Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Pencil Me In For The Zombie Apocalypse Legends of the risen dead have come from most of the world’s cultures in order to encourage fear or hope-based obedience. However, countries like England, Germany, and America have begun to use such concepts to entertain the masses through books and movies that depict the life one would experience during and after a zombie apocalypse. The zombies typically seen in movies come in three categories; zombies raised specifically to serve a master, zombies…

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the sole governing body which is responsible for ensuring our safety and wholesomeness of meat, poultry, and processed egg products and well as ensuring that these products have the correct well –documented labels. The FSIS comprises of the Federal Meat, Poultry Products and the Egg Products Inspection Act, and these acts require that all meat, poultry, and processed egg products prepared for distribution in commerce for human consumption…

The United Nations has projected that by 2050 the world population will reach approximately 9 billion (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2009, para. 2). As population increases, so does the demand for food resources. Since only a small percentage of the world population is vegetarians, animal proteins remain an important source for fulfilling basic nutritional needs. In addition to increasing population growth, Van Huis (2012) states that the recent economic bubble in developing countries in…

Genetically modified crops were first produced in 1982 and commercially introduced in 1996. Plants are no longer victim to pesticide use or climate conditions. Farmers in third world countries are now able to produce more crops with higher nutrition levels. Vaccinations can potentially be made and administered as edible substances. While many consumers graciously accepted them due to their possible benefits, others protested their introduction due to a lack of evidence concerning potential risks…

University of Oklahoma Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Cody Clay HES-1823-003 Professor Joshua Carr 23 November 2015 Cody Clay Professor Joshua Carr HES-1823-003 23 November 2015 Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a rare, degenerative, inevitably fatal brain disorder that eats away at the infected person’s brain and can have many different potential causes (NINDS). There are four types of CJD; Sporadic or Classical CJD, the most common form, which occurs for a still unknown reason,…

slaughter houses are also areas in which diseases can spread easily due to the close proximity animals have with each other in the closed quarters they are kept in (Driscoll and Morley 1). Outbreaks of diseases such as avian influenza and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or “mad cow disease” are not uncommon and are hard to contain because the majority of these diseases are resistant to antibiotics due to the overuse of them for reasons other than to cure (Driscoll…

Due to the small, congested space where the animals live in industrial meat factories, it is easy for various diseases and bacteria to spread, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease, E.Coli, and salmonella. For example, the Angell Animal Medical center website states that chicken sheds called “grower houses” confine up to “20000 chickens at a density of approximately 130 square inches…

of all the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cases. Familial is when it is hereditary, and in the genes. This makes up ten to fifteen percent of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cases. Last is acquired, this is when someone has come in contact with bovine spongiform encephalopathy which is found in cows. This is why it is often called “mad cow disease”. This makes up only one percent of all Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cases (“Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease”). People with this dementia have bad coordination, and…