Mad cow in Washington?

From: "Simon Robbins"
Date: 12/26/2003 10:53 AM Central Standard Time
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"Emmanuel.Gustin" wrote in message
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What makes it worse is that this is a totally preventable
event. BSE is almost a man-made disease; if people had not
been so stupid to feed cows with insufficiently treated
proteins from other animals (IIRC this decision was taken
in the 1980s, when the UK and perhaps some other countries
lowered the legal standard for heat treatment of carcases)

If I recall corrcetly, BSE is imune to heat treatmet. The only solution,
which is common sense if you think about it, is that you shouldn't force
your herbivorous cattle to consume their own species as part of their feed.

Si


The odd thing is that was known years before just from observing cannibals in
humans and primates. They may not have known exactly how the desease was
transmitted, but they knew it existed.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired