Before donating blood today, I was asked this question among the other six thousand they normally ask: "have you spent more than five years living in Europe?"What difference would that make in the fitness of my blood," I asked.
"Mad cow disease. They don't want it entering the U.S. blood supply."
What? If I eat a hamburger in EU, do I have to worry about such things? Do y'all worry about getting Mad Cow Disease via your beef consumption over there? I thought we, the Americans, were supposed to have beef Europeans objected to, not the other way around.
What's up with that?
2 comments:
Hi Karen,
I was shocked they wouldn't let you give blood if you had been in the EU!!! That's something new! I only eat McDonald's hamburgers over there...don't know if they are any safer, but I'm very careful about ground meat there (in Czech Rep). I only eat the ground meat that my mother-in-law makes!
Sherry :0)
Surely, the EU countries have something similar to our U.S.D.A inspections, right? It's enough to make me a vegetarian once I get there!
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