Human remains in cattle feed may have caused mad cow epidemic

[norml]

Human remains in cattle feed may have caused mad cow epidemic
By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent
(Filed: 02/09/2005)

The mad cow disease epidemic could have been caused by the feeding of material containing human remains to cattle, a scientist claimed yesterday.

Alan Colchester, a professor of neurology at the University of Kent, said the most likely origin of BSE and the subsequent deaths from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was the import from the Indian subcontinent of bone meal containing infected human remains.


The original cause of the 1986 BSE crisis has remained unknown
Since the first case of BSE was reported in Britain in 1986, the original cause has remained unknown.

The most widely favoured candidate has been the transmission of sheep scrapie, a fatal degenerative disease that affects the nerve system, to cattle through feed.


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[tjwmason]

1. WOW Shocking news

If you feed crap to animals which they're not supposed to eat - then shit happens.

If you look across the standard human diet, we eat plants and we eat herbivorous animals - the step to eating carnivores is plagued with potential for bad things like this, these cows were carnivores and there is the problem.

[norml]

3. Memorable Quotes from Island of Lost Souls (1933)

Memorable Quotes from
Island of Lost Souls (1933)

Dr. Moreau: What is the law?
Sayer of the Law: Not to eat meat, that is the law. Are we not men?
Beasts (in unison): Are we not men?
Dr. Moreau: What is the law?
Sayer of the Law: Not to go on all fours, that is the law. Are we not men?
Beasts (in unison): Are we not men?
Dr. Moreau: What is the law?
Sayer of the Law: Not to spill blood, that is the law. Are we not men?
Beasts (in unison): Are we not men?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. X-Files episode from season 2: "Our Town."

Go watch it. It's from 1995.

[Deja Q]

4. So it's not feeding bits of ground up cow to other cows then?

Shucks.

[norml]

5. It spreads that way too. It's just that this shows the possibility of the

cow form of the disease having come from the human form of the disease which we can get from eating a cow with the cow form of the disease.

Is that simple enough for you?