Scientist Warns that Farmed Fish Could be a Source of Mad Cow Disease

[NPCKnight]

Scientist Warns that Farmed Fish Could be a Source of Mad Cow Disease
By Jeremy Hance
MongaBay.com, June 17, 2009
Straight to the Source


In a paper that shows just how strange our modern world has become, Robert P. Friedland, neurologist from the University of Louisville, warns that farmed fish could be at risk of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, or mad cow disease.

Currently, farmed fish are fed cow byproducts-a food source they would never find natural environment (unless society started dumping cow carcasses in oceans or lakes).

Friedland and co-authors raise the issue in the Journal of Alzhemier's Disease and call on food regulators to ban feeding cow bone or meat to farmed fish until it can be determined if the practice of feeding fish cow-parts is safe.

"We have not proven that it's possible for fish to transmit the disease to humans. Still, we believe that out of reasonable caution for public health, the practice of feeding rendered cows to fish should be prohibited," Friedland said. "Fish do very well in the seas without eating cows."

Mad cow disease is a fatal disease that can be contracted by eating parts of a cow infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). After an outbreak in Britain due to infected beef, 163 people died.

"The fact that no cases of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease have been linked to eating farmed fish does not assure that feeding rendered cow parts to fish is safe," warns Friedland. "The incubation period of these diseases may last for decades, which makes the association between feeding practices and infection difficult. Enhanced safeguards need to be put in place to protect the public."

Along with cow, farmed fish are also fed significant amounts of antibiotics to keep them disease-and-parasite free. Farmed fish pose additional health hazards due to the possibility of mercury contamination.

[Amado Carrillo Fuentes]

Another reasson to go eat mc donalds lol

good info brah

[nycdude]

Oh hell no! Don't take my big bag of Costco salmon away.

[DR.BB]

You should watch Food, Inc. if you haven't already. Big corporations are destroying the food we eat with disease and chemicals, and even those who try to eat healthy consume tainted foods that likely have more long term dangers than aas use. The FDA should be as aggressive with big companies that spray cans with chemicals as a preservative, throw diseased cattle into the meat supply, etc. The run off from cattle farms filled with disease and chemicals are impacting food crops, etc.

[peteacher]

good lord what is wrong with us. why in the hell are they feeding cows to fish.

[Swede]

good lord what is wrong with us. why in the hell are they feeding cows to fish.

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[Random Letters]

good lord what is wrong with us. why in the hell are they feeding cows to fish.

Same reason they're feeding corn to cows and meat and bone meal to chickens.

It's more cost effective than feeding them their natural diet.

I agree though, it's fucked up and unnatural and nothing good can ultimately come of it.

If you can afford it, buy wild fish, grass fed beef and free range chicken.