Mad Cow Disease Rears Its Ugly Head In Scotland.

[sandyRoe]

Only one case so far.  How is it transmitted?

Should we be looking for vegetarian alternatives to beef?

[sunny-dave]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw4dqnj1pjko

[naomi24]

I don't think there is good alternative.  I read the other day that vegetarian products produced to emulate meat are so full of rubbish that they're positively unhealthy.

[Arksided]

A mad cow found in Scotland, well I never... 🤔

[davebro3]

I thought this was about Sturgeon making a comeback!😂😂😂😂😂

[naomi24]

😂

[Old_Geezer]

You should put this in Chatterbank as vegetarian alternatives are always nonsense 😁

[barry1010]

People don't get BSE but they can get vCJD from eating the matter from the spinal column or brain of animals infected with BSE, or has a blood transfusion from infected blood.

vCJD is extremely rare, with a total of 178 cases in UK since the first outbreak in the 1980s.  Laws have been passed to ensure that no spinal column or brain matter gets in to the human food chain.  

I will continue to eat British beef. 

[gingejbee]

There are vegetarian alternatives to beef - they're called vegetables.

[jourdain2]

If I remember rightly it MC disease first reared its ugly head because unscrupulous firms were making cattle-food containing scrap meat products, some from other cows.

It seemed to centre in the spinal column and we can only just cook with ox-tail again.  Not sure how it then spread from cow to cow.

Eat pork (at least it's not likely to have been halal slaughtered).  Mushrooms can be a sort of substitute - but manufactured stuff is full of baddies.

Hope this helps.

[andres]

It's no laughing matter.

[davebro3]

if you didn't laugh you'd cry...

[Togo]

Mooo. 

[douglas9401]

TB, Measles, Sars, BSE, AIDS, Covid, flesh eating bugs, Winter Vomiting Bug etc etc.

Sells papers for a day or two while the next drama is concocted.

[TwoShortPlanks]

If anything this shows that the screening process is working?

I really don't think it's anything to be concerned about. 

[sandyRoe]

Likely true, not much to worry about.

But where would an isolated case come from?

[douglas9401]

The same place as anything else, Sandy, nature, space or a lab.

[sandyRoe]

To be on the safe side I'm going back to my lentil & carrot curry diet.

It's a bit windy but better safe than sorry.

[youngmafbog]

Nver really does away, just undetected usually.

I am more than happy to tuck into a good steak or two.