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murmanjake
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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 Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:17 pm Post subject: FMD Milk Stench |
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2932019
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But dairy farms within a 500 meter (1,640 feet) radius of an FMD outbreak are also obligated to throw away all their milk, which could possibly be tainted. Because dairy cows get sick if not milked, farms cannot just stop production. So local farmers milk the cows and then throw it away to the tune of 200 tons a day in February, according to the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. That�s the equivalent of a million 200 milliliter cartons of milk.
Medically speaking, eating a diseased cow�s meat or drinking its milk won�t hurt you, but modern consumers wouldn�t put up with the idea.
Even throwing away milk is a major problem for farmers because pouring it down drains isn�t allowed. |
Really is that all? Consumers being picky? |
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murmanjake
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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ok, wikipediaed it....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-and-mouth_disease
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Humans can be infected with foot-and-mouth disease through contact with infected animals, but this is extremely rare. Some cases were caused by laboratory accidents. Because the virus that causes FMD is sensitive to stomach acid, it cannot spread to humans via consumption of infected meat, except in the mouth before the meat is swallowed. In the UK, the last confirmed human case occurred in 1966,[8][9] and only a few other cases have been recorded in countries of continental Europe, Africa, and South America. Symptoms of FMD in humans include malaise, fever, vomiting, red ulcerative lesions (surface-eroding damaged spots) of the oral tissues, and sometimes vesicular lesions (small blisters) of the skin. According to a newspaper report, FMD killed two children in England in 1884, supposedly due to infected milk.[10]
There is another viral disease with similar symptoms, commonly referred to as "hand, foot and mouth disease", that occurs more frequently in humans, especially in young children; the cause, Coxsackie A virus, is different from FMDV. Coxsackie viruses belong to the Enteroviruses within the Picornaviridae.
Because FMD rarely infects humans, but spreads rapidly among animals, it is a much greater threat to the agriculture industry than to human health. Farmers around the world can lose huge amounts of money during a foot-and-mouth epizootic, when large numbers of animals are destroyed and revenues from milk and meat production go down. |
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murmanjake
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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| Epidemics of FMD have resulted in the slaughter of millions of animals, despite this being a frequently nonfatal disease for adult animals (2-5% mortality), though young animals can have a high mortality. The Taiwan outbreak that only affected pigs also showed a high mortality for adults. The destruction of animals is primarily to halt further spread, as growth and milk production may be permanently affected, even in animals that have recovered. Due to international efforts to eradicate the disease, infection would also lead to trade bans being imposed on affected countries. Critics of current policies to cull infected herds argue that the financial imperative needs to be balanced against the killing of many animals,[41] especially when a significant proportion of infected animals, most notably those producing milk, would recover from infection and live normal lives, albeit with reduced milk production. |
Always thought the disease was fatal for some reason... |
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akcrono
Joined: 11 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Just another case of people freaking the (DOODILY) out over nothing. |
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sojusucks
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:06 am Post subject: |
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| akcrono wrote: |
| Just another case of people freaking the (DOODILY) out over nothing. |
The culling is necessary and that can cost a great deal of money for the losses and the eventual cost to consumers and taxpayers. |
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the ireland
Joined: 11 May 2008
Location: korea
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:26 am Post subject: Re: FMD Milk Stench |
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2932019
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But dairy farms within a 500 meter (1,640 feet) radius of an FMD outbreak are also obligated to throw away all their milk, which could possibly be tainted. Because dairy cows get sick if not milked, farms cannot just stop production. So local farmers milk the cows and then throw it away to the tune of 200 tons a day in February, according to the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. That�s the equivalent of a million 200 milliliter cartons of milk.
[Medically speaking, eating a diseased cow�s meat or drinking its milk won�t hurt you, but modern consumers wouldn�t put up with the idea.
Even throwing away milk is a major problem for farmers because pouring it down drains isn�t allowed. |
I like that they wanted an impressive number of cartons. So they went with 200ml cartons. I can't imagine too many families by 200ml cartons very often. |
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interestedinhanguk
Joined: 23 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:11 am Post subject: Re: FMD Milk Stench |
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| the ireland wrote: |
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2932019
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But dairy farms within a 500 meter (1,640 feet) radius of an FMD outbreak are also obligated to throw away all their milk, which could possibly be tainted. Because dairy cows get sick if not milked, farms cannot just stop production. So local farmers milk the cows and then throw it away to the tune of 200 tons a day in February, according to the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. That�s the equivalent of a million 200 milliliter cartons of milk.
[Medically speaking, eating a diseased cow�s meat or drinking its milk won�t hurt you, but modern consumers wouldn�t put up with the idea.
Even throwing away milk is a major problem for farmers because pouring it down drains isn�t allowed. |
I like that they wanted an impressive number of cartons. So they went with 200ml cartons. I can't imagine too many families by 200ml cartons very often. |
That's 40,576,827.2 teaspoons of milk! |
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