Mad Cow Disease Essay

It has been taken over by large companies and marketed at high price. Our food is grown based on demand, not on health. In the film, Food, Inc., the chickens and cows are raised to be slaughtered as quick as possible. They are beefed up with feed that is full of antibiotics that become harmful for digestion. The chicken that are raised are in small areas where they have never been exposed to sunlight. There are plenty that die each day because of the conditions they are being kept in. The chicken’s organs cannot keep up with their growth, therefore, they cannot take two steps. Cows are basically in the same situation as the chickens. They are being fed corn instead of grass and are confined to small areas. Listening to the documentary about how the chances of cows being cleaned before slaughtered is traumatizing. That is the food that we eat and how we are supposed to have our intake of energy. If this is how the industry is treating the population we have today, I do not see much difference for the population

Horse slaughter has been going on for a long time now and humans have increased their horsemeat consumption because of the mad cow disease. Mad cow disease is issued from the fattening foods farmers give to their cattle. In the food are sheep’s’ bones grinded into tiny, tiny bits. Ignorant till the outburst, makers didn’t know that in sheep bones there is the virus of the dreaded disease. The disease doesn’t affect sheep as it is only in their bones but when the cows eat it, it gets into their systems and is passed on through their meat to humans.

The meats that consumers eat are slabs of a cow’s muscle tissue and the infectious meat is only found in the nerve tissue. Of course there is the possibility of having some of the contaminated meat passed on to the meat that consumers eat when the cows are cut, but the chances are very slim. Since this disease is contracted through eating contaminated meat, the site of infection should be in the digestive tract, yet this disease eats away at the brain and nervous system.

Mad cow disease is to serious and deadly that it is not worth the risk of eating beef from a feedlot. Michael Pollan stated, "Mad cow is a brain disease that is always fatal. It is spread by eating the brains of infected animals" (56). Clearly mad cow disease will kill anyone that gets infected so it is not worth the risk to eat CAFO beef. In addition, "Ground-up cattle brains were put into cattle feed and some of those cows got mad cow disease. Human beings who ate infected beef also got the disease..." (Pollan and Chevat 56). This shows how completely unnatural CAFOs are and why people should not eat or buy CAFO meat. It also illustrates just how dangerous mad cow disease is; that people should be cautious by boycotting CAFO beef. However, an author for the Los Angeles Times, Paul Roberts said, “there has never been a confirmed case of mad cow disease connected with anyone eating U.S. beef" (Rodgers). Evidently getting mad cow disease in the U.S. is unlikely. Pollan retaliated by saying "Then people in England began dying of a sickness called mad cow disease" (55-56). This shows that although people have not eaten infected beef in the U.S. they have in other places. Therefore if people want to stay safe then they should not eat the beef produced in CAFOs so that they do not get mad cow

“I aimed for the public’s hearts, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.” This quote was in response to the reaction of Upton Sinclair’s ground breaking exposé, “The Jungle”. On February 26, 1906 Sinclair shocked the Nation by exposing the horrors of slaughter houses and meat packing plants. Thousands of people have died from food-borne illnesses. E-coli, along with other diseases resulting from filthy food processing was revealed as the murderer. As shocking as it might have been back then, it is even more alarming to find out that conditions have not improved in the last one hundred nine years. Food-borne illnesses are still an extremely common occurrence. People should not have to worry about whether their purchased food, food that was “approved” by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is safe to eat. Consumers shouldn’t have to worry about tainted or dirty meat. Cleaner meat packing facilities and stricter meat regulation on the part of the USDA should be a standard. Eating a burger should not have to be a life or death situation.

     Mad Cow Disease, scientifically referred to as (BSE) Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, is a disease that affects those humans who eat the meat from infected cows. Mad Cow Disease is one of several fatal brain diseases called (TSE) Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy. (USDA) There was evidence of a new illness resembling the sheep disease scrapie. It was technically named BSE but quickly acquired the mad cow tag because of the way infected cattle behave. (CNN) In 1997, there was an award given to Stanley Prusiner, for concluding that a distorted protein called a prion was responsible for Mad Cow Disease, noted the long incubation period made it difficult to distinguish (Bryant).

The research methods used for this thesis are primary and secondary sources. Many of these sources come from 20th century primary and secondary sources however; there are a few primary resources located from the latter part of the 19th century, which will be utilized in this master’s thesis. The majority of these resources will come from the 20th century sources in the fact that many of these are first and second hand accounts of those who worked directly with the cattle barons during their peak in the Wyoming Territory and State. The basis of this thesis will be to focus on the influence the cattle barons had on the political, social and economic parameters of Wyoming, however placing emphasizes on the capital city of Cheyenne wherein the focal point of much of this corruption was centered. There are a several great primary sources which can be drawn from giving

As my job this year deer knocked off the insulators a lot and cattle got free it happened quit often and it was a lot of work getting cattle back in the lot. The Chronic Wasting Disease is another problem that doesn’t happen too much but has before. It is when deer or any of the deer family start to starve to death. This can be spread onto to cattle when the deer are eating mineral or feed that are for the cattle, it also can be spread when deer drink from the same water as the cattle. If the cattle get it it is another form of mad cow disease, and if we as people eat the steer that has a form of it before it is slaughtered then we can get really sick.

Although mad-cow disease is always fatal, it is not really much of a worry in the United States. There have only been four cases of mad-cow disease ever recorded in the United States. In every case, the United States Department of Agriculture has intervened and recalled tons of beef, 10,400 lbs. in the first case to be exact, in order to insure that the meat did not reach the plates of United States citizens.

Chapter eight of the textbook, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism Containing and Preventing Biological Threats, by Jeffrey R. Ryan, goes into extensive detail on the important role that agriculture plays in the United States food supply. Due to the fact that agriculture plays a large part in the enhancing and sustaining of society as a whole, it is terrifying when diseases begin to take root. One of the major threats the United States faces, when it comes to agriculture, is forging animal diseases, or FAD (Ryan, 2016, p. 187). To better explain, FAD is considered to be serious animal diseases that are not conceived in the United States (Ryan, 2016,

Mad Cow disease has been heavily spoken about on the international news. Our hopes are that the disease will not spread into the United States, even though several people have died from the disease.

In ANIMAL FARM, Orwell shows how both the leaders and the followers in a society can act in ways that destroy freedom and equality. Choose one leader and one follower from the novel and explain how the behavior of each contributes to the loss of freedom and equality on Animal Farm.

One case of animal abuse in the U.S. food industry is the Central Valley Meat Co, located in Hanford, California. Employees at the Hanford Slaughterhouse were caught on video killing cows violently and inhumanely, neglecting to render cows unconscious before slaughter, and other forms of abuse. Many of the cows appeared to be sick and unable to walk as well. Under federal rules, sick animals can’t be slaughtered for human consumption. (Nidever)

”Every day in the United states, roughly 200,000 people are sickened by a foodborne disease, 900 are hospitalized, and fourteen die,” said Schlosser; these statistics are astonishing! These food borne diseases are a result of thousands of cattle sitting in their own feces contaminating each other with pathogens. Afterwards the infected cattle are then slaughtered and given to thousands of people in the country and even the world. On 2010, my mom made beef tacos for dinner. The next day all eight of us got food poisoning and started vomiting for four days. Since that day, when I eat beef my stomach doesn’t feel the same. As I read fast food nation, I learned that 50% of beef contain E. coli 0157:H7. When I was young I didn’t comprehend food

Then later we got rid of the dairy cattle and went into a cow calve farm for meat purposes. Our cattle did not get fed food with a bunch of antibiotics in it. Only medicated feed we fed them was mineral that helped keep flies off their body so they would not get pink eye. Pink eye if not caught in time will cause an animal to become blind and then they become