Mad Cow Disease

It is reported recently that a third case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, a/k/a Mad Cow diesease was detected in a cow from Alabama, and the knownothings are once again in a tizzy.

How else to explain the reaction of Consumer's Union? "Food policy experts" are outraged, and the finger's pointed squarely at feed practices.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/03/mad_cow_alabama.html

What the pundits seem not to have noticed is that BSE occurs spontaneously across the population of cattle just as its human variant, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) can occur spontaneously in humans. I shall have more to write about this later.

Meanwhile, Japan-you know, those wonderful folks who ban American beef at the drop of a hamburger-has reported its 23d case of BSE, and nobody seems particularly upset about it, which makes me wonder what the ruckus is all about. I shall have more to write about this later but right now I gotta do some paying work. Stay tuned, and welcome aboard.

http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/15-03-2006/77319-Japan-0