I was just thinking today how overblown all this is....
after-all, we have definite scientific evidence that smoking will eventually make you very sick, if not kill you outright, yet we sell cigarettes everywhere....
not that I want any spongiforms in my beef, and we have done a poor job at detecting this disease ( we have done 20,000 random samples and western Europe has done 10 million?).
It's like the dreaded West Nile Virus. A disease with flu-like symptoms that a few dozen people contracted and a handful died from. Every night on the news they showed maps with red sploches showing every case in the country. Meanwhile the flu kills 30,000 Americans every year, and we mostly just treat it as routine. There's a bad flu going around. Hope I don't catch it, can't afford to miss work. That's it.