blake murphy wrote:
>
> On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:15:57 -0700, Mark Thorson wrote:
>
> > blake murphy wrote:
> >>
> >> i think you're misplacing your priorities here. you're millions of times
> >> more like to get cancer than human variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from
> >> u.s. cattle, particularly from muscle meat.
> >
> > You're just guessing about the incidence of
> > Mad Cow Disease in U.S. cattle, because the
> > government prevents BSE testing from being
> > performed. If testing were allowed, then
> > we would know the extent of the spread of
> > BSE in U.S. herds.
>
> if it were rampant, you would expect to see more cases of
> creutzfeldt-jakob. you don't.
>
> blake

It's got a long enough incubation period that it won't show much just
yet. It took years in the UK for any to show. Easier just not to eat US
beef.