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?
Hi Karen,
ReplyDeleteI 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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