I plan to keep right on with my meat consumption. The disease isn't carried in the muscle meat which is what all of your steak, chops, hamburger etc come from.
Dave, it's not uncommon for them to kill weak and barely standing cows, but I do know that if the cow can't walk off the truck at the packing plant then the meat isn't supposed to go for human consumption.
I think this whole thing is being blowed out of proportion just like the Canada deal last winter. The government was pissed at Canada over lumber and that's why they clobbered them with the closure of Canadian beef to this country.