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Re: Mad Cow disease, BSE; Justice is served.
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Subject: Re: Mad Cow disease, BSE; Justice is served.
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From: Oz <Oz@upthorpe.demon.co.uk>
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Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 07:41:52 +0100
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Article: 12240 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Distribution: world
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Newsgroups: sci.environment, uk.environment, alt.sustainable.agriculture, sci.agriculture, scot.environment, misc.consumers, alt.politics.greens, alt.org.earth-first, alt.save.the.earth
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Organization: Oz
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In article <4m2u0d$m1f@news.informix.com>, Paul Roberts
<proberts@lynx.informix.com> writes
>Paul Clarke <paul@denby.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> [...] The latest theory
>>(supported by experimental evidence - see The Observer 21/4/96) is that
>>the disease is harboured and spread by hay mites - so that whatever you
>>do as regards killing off infected or suspect animals, the hay mites
>>will spread the disease to any replacement stock!! Rather a worrying
>>scenario - what do we do if it's true!?
>
>Go vegetarian, perhaps? A pretty good idea in any case. I see from the
>paper that the number of BSE/CJD cases in Britain is now up to 14.
Expect about 50 +-25 cases annually of CJD in the UK or around 1 per
million per annum worldwide (ie about 250 cases in US annually).
Vegetarians get CJD as often as you would expect given their numbers
with respect to the general population.
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'Oz "When I knew little, all was certain. The more I learnt,
the less sure I was. Is this the uncertainty principle?"
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