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If
you ate a manky British burger between 1985 and 1989, you have a
chance of dying from human version of Mad Cow's Disease. Hurrah!
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Well,
the BSE inquiry is complete and I, for one, feel a great weight has
been lifted from my mind.
There I was, mildly concerned that my diet of cheeseburgers
might land me with deadly variant CJD and a "painful, maddening death"
But I needn't worry. After two years and £27 million pounds, the inquiry
has found that…no one was to blame. Hurrah!
Well done you FUCKS!
A few sobering facts:
1985 to 1989 was the peak BSE exposure period.
If you ate a manky British burger or a low-grade steak in that
time, you have a chance of contracting CJD.
Oops - nobody got round to removing animal protein (prime BSE infection
sites) from the food chain until 1995.
Double oops - scientists currently know nothing - repeat no-thing
- about CJD's maturation period, nor the rate of infection.
They currently guess the disease could take between 8 and 30 years
to incubate.
Best case scenario: 6000 people die a drawn out, maddening
and humiliating death.
Worst case scenario: "over 100,000 die" in the next ten years
I'd like to know just one thing. In all the post mortems of the reports,
nobody seems to ask it.
Who decided that it would be a good idea to feed cattle - herbivore
cows that we eat - the ground-down and mechanically recovered remains
of other cows?
Listen to it. It's pure sci-fi.
Cow A is slaughtered. Meat good enough for humans stripped off, made
into burgers. Bad meat (spinal cord, offal etc) mulched up and fed
to cow B. Cow B slaughtered. Meat from cow B fed to man.
Bad meat still goes into human.
Whu-?
What was the thinking?
Oh yeah, I know. Two words.
Cheap and easy.
Welcome to the UK.
Soph
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