Mad Cow Disease - Milk?

its not kosher to ask that question

MAD COW DIEASE - MILK
a/t the u.s. food and drug administration, milk and milk-by-products (presumably cheese, yoghurt ... ) from infected cows have so far not tested BSE-positive . you can read the report here : MAD COW DISEASE

It is unlikely that the milk will test positive, ever. The infectious agent in BSE is a mutated from of a protein called prions, which are found on nerve endings, particularly in the brain and spinal cord. Prions have nothing to do with milk production in a cow.

actually milk does have proteins in it. I would switch to soy milk just to be safe. Cows milk wasn't meant for us to drink anyway.

Cages cause cancer in laboratory animals.

was soymilk destined to be consumed by humans ? just wondering. hbg

actually hamburger....I do believe it was Breast Milk that was meant to be consumed by humans.

detergent : now you are talking . i understand in china it was/is the custom to feed feeble old men with breastmilk to give them strenght again. hbg

http://www.totallytom.com/MadCow.html

Whether prions are detectable in cow's milk will depend on the assay method used as well as its sensitivity. It's likely that prions are present in the milk, but at a level too dilute for detection by currently available methods.

(HIV is present in human milk from infected females.)

I would drink milk from a cow before eating it's beef,
mostly because it's hard to milk a half-eaten cow.

But apart from that, try Rice Dream and tempeh stir-fry . . . yumm!

How about some goat milk?

OK, so you can take Rense.com at face value, or with a grain of salt, but he has several running topics about BSE (and even about the safety and health of cow's milk and milk products). Here's one:

Mad Cow in Blood and Milk

FWIW, I drink soy milk exclusively (we have a great brand here -- I think it's national -- called Silk; the chocolate and French vanilla varieties in particular are delicious), eat butter and cheese sparingly and exclusively in restaurant-prepared foods, eat a lot of ice cream and frozen yogurt, and eat some beef but no ground beef (hamburgers were the toughest for me to quit; harder than cigarettes).

I don't like soy milk.

From what I have read (sorry, it wasn't an online source, or I'd try to link), there have not been any incidents of BSE passing from mother to calf through milk consumption, which is why milk is not considered to be a potential source of nvCJD

Oh boy. Prions (if the causitive agent in BSE and there is debate about this in the scientific community) are "found" in neural tissue. Last I checked, milk isn't produced via this type of tissue.

detergent? *LMAO* Maybe it's my warped sense of humour, but I find you often crack me up!

I don't think you can correlate the migration of prions with that of HIV. HIV can usually be found in any body fluid of an infected individual.