Am I the only here who’s heard of mad cow disease?
“Am I the only here who’s heard of mad cow disease?”
No you’re not. But some of us have been in agriculture and know that the beef protein supplements were banned many years ago. Which is why we haven’t had any mad cow disease.
Or not much anyway.
They may be used in other countries but I doubt it.
Nope.
IIRC it is Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, caused by a prion and believed passed on to a few humans via beef from infected cattle (among other causes including (and not limited to) usage of HGH drawn from the pituitary glands of cadavers who died from Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease, and infected surgical instruments). Very nasty - I’ve seen it.
‘In theory’, in the US, downer cattle (believed possibly) are no longer fed to cattle in the US., HGH from cadavers is no longer used, and blood donor restrictions have been instituted to prevent transmission to humans.