Want to Live Longer? Cut Back on Red Meat.

[vlad321]

Wookaroo said:

That's what I wonder. With such a long incubation period, will cases start springing up all over the place years down the road? It could be pretty bad!

I'm hoping it won't crop up, but I can't help but think about the typical US diet. Burgers, ground beef in virtually everything, steak, you name it! Breakfast, lunch, and dinner! There's got to many infected if the info we have on the disease is correct.

Heck, it takes years for the diesease to fully develop in cattle! Just think how hard it would be to control it without a mass culling...

 

Well we don't know whether or not the disease has been around or not, since they don't really check many cows at all. Worst case scenario, most of the US population dies out due to Mad Cow and the vegetarians and the few who didn't eat much beef get to point and say "I told you so." Best case scenario, nothing happens. I just don't want to graduate to hear that I'm gonna die anyhow because of eating some cow 10 years ago.