Cattle

Mad Cow BSE Mad Cow disease is otherwise known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Bovine means that the disease affects mainly cows and cattle. Spongiform refers to the spongy look of an infected cows brain, prion causes holes and tissues to fold. Encephalopathy is any form of disease to the brain. BSE is found in more in younger cattle and cows. Other forms of BSE are found in humans, cats (feline spongiform encephalopathy), sheeps and goats (scrapies), and deer and elk (chronic…

PSS is not the only example of when artificial selection has gone wrong. There are many positives to artificial selection people just need to become educated and make sure they are not breeding for genes that can have adverse reactions, other than what was originally expected. This does raise the question of the ethics of artificial selection in relation to the quality of life the pigs will have living with the stress gene. Humans have been doing artificial selection for a long time with many…

The Good Times As D.H. Lawrence listens to a woman singing and playing piano, he experiences a moment of involuntary memory that is connected to his mother. In his poem “Piano”, Lawrence begins by stating, “softly in the dusk, a woman is singing to me” (1). By using descriptive text throughout the poem, Lawrence illustrates the memory of, “hymns in the cozy parlor, the tinkling piano our guide” (8). Lawrence explains that the singer is “taking me back down the vista of years” which makes it…

There are currently seven billion people on Earth, with an annual growth of 75 million people yearly. The average age of cattle producers is approaching 60 years old, and consist of less than one percent of the U.S. population. Cattle producers in the U.S. are a key part of feeding the world, even though the amount of total cattle is fourth in the world, the U.S. market is the most consistent and regulated. To keep up with the growing population on less and less land each year, new management…

Eliminating Mycobacterium Bovis in California Mycobacterium Bovis is a strain of tuberculosis that affects mainly cattle, humans, and wildlife. In 1917, the United States Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication Program was established in order to eliminate M. Bovis from the United States. This has been implemented by a state to state basis. Today, all states aside from Michigan and California are considered “M. Bovis free”. Mycobacterium Bovis is a concern as the signs are difficult to identify until…

BSE Veterinary Management Decision Making Process A recent increase in cattle infections has caused BSE Veterinary to run more laboratory tests. Management has decided that using the rational decision making model aids in finding the purposeful result. They will come together in a focus group, so many different alternatives can be discussed. The Rational Model The rational model consists of five phases (Pre-analysis, Analytic, design, choice, and implementation). These phases are critical for…

future of agriculture ," these seven powerful words provide an amazing introduction to the FFA Creed . This phrase serves not only as an introduction to the FFA Creed, but also as a basis for my reasoning behind my plan for my part in the future of the cattle industry. As far as knowledge and understanding of the beef industry, I am trying to gain as much experience as I can through opportunities found in organizations and programs ,such as 4-H, FFA, Tennessee Junior Simmental Association,…

about 80 percent of all US cattle are injected with hormones to make them grow faster, and approximately 17 percent of all cows in the US were given the genetically engineered growth hormone rBGH to increase milk production. According to the European Union’s Scientific Committee…

are chopping up chunks of cattle, standing in pools of pool that were deep. Workers were killing cattle by hitting them and slicing them up. Even though there are machines to process meat, with cattle there are different sizes that come along with it. Unlike other animals, cattle would have to be slice in a particular way and with knives. In this case workers must work in a quick way to slice up cattle to almost keep with how their machines would. Some plants kill 400 cattle an hour. The work…

specific strain known as STEC, or Shiga toxin-producing E. coli. STEC lives in the guts of animals, such as cattle, goats, sheep, deer, and elk (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). When this strain of E. coli enters the intestine of human, symptoms such as diarrhea occur (Hedge, 2016). STEC has not always been an issue. The feeding of grain-based feed to dairy and beef cattle, in an attempt to fatten them up quicker at a lower cost, has caused this strain to develop (Cummins,…