[secretagent]

If sick cows were reliably not entering the human food chain, then there would be no reason to worry because of our new findings."

Sicks cows do reliably enter the food chain, I read. Only massive doses of antibiotics keep them standing.

Even that doesn't help them for long, but they get slaughtered just in time so they can walk to their death.

Or so I've read.

[M. Espinola]

Very well taken point.