[ex-Texan]

I hate to say this (wink! ;) . . . But this is Baaa Baaa Bad!

Just kidding . . . Oops!

[Red Badger]

OSAMA MUST BE HORRIFIED!......

[theDentist]

I hear that Koffi Anan discovered it during an intimate act and because something felt "different".

[montag813]

I trade forex and the Euro dropped like a rock when this news hit

[DustyMoment]

So many responses - so little bandwidth!!!

[Tuba Guy]

Yikes !!

[Nataku X]

the first animal in the world other than a cow to have bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Don't humans get that too, which is the whole reason why we fear eating cows with Mad Cow Disease? That'd count as another species.

[lilylangtree]

French goat! Hmn!

[dhuffman@awod.com]

More seriously; I doubt anyone with any inkling about BSE/prions is surprised. Kind'a like HTLVIII, I wonder what the end of this hyperbola will look like.

[America's Resolve]

I'm waiting for the first reports of FSE ... Frog spongiform encephalopathy.

[vetvetdoug]

When BSE first broke out in the cattle in Britain, the Brit Agriculture Committee allowed the cattle to be rendered and sold as ANIMAL FOOD to European Countries. Blood meal, pig feed, dog and cat food, chicken food, were just a few of the areas where the BSE positive animals were sent. The prion crossed into these animals and never showed symptoms because many were killed before the disease manifested itself. Unfortunately, even though the animals did not exhibit BSE, they could transmit the prions. The Germans, French, Dutch and Italians ain't seen nothing yet because there is with BSE a long lag time between infection and symptoms. I won't ever eat another Dutch ham.

[Coleus]

Via Drudge?????????????????

See what happens when one resorts to cannibalism, your animals come down with very serious diseases. The etiology of this Mad Cow Disease all started by farmers feeding cows (ruminants, herbivores) their very own body parts or parts from other animals in the form of feed and bone meal supplements for calcium.

http://nov55.com/spr.html

To date, the only cow in the United States that has been found to be infected with the disease was the one diagnosed in December 2003, according to the FDA's Web site.

"You have animal residues and (the cattleman) cook it and turn it into pet food," Wei said.

Wei's research now focuses on being able to determine the differences between dead cows and dead chickens in animal feed.

"The main cause of mad cow disease transmission is meat and bone meal," Kim said. "We are trying to develop a system where we can develop meat and bone meal in animal feed."

http://www.mycattle.com/health/dsp_health_article.cfm?storyid=13147

http://www.cuim.edu/Class%20Materials/ Block,%20Jerry/trilogy%20of%20info.pdf

Humans are now doing the same where in states like NJ, human cloning is now legal. What damage will they cause when harvesting babies for body parts.