How safe is the cow you eat?

In Nigeria a country where little or no research or tests has been done towards cow safety consumption puts its citizens at potential grave risks.

You're told cow meat is a good source of protein, maybe so. But ever wonder where the cow you eat gets its protein from?
--- The cow of course gets it from the vegetation in the fields. Thus, the protein derived from eating cow meat is nothing but second hand protein.
Common sense bespeaks therefore to endeavour to get your protein first hand from same source as the cow...from the vegetation in the fields. A cow isn't required for good health and living, rather it's consumption especially in Nigeria can have dire consequences.


Mad Cow Disease Fast Facts
CNN Library

Updated at 1957 GMT (0357 HKT) June 4, 2019

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed February 13, 2015, that a case of mad cow disease has been found in Alberta, Canada .

(CNN) — Here's a look at Mad Cow Disease, a fatal brain disease found in cattle.


Facts:

It has been linked to a fatal brain disease in humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD).
The official name of mad cow disease is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). BSE lesions are characterized by sponge-like changes seen under an ordinary microscope.

Eating contaminated meat or other products from cattle (excluding dairy products) with BSE is thought to be the cause of vCJD.

BSE is passed between cows through the practice of recycling bovine carcasses for meat and bone meal protein, which is fed back to other cattle.
Both mad cow disease and vCJD are fatal.

Symptoms of vCJD involve psychiatric symptoms and behavioral changes, movement deficits, memory disturbances and cognitive impairments.

BSE Statistics (Cattle): (source: CDC)
BSE cases in North America 1993-August 2018: 26 cases confirmed, 20 in Canada, and six in the United States. One of the infected cows that died in the United States was born in Canada. One of the infected Canadian cows was imported from the United Kingdom.

vCJD Statistics (Humans): (source: CDC)
Since 1996, 231 vCJD cases have been identified in 12 countries:
United Kingdom - 178
France - 27
Spain - 5
Ireland - 4
United States - 4
Italy - 3
The Netherlands - 3
Portugal - 2
Canada - 2
Japan - 1
Saudi Arabia - 1
Taiwan - 1


Timeline:

1986 - Mad cow disease is first discovered in the United Kingdom. From 1986 through 2001, a British outbreak affects about 180,000 cattle and devastates farming communities.

January 1993 - The BSE epidemic in Britain reaches its peak with almost 1,000 new cases being reported per week.

1996 - The first case of vCJD is reported.

1996-1999 - The European Union bans British beef. France continues the ban for an additional three years.

May 20, 2003 - Canada's first case of mad cow disease is confirmed in an eight-year-old cow in Alberta. Canadian officials say the cow did not enter the food chain.

May 21, 2003 - Mexico, Japan and South Korea join the United States in temporarily banning Canadian beef.

December 23, 2003 - The US Department of Agriculture confirms the first case of mad cow disease in the United States. The infected cow is discovered on a farm in Washington State in early December. Japan, China and South Korea stop the importation of US beef. The infected cow was born in Canada, in April 1997 - just four months before the United States and Canada began banning the use of brain and spinal cord tissue in cattle feed.

January 9, 2004 - The USDA says it will begin destroying about 130 cattle that were "herd mates" of the cow that tested positive for the first-ever US case of mad cow disease.

January 26, 2004 - New safeguards against mad cow disease are announced by the Food and Drug Administration. They include banning chicken waste from cattle feed and barring restaurant meat scraps from being used in animal feed.

January 28, 2004 - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission launches an investigation into whether some commodity futures market players may have known about the first US case of mad cow disease before it was announced to the public.

June 20, 2004 - Charlene Singh, the first person known to live in the United States with vCJD, dies.

January 2, 2005 - Canadian health authorities confirm that test results have identified a 10-year-old dairy cow in Alberta as having mad cow disease. This is Canada's second case of BSE in two years.

June 24, 2005 - The second US case of BSE is confirmed.

March 13, 2006 - The third US case of BSE is confirmed after an Alabama cow tests positive.

September 5, 2008 - Canadian scientists announce a discovery that paves the way for diagnostic testing of live cattle, rather than postmortem.

September 13, 2008 - An Alabama research study shows that mad cow disease can sometimes be caused by genetic mutations.

March 10, 2009 - An anti-malaria drug known as quinacrine, which had reportedly shown promise against mad cow disease, is found to have no effect on the disease according to a British medical study.

March 14, 2009 - The US government permanently bans the slaughter of cows too sick or weak to stand on their own, seeking to further minimize the contraction of mad cow disease.

April 24, 2012 - The USDA confirms the fourth case of BSE, found in a dairy cow from central California. The announcement maintains that the cow was never presented for slaughter for human consumption and poses no risk.

March 2014 - After 15 years, the United States lifts the ban on beef from the European Union, pending inspections.

June 11, 2014 - The USDA announces a recall of 4,000 pounds of beef; a spokesperson cites "an abundance of caution." The meat comes out of the Fruitland American Meat processing plant in Jackson, Missouri.

March 24, 2016 - France confirms the first case of BSE since 2011.

October 18, 2018 - Scotland confirms an "isolated case" of mad cow disease has been discovered on a farm in Aberdeen.

More to come...

As earlier stated, in a Nigeria where continued research and tests on cows for human consumption is rear, it at all exists...
The wise will eat goat, chicken, lamb, sheep, etc.

QUIT, STOP EATING COW MEAT.

You don't need to eat cow meat.
Eat cow meat at your own risk.


SAY NO TO RUGA COLONIES.

It's an abomination moreso with all its political intricacies and innuendos, rise and protect your ancestral lands, your lives now and unborn generations with ALL means necessary.

History has it that, Othman Dan Fodio and his henchmen were granted land in the North when they first arrived in Nigeria. Within a short time, they deceitfully killed and conquered their hosts and the men of the land and took over their women and the land and commenced the jihad.

Let history not repeat itself at your peril. Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it!

Any leader, governor or group on favor of RUGA is a sell-out to the people and should be dealt with accordingly.

The West, South South, East, must as a matter of urgency set aside their differences and unite to reject, resist and fight this formidable terroristic Jihadists pillaging under the canopy and masks of herdsmen.

North Africa, parts or West and East Africa once were Absolute Christian nations. The reverse is the case today. It's the way of the terroristic jihadists, sleek, pretentious, deceitful and ruthless.

Give the beggar an inch, they take a mile. Don't, Don't, Don't even think of giving an inch of your land to no one or government, else you'd be enslaved or become history.
Just a matter of time and it's already knocking...care not who is there.
Don't open, don't relent, don't succumb.

Listen and hearken to the warnings of the elders, Obasanjo, Danjuma, et al, they know these snakes better you, better than most. God bless their hearts. God bless us all.

It is my strong wish and prayers that the Igbos and Yorubas in these clear and present dangerous deadly times Unite and discard the potential and ravaging evil demons masquerading as herdsman. Ye have eyes, see with them, ye have ears, hear with them.
Fall not a victim to the old divide and rule political tactics that do overcome and enslave your people.
It's worked in the old, it will work in the new, it will always work!


SAY ABSOLUTE UNCOMPROMISED NO NO NO TO THE ANATHEMA IN DISGUISE OF RUGA COMMUNITIES/ COLONIES.

Let the cow owners keep and care for their cows in their own land.
It shouldn't be imposed on other people and their ancestral lands.
Total nauseating bull. If they don't have enough space for their god-forsaken moos, let them reduce the population and breeding to accommodate them. The herdsmen are uninvited perilous abomination to anywhere South of the Niger/ Benue.

The North have largest land mass in Nigeria. Graze your herds out there and feed your people with it.
We the people, South of the Niger & Benue rivers need not your pathetic cows and will resist and conquer the satanic fulani ethnic cleansing agenda by all means necessary. We will graze our own herds as needed.

A word is enough for the wise, I pray as a people, we will not cry over spilled milk. A stitch in time saves nine. Rwanda comes to mind.

Our Epileptic, selfish, self-centred, governance called 'democracy' since inception has done and continue to cause more harm than good in all ramifications. Maybe it's high time it's discarded, at least for now.

I also buy in the notion if need be that each state as we have it today should become independent sovereign states with its own President and government for its own people (that's the restructuring I hope for) if need be, for we aren't United as a people. There's no One Nigeria. It's a failed experiment, If it ever was one.
A BIG LIE. A selfish perilous deception.

Bo le ya, ko ya.
Ojo kin pa ewe ikoko.

We are the Oduduwas.
We are the Biafrans.
We are the chosen.

Tick tock tick tock tick tock clicks the hands of time....



Blessed be.



Alaafia

Oyorubas now remember southern unity.

I just love how this Ruga nonsense is making them run like headless chickens because they know that it is only in their useless region with their useless leaders that Ruga will come to existence.

Are they really inspecting the health status of cows before slaughtering?
Anyways goat meat full market.

OP, good topic and input!

MetaPhysical:
OP, good topic and input!

When FFK said he has stopped eating beef because of fulanis raping cows, you begin rant like mad man

Until the philosophy
Which hold one tribe superior and another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned
Everywhere is war
Me say war

That until there's no longer killings, land grabbing,
First class and second class citizens of any nation
Until the color of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the color of his eyes
Me say war
That until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all
Without regard to tribe and ethnicity
Dis a war

That until that day
The dream of lasting peace,
Nigeria citizenship
Rule of Islamisation morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never attained
Now everywhere is war
War

And until the ignoble and terrorist regime
That hold our brothers in north
In middle belt
In Southwest
Sub-human bondage
Have been toppled
Utterly destroyed…

It's a war.

The South, East, Middle belt and west shall win, for we are confident in the victory of good over evil.

Take it to the bank.


Edited
(Bob Marley: War)


Alaafia

MY YORUBA MUSLIM BRETHREN ARE THE PROBLEM OF THIS COUNTRY.