To: BOB LOTSPEICH
Subject: Selling crops.
BL>"Mad cow" disease was caused by feeding cattle things not in its
BL>natural diet, including cow by-products. Cattle are not meat eaters,
BL>nor cannibals.  Their biological reaction to the unnatural feed
BL>ingredients caused the disease.
   It's a little more serious than that, Bob. Mad cow disease got its
   start in Britain by feeding scrapie-diseased sheep brains (as offal)
   as part of the tankage that went into cattle mixtures. Scrapie is now
   known to be a prion disease, and the prions survive cooking,
   freezing, and rotting. People who get prion diseases develop fatal
   brain disorders.
   Mink have gotten prion disease from infected sheep offal, and when
   mink carcasses are added to cow feed, the cows have gotten mad cow
   disease. So the prion jumps species, and is almost indestructible.
   One young vegetarian who worked in a restaurant in Britain developed
   the disease; so now researchers are focusing on airborne transmission
   (which can happen also if contaminated corpses are burned, as opposed
   to being incinerated).
  But, you are absolutely correct that this unnatural disease was caused
  by the unnatural process of adding meat to vegetarian animals' diets.
                              ...Sandra...
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