Another case of Mad Cow discovered in Canada

Yet another Canadian cow with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) has been detected. The cow was a dairy cow, nearly six and a half years old. It is 19th confirmed case of mad cow disease in Canada’s cattle herd since the first case in 2003. The cow would have been born in 2004 and infected with BSE either in 2004 or 2005, noted U.S. beef cattle advocates with the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund. The age of the infected cow shows that the BSE agent was circulating in Canada’s feed system long after the U.S. Department of Agriculture declared that Canada had its BSE problem under control, R-CALF said. The cow is the 12th BSE-positive animal to meet USDA’s age requirement for export to the United States under a November 2007 rule, R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard said. The USDA allows the U.S. to import cattle from Canada that are over 30 months of age, as long as such cattle were born after March 1, 1999...more