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Re: Mad Cow disease, BSE; Justice is served.



In article <4m2u0d$m1f@news.informix.com>, proberts@lynx.informix.com (Paul Roberts) wrote:

|> 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.

Nah. Pretty bad idea - not enough arable land here. Switch to chicken, much
healthier anyway

|> I see from the 
|> paper that the number of BSE/CJD cases in Britain is now up to 14.

Really? I didn't know they'd actually identified the BSE/CJD link. 14? Real
epidemic.

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