Most beef I have eaten lately tasted quite good so we can lay off the grass fed is better than feedlot raised beef as well.