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[haute 4 teacher]

Even the god damn colleges are going to protest.

Aren't they supposed to be the smart ones?

So sick of the ignorance and misinformation........


mad cow is not a problem!!!

[IncognitoHFX]

[Kiarell]

you're the morons, mad cow is a huge problem in North America; the regulatory agencies are beholden to large agribusinesses and a re a complete joke, much the same other top-heavy organiztions like the US EPA are.

Mad cow is quite rampant. It's non-existent within the cows that are actually TESTED, the vast, vast majority are not. For an idea on how blissfully ignorant and propagandized people under US control are, look at drugs. When they do clinical trials for anti-depressants they throw out the data for test subjects who have to quit the trials because the drugs messed them up so badly. So if 20 out of 30 people go nuts from anti-depressants or attempt suicide the data is discarded. Of the 10 who remain, if the drug worked for 8 of them the drug is considered a success. The companies KNOW much that the consumers don't. Agent Orange, DDT, the companies knew from day one.

Additionally, this is about communal control over food. In a society decisions should be communal, localized, and democratic. This is a public health issue as well as an erosion of localized food production.

[caniff]

[Grab the Chickens Levi]

[Jeweltone]

Never mind....

[Roving_gypsy_gurl]

I'm beginning to think the issue is less mad cow and a bit more the 2MB government's handling of the issue.

The people feel like their concerns have been brushed aside in a sort of totilitarian "we do what we want because we are in charge" sort of way. Instead of producing evidence of safety and a show of flexibility, those in charge have chosen to respond with dominance. The more individualistic younger Koreans don't like this. 2MB was a controversial choice for president to begin with and especially unpopular with the younger generation. And he's turned out to be the sort of president that they feared he'd be. They're reacting more to that than to any health threat.

I'm sure there's also a lot of ignorance over the issue and quite a few people who believe that they are going to die if their beef comes from the US. But it's not the whole source of the protests, nor is it the key motivator for a lot of what's happening.

[ernie]

you've hit the nail on the head ^... it's not WHAT he's doing, but HOW he's doing it!

[komerican]

"The scientist who headed the U.K. government's Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee, James Pattison, had even admitted that millions of people could already be incubating the disease, which is indetectable, incurable, always fatal and invisible for years or even decades before emerging as an Alzheimer's-like killer."

http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1998Q1/oprah.html

Since there are a lot of things that are unknown about this disease it's probably smart to err on the safe side.

Also, there is no freedom of speech on this issue in the US. A few years ago Oprah, a US talk show host, was sued by some cattle ranchers for even associating mad cow (BSE) disease with US cattle on her show.

[Grab the Chickens Levi]

[RJjr]

To the credit of the Koreans, they show a lot of zeal about a perceived danger before it happens. In America, we won't protest the Iraq war until a draft begins and we have to worry about our own asses getting shot at.

[caniff]

[steroidmaximus]

[daemyann]

I think this thread has already shown how far reaching the misinformation is, which had made it's title seem brash, hypocritical and unproductive, and thus should implode in on itself.

please preempt it's collapse into nothingness by closing it.

[komerican]