[merylsilverburg]

Originally Posted by Piggle_humsy

I still eat beef, I suppose I'm sorta ignorant to all the news coz Im thinkin yeh I wont get it blah blah blah... I dont eat alot of beef coz my diets based around carbs n veg but I just think everyone has there lifes planned out for them so if Im supposed to get CJD (Human equivalent of BSE: Mad cow disease.) I'll get it.

Piggle
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Yeah, a lot of customers who come to my family's restaurant have that same attitude. A lot of them are eating beef thinking if they get it, they get it.

Originally Posted by YunaDiva05

Well I haven't heard any new news about any mad cow disease lately, and its pretty scary to me because I like steak as well as chicken. I mean that chicken flu thing that was on the news got me pretty scared

Not only is there news about chicken flu but I also heard something about chickens with arsenic.

Originally Posted by Vicious_2003

Personally I think the whole thing has been blown out of proportion. From what I hear even if you ate some of the very rare infected portions the odds are you wont even be affected. But that doesent make good news or scare people so they blow it up and make it seem like your going to die if you eat a hamburger.

See, I also heard about this too. I heard that it was unlikely to really get the disease if you eat beef or a burger. As I read from somewhere, "the possibilities of getting CJD are nil". And it's true how humans tend to overreact or overexaggerate things, so in a way, I do feel skeptical about actually getting it, but yet I'm also pretty paranoid. My dad and some friends ate steak a couple of times over the past few weeks and they're still living.

Originally Posted by kupoartist

If you want a real reason to stop eating beef, think Cattle Ranching in the rainforests of the developing world. The TNCs of this world clear MASSIVE areas of rainforest to graze animals on land which is extremely poor quality without its tree cover (so they have to cut down MORE trees again). Coupled with the masses the fast food chains pull out from the forest for packaging and such, the chances that the planet is screwed are far more likely than people going doolally after eating a burger. But the media doesn't cover that because the news that the planet will be eventually screwed is less important than a few people catching Mad Cow disease.

Oh, I didn't know about this. -_-;;; I knew about the rainforest problem, but I didn't know it also involved cattle ranching. As you said, the media doesn't cover this sort of situation only because the world really doesn't care about what happens to the enviroment. I mean, in the past there were so many activists trying to prevent a lot of things that would harm the enviroment and people trying to stop pollution and all that, but in the end, the majority of people just didn't give a crap. But that's the way people are, as annoying as it may be.