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Q: Does China's beef ever get tested for mad cow disease?
Just because it is being reported on the news anymore doesn't mean BSE aka mad cow disease has been wiped out. What worries me here is that I don't think any case was ever reported even though I'm sure farmers here feed their livestock with the worst and cheapest feed possible. So how safe is the beef here in terms of mad cow disease?
12 years 18 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
Mad cow disease was something that the world owes to the British. It was an illness brought about their methods of dairy agriculture. China has never experienced mad cow disease nor have other countries that did not feed their cows in the manner in which the British fed their cows. Thus, the question appears to me to be a little bit rhetoric -- how can the beef not be safe from mad cow disease if there has never been mad cow disease?
coffaholic:
Actually, you're wrong about that. BSE was not just a British problem and not completely the fault of Britain, but it's true that they did have the most cases. Many countries worldwide had BSE problems, including the United States, Germany, France, Argentina and even Japan! It wasn't the British who forced farmers worldwide to feed their cows with angel dust, it was the decision of farmers themselves.
I don't eat very much beef, because I prefer to eat meat without chopped bones, and it always has chopped bones. Well, sometimes I eat it. However, that's just one more thing to worry about that I have no control over and didn't think of it until you mentioned it. Thanks...?
Geesh! Just when I thought life was getting better, now I have to worry about demented dinners!
