what beef is.

"I hate victims who respect their executioners." ~Jean-Paul Sartre

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is Mad Cow Disease. It sounds much more impressive when you say anything is spongiform. It's just fun to say spongiform sometimes, try it. Beef from America is being pulled from the shelves in South Korea because it's tainted. The post WWII Asia was replaced by the 21st century Asia at some point in the past generation or so and it's funny (ironic? fitting?) that now in 2012 South Korea is turning away American beef. I kind of always thought beef came from here, out in the wide open pastures of the great mid-west and throughout the hills and dales of the east coast and in the rolling valleys near the pacific are millions and billions of cows all roaming free in their cages to be slaughtered and force fed to gluttonous middle America. Next thing you know, there will be a bunch of Asians running around with the gout. Welcome to the problems of the 1st world. Spongiform. I am also writing about this right now because google says it's a trending topic and people might want to learn. 

Mad cow comes from cow cannibalism, cows eating cows makes cows go mad. Cows are bad for you anyways, I stopped eating beef about 3 or 4 years ago and my doctor tells me about how I have "impressive cholesterol" for a fella my age. That's not really saying anything because I'm in such peak physical shape otherwise. See, I stopped eating cows long ago because of all the corn I heard they eat. Cows eat sick amounts of corn, the exact numbers are lost somewhere in this wikipedia page I didn't feel like reading in its entirety. Think DDT. It's that famous insecticide that everyone knows so much about, Joni Mitchell wrote a song about it and such, everyone's favorite insecticide. The story goes like this: bugs eat the insecticide, birds and critters eat the bugs, bigger critters eat the smaller critters, and eventually the levels of insecticide build up in the animal's system until they die. They paved paradise to put up a parking lot, remember?

I reckon the poisoning of the upper echelon predators in this scenario would be remarkably similar to the poisoning of the uppermost predator in the world, myself, with corn. See, I eat corn in other products; corn, tortillas, soda, anything processed, and also chicken and beef. Somewhere in the sand or dirt, a line needed to be drawn over this corn issue because the cows are fed corn, the chickens are fed corn, and I'm also fed corn so it's bound to negatively build up somewhere (most likely in the world's premier predator) and somehow kill or injure me. We can't have that, South Korea shelved American beef in 2012, I shelved it in early 2008 and haven't looked back much since except in those sweet and special instances where a slab of raw cow finds its way onto my plate. I'll eat beef if it's rare, only because I feel like a carnivorous beast when blood trickles down my chin. Try it some time, spongiform.