Originally posted by Azeari of the Radiant Eye
Originally posted by soficrow
Re: reducing the # of individual animals. ...My research says that different strains fight with one another in the body - ie., compete for the same
prey - and the body comes out ahead. So my thinking is, a varied diet with more strains is better...
That may be true if you believe that basically ALL food animals are infected.
The evidence shows that most species have some strain of prion disease, likely several different ones - prions mutate to jump from one species to
another and generally, each species has different strains.
The goat with Mad Cow was an unusual case - the goat had the BSE strain of Mad Cow - meaning the exact strain jumped the species barrier without
mutating.
On the other hand, if it's still relatively rare, then consuming a fewer number of individual animals seems to make sense.
Or perhaps I'm missing something...
The BSE prion strain per se might be rare - but probably not. ...More important - and uncounted - are all the other strains floating around.
(OK, I admit I haven't had time to read all the links...)
Yep. You gotta. Shows how widespread prion diseases are - why - where they come from - how they're created, spread and transmitted....
The cattle are bred, born, live, die and are processed right there on site. They process one animal at a time, so you always know which animal your
steak - and, more importantly your ground beef - comes from. Same with pigs & lambs.
As I'm not (and will probably never be) ready to go veggie, this seems like the plan that best fits the facts as I know them.
As long as you mix it up (beef, pigs, lamb) - sounds like a plan (re: different strains in each species.
...I won't go veggie either - don't think there's any point. Seems clear soil and water are contaminated, and these little suckers really get
around - not just jumping species barriers, but kingdom barriers too....
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Good link. Thanks.
