Saturday June 20, 2009, 7:08 am
Holy C#ap! See what stupid humans do!... One more reason no to have fish farms also... why do humans do such lame sh#t? Arrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! :(

Saturday June 20, 2009, 7:23 am
The rest of the story ....



In a paper that shows just how strange our modern world has become, Robert P. Friedland, neurologist from the University of Louisville, warns that farmed fish could be at risk of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, or mad cow disease.

Currently, farmed fish are fed cow byproducts—a food source they would never find natural environment (unless society started dumping cow carcasses in oceans or lakes).

Friedland and co-authors raise the issue in the Journal of Alzhemier’s Disease and call on food regulators to ban feeding cow bone or meat to farmed fish until it can be determined if the practice of feeding fish cow-parts is safe.

“We have not proven that it’s possible for fish to transmit the disease to humans. Still, we believe that out of reasonable caution for public health, the practice of feeding rendered cows to fish should be prohibited,” Friedland said. “Fish do very well in the seas without eating cows.”

Mad cow disease is a fatal disease that can be contracted by eating parts of a cow infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). After an outbreak in Britain due to infected beef, 163 people died.

“The fact that no cases of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease have been linked to eating farmed fish does not assure that feeding rendered cow parts to fish is safe,” warns Friedland. “The incubation period of these diseases may last for decades, which makes the association between feeding practices and infection difficult. Enhanced safeguards need to be put in place to protect the public.”

Along with cow, farmed fish are also fed significant amounts of antibiotics to keep them disease-and-parasite free. Farmed fish pose additional health hazards due to the possibility of mercury contamination.

Saturday June 20, 2009, 8:00 am
Now that's one ugly cow. Duh......feed cows to food producing animals (or birds, or fish), then feed the crap-fed animals back to cows....What's wrong with this picture? Government funded scientists say the chance of getting CJD this way are small, but I don't want anyone I know to have to be the one that gets the bullet playing this sick game of roulette our governents foist on us.

Saturday June 20, 2009, 8:51 am
How very interesting! Politicians have been on this diet for years and no one seems to have noticed as they don't seem to die from it, as of course we all know they have no brains in the first place! Another case of what goes around comes around, in an unholy circle! Poor cow can't help it's face lol!

Saturday June 20, 2009, 9:41 am
Sick sick sick!!!!! and more sick. That picture sure is funny. A little Bushy perhaps?

Saturday June 20, 2009, 9:44 am
Ah, very good, Chris, now we know th sordid truth about why our politicians do such daft things... Not to mention that they also fall rapidly ill to Altzheimer's forgetfulness!

Gosh that cow reminds me of somebody... :) :) :)

Saturday June 20, 2009, 10:14 am
Good article. Thanks Ivan.

Saturday June 20, 2009, 10:39 am
Poor fish, poor cows and poor everything else that we humans subject to all this harm and torture for greed and lust. I hate to see what we are doing to them just so that people can slaughter them and eat them. It would serve people right though if they some deadly virus (H1N1) came about due to the our horrible treatment of these animals. Maybe the next virus will be far more deadly and kill off most of the human population. That is where we sadly seem to be headed.

Saturday June 20, 2009, 7:52 pm
Noted/thanks Ivan and Karen for sending. Great article.

Sunday June 21, 2009, 6:57 pm
And people still eat fish??!!

Monday June 22, 2009, 1:09 am
noted cowboss its all sick isn't it?

Monday June 22, 2009, 3:33 am
Thanks Cowboss and noted! That is a scary bovine, lol!

Monday June 22, 2009, 4:43 am
This is just another reason to stop eating all the animals!

Tuesday June 23, 2009, 3:09 am
Before we had the outbreak of the Mad Cow desease in the UK several years ago.It was widely exposed in the News papers that farmers were buying chicken dung from chicken farms along with the bodies of chickens that had died due to the cramped unsanitary conditions in which these birds were kept.This muck was then fed to the cattle on these farms.Scientists at the time heavely criticised this unnatural practice and forcast that something unpleasant would result from it.The news regarding the same kind of practice happening to farmed fish is indeed a worrying thought.