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Franken-Heifers Immune to Mad CowPosted on Jan 3, 2007
Using a combination of genetic engineering and cloning, scientists from the U.S. and Japan have successfully eliminated the protein that causes mad cow disease. So far the cows in the lab have proven immune to the illness, which shreds its victims’ brains, driving them mad.
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By Mad Cow Disease, April 20, 2011 at 1:27 am Link to this comment
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At present, it appears that the main way people get the disease is from eating contaminated meat,it takes years, if not decades, from the time someone is exposed to the disease until the first signs appear. After the first signs appear, the brain can deteriorate within a year
Report thisBy jim stillwaggon, January 4, 2007 at 9:56 am Link to this comment
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Beefeater’s comment above could have fallen from my own lips: Thankyou Beefeater.
I will simply add that this ‘great piece of research’ reminds me of my daughter, who puts pans under the roof when there’s a leak. And when eventually the pan rusts through, she puts another larger pan under the first.
One last remark (as a cheesemaker in Switzerland): cows are best off eating hay, grass, and a few cereals. Silage is already pushing it. Meat products do not belong in a cow’s diet. Period.
Report thisBy Quy Tran, January 3, 2007 at 7:19 pm Link to this comment
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Mad cows are still much better than Pat Robertson
Report thisBy Tobias, January 3, 2007 at 6:39 pm Link to this comment
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Great comments!
Free up the industry, so they can make money off their waste again!
A cow may be immune, but that doesn’t mean squate if a human is not!
Experts can be wrong you know. I’ll bet some expert told George and Barbara once their little boy would be fine.
Report thisBy Ira, January 3, 2007 at 4:36 pm Link to this comment
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Gotta love animal testing….when will the mad scientists be able to genetically modify humans so they don’t get CJD?
Report thisBy Beefeater, January 3, 2007 at 8:57 am Link to this comment
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Yahoo! Now we can feed the cows ANYTHING! Lets start digging up corpses and use them as cattle feed. Will free up all that wasted space used for stupid graveyards. Maybe CJD resitant cattle will be the answer to our growing garbage problem as well? Corporate Greed: Is there anything it can’t do??
Report thisBy Linda, January 3, 2007 at 8:21 am Link to this comment
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Great for the cows. The question is if these same animals are fed prion-contaminated food, can they pass the infectious prions to humans who eat them? It’s not that I don’t care about whether or not the cattle become infected; I care about the humans who eat them, among which I most likely will not be counted.
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