Quote Originally Posted by Yunus Dogus
in fact its so great someone thought of it already, In India, when they used pieces of dead livestock and in some cases partially burnt humans from the river ganges which they ground into feedstock and sold back to the UK - hey presto - MAD COW DISEASE
My understanding is that most studies to date show that BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) originated from the ground up remains of sheep and other animal bone meal that were fed to cattle by European farmers as a cheap fodder additive during the 1980s. Sheep suffer quite widely from a condition known as "scrapy" - a similar neuro-degenerative disease.

The UK suffered disproportionately because the government there lowered the temperature requirements for treating the bone-meal and therefore more of the casusative protein prions were left intact.

BSE is a cautionary tale of cheap-skate UK government policies, not an imported problem from India.