Nabbed at Customs

On Apr 13, 8:20?am, Michel Boucher wrote:

Large companies know to obtain a health certificate, and they likely
practice -- and document compliance with -- a HAACP protocol. People
randomly stuffing food in a suitcase do not.

It was a great day when serrano hams were allowed to be imported into
the US, and now even a mom and pop storefront can do it.
 
"spamtrap1888" ha scritto nel messaggio

I remember the butter wrapper used to say it came from tuberculin tested
cows. But any beverage that originates so close to a cow's
rectum might pick up some bacteria.

^^^^
Seriously! Where do you think the milk comes out? Let me give you a hint,
it's not near the rectum.
 
spamtrap1888 wrote in news:324d474e-991d-
[email protected]:


From lying down in a pasture.

--
The Bible! Because all the works of science cannot equal the
wisdom of cattle-sacrificing primitives who thought every
animal species in the world lived within walking distance of
Noah's house.
 
spamtrap1888 wrote in news:30ca3631-fd41-
[email protected]:


However, cooked food is cooked food and the likelihood that a
length of sausage could contain bacteria that could seriously
affect livestock in this day and age is paranoid at best. Such
measures are more for the benefit of the US sausage industry.

Cattle regularly crosses the border between Canada and the US,
sometimes many times during an animal's life to go to pasture
grounds. No one checks each animal and asks it to cough. However,
the US regularly bans all Canadian beef if there is a single case
of BSE, blaming Canada when it could just as easily have come from
the US...in fact there is no way of knowing.

Unfortunately, our former half-assed government never took to
banning US beef which would have been a reasonable countervailing
measure given that no one has any clue where the disease
originated.

--

The Bible! Because all the works of science cannot equal the
wisdom of cattle-sacrificing primitives who thought every
animal species in the world lived within walking distance of
Noah's house.
 
Jim wrote:


Bovine TB isn't the only danger from raw milk. I have a friend who used to
be a star athlete until he got Reiter's Syndrome after drinking raw milk.
Now he can barely walk.

Bob
 
Steve Pope wrote:

The horn I have (does anyone know how to remove the gunk inside to get
it working as a drinking horn?) is from a farmer in Texas. I have seen
a small number of water buffaloes in Oregon. I have no idea how many
water buffaloes there are in the US. It's tiny compared to the number
of regular cattle. But it's there are enough that I occasionally see
the cheese in specialty store. It's got to be hundreds across the
continent. Maybe even thousands.

If you want a tiny population cow relative there's the yak. I've seen
*one* at a state fair once. Near it was a sign that said "This yak does
not know she isn't a cow". Okay, looking at the yak I didn't know
either. She didn't look like the dairy cattle I remember when I was a
kid but plenty of beef cattle I've seen looked a lot more different than
the Jerseys and Guernseys I remember and that I see out in pastures.
For water buffaloes their milk makes motzerella di buffala so there's
a small amount of commercial motivation to grow them. I don't know of
any commercial motivation to grow yaks. They're a cool oddity that a
prosperous cattle farmer might want to keep for fun is all I can
figure.

Even musk oxen are grown for their wool. I can't imagine shearing a
musk ox. I've seen films of them charging a helicopter. Who in their
right mind would ever want to shear a musk ox, but I've seen the wool
for sale. I'll get items of alpaca wool before I get items of musk ox
wool. For some reason alpacas are now so common I drive past a couple
of ranches that have them.
 
On 13/04/2011 12:32 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:
pamtrap1888" ha scritto nel messaggio


Cows can get pretty dirty and their shit is runny when it is fresh.
Sometimes it just drips down there. Cows shit in their stalls and in
pastures. The spend a lot of time lying down. They really don't care if
they lay down in their own shit and piss.
 
Janet wrote:

[Bovine TB]


You're right. And you're right that it can be transmitted
through milk. But it is controlled even if not eradicated;
that I have heard of it is not found in raw milk products in the U.S.,
and I have not heard of any cases of human TB happening via raw milk TB
transmission in the U.S. -- I really suspect this has not happened
for decades.

We do however have radioiodine in our milk now, whether or not it's raw.

Steve
 
Bob Terwilliger wrote:


I am sorry to hear about your friend's illness.

If I got Reiter's syndrome, it seems you could correctly state that I
got Reiter's syndrome after drinking raw milk.

Steve
 
In article , [email protected] says...

It is still present in wildlife in some states

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10319-99064--,00.html

In Michigan bovine TB has been found in white-tailed deer, elk, black
bear, bobcat, coyote, opossum, raccoon, and red fox.

In the U.S. today, the threat of humans contracting bovine TB from animals
is extremely remote. Health officials have confidence in the state's meat
and milk supply.

At risk are Michigan's deer herd and other wildlife species with their
many social, ecological, and economic values as well as Michigan's
livestock industry. By continuing to eliminate TB-infected animals from
wild and domestic animal populations, paying close attention to the meat
inspection and pasteurization processes, using proper food handling, and
good management practices, the chance of bovine TB transmission from
animals to humans is virtually eliminated."

end quote

Janet.
 
On Apr 9, 11:18?am, "Tom Del Rosso" wrote:

==
Yes, they would confiscate it...WE don't want foot and mouth disease
or rinderpest here either.
==
 
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