SC - Cucumbers and the SCA

[Stefan li Rous]

>From what I've heard, it's because a) it kills stock and b) it waste's other
stock's muscles, thus making the cow worth less (or no) money at market.

The reason that the UK doesn't want to vaccinate against it is that a) it
would lose it's disease-free status (hasn't it already? It not why not?),
and b) their meat would sell for less at market.

And, of course, the media beats up any story it possibly can to sell
newspapers.

So basically, yes, the whole fuss is about money.

Speaking of which, the EU has banned the sale of T-Bone steaks, as the bone
is the vertibrae, and the spinal cord can get the Mad Cow bits in it from
the brain during the kill. I'm SO glad we don't have Mad Cow in Australia
(apart from the obvious, of course), or we wouldn't know what to do with the
traditional Aussie BBQ. I suppose we'd still have the snags, beer, and the
separation of preparation jobs for women and men, but it just wouldn't be
the same.

Glenda.


- ----- Original Message -----
From: <LrdRas at aol.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, 6 April 2001 12:38
Subject: Re: peta problems (was re: SC - Florilegium -Furs and OT)


> In a message dated 4/5/01 12:25:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> KallipygosRed at aol.com writes:
>
> << and then you
>  have transmittal concerns to humans. >>
>
> Why concerns over transmittal to humans? H & M ONLY infects hooved
animals.
> Any germs that may be taken into the human body  die within 24 to 48 hrs.
If
> vaccinations are required then carriers  would not be a problem because
they
> would not be carriers any longer. They would be vaccinated against the
> disease along with the rest.
>
> It seems that the 2 major issues surrounding H & M are completely invalid.
1)
> spread of the disease would be halted completely by  vaccinating all
animals.
> 2) It cannot be transfered to humans as a disease so there is no need with
> that issue to even be considered.
>
> I suspect that the unwarrented slaughtering and silly human concerns are a
> direct result of MONEY. Think of the millions of dollars being generated
by
> moving troops around, hiring big equipment, etc. as well as by the
selling
> of large number of papers sensationalizing  this easily remedied  problem.
>
> Keeping a problem a problem is big business.
>
> Ras
>
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