LABJ FORUM – Red Meat Blues

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LABJ FORUM – Red Meat Blues

Cattle futures fell much of last week amid ongoing concerns about the discovery of mad cow disease in a Washington state cow. While the risks of the disease being passed to humans was considered quite low, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a ban on the sale of meat from so-called downer cattle the type of animal that tested positive for mad cow. And the ban on U.S. beef imports remained in effect. So the Business Journals asks:

Have you had any second thoughts about eating meat since mad cow disease was discovered in the United States?

David E. Coleman

Engineering Specialist

Northrop Grumman Corp.

Not at all. I think the food supply in this country is safe. It looks like it came from a Canadian cow anyway, and it’s probably an isolated case. In fact, I’m going out to get some steak right now.

Eduardo Maal

Chief Executive

PC Mango Computer Consulting Services

Not in the least. I ate meat yesterday. I ate meat today. I think the odds of getting hit by that thing are pretty slim. I’m not worried about it.

Frank Stiefel

Executive Vice President

@radical.media Inc.

I have not. I’d say that in the Olympics of fear, this one didn’t get a bronze. I do eat beef, probably a couple times a week. I figured I had a better chance of getting smallpox than I did of getting mad cow disease. I’m intellectually concerned by anything that could have such an effect on our economy, and I’m certainly concerned for anyone whose livelihood is dependent on it. At my house, we’re making lobster and salmon for New Year’s Eve dinner, no beef, but not because of mad cow disease.

Susan Love

Medical Director

Susan Love MD Breast Cancer Research Foundation

I actually stopped eating red meat several years ago and managed to escape the excesses of the Atkins diet and so I have no second thoughts at all.

Dena Duran

Licensed Vocational Nurse

Harbor UCLA Research and Education Institute

No. I just had filet mignon yesterday. Apparently it’s passed along through the brain and the spinal fluid and I am not having any of that. I don’t think there’s much risk of contamination because they only found one cow and there’s no way that one cow can get all the way across the United States.

Terry Fahy

Vice President and General Manager

Salem Los Angeles Group of Stations

No. The extremely small occurrence of this in our country is not enough for me to change my eating habits. It is much more dangerous to drive the L.A. freeways.

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