Fri, 01 Oct 2004

BSE-infected cow may have gotten into animal feed

I hate to sound like a broken record (hmmm, I wonder if that phrase has any meaning in this age of CD's?), but sooner or later, somebody in the bureaucracy, somewhere, has got to get wise and simply ban feeding animal byproducts to ruminants.

But given the current power of the agribusiness lobby, I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it to happen. It's gonna take a major outbreak of vCJD in humans before governments start paying serious attention to this, I'm afraid.

The diseased cow that sparked Canada's mad cow crisis in May 2003 was turned into feed and may have been mistakenly fed to other cows, CBC News has learned.

(link) [CBC]

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