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mad cow disease
The problems with this whole scenario again demonstrate that PREVENTION is
the prudent way to do deal with so many of the problems of agriculture. If
we could wind the clock back to 1980 or a time before all this happened in
England and we were to ask the English what they would do if they knew all
they know now--I think the response would be- we would not feed rendered
animals to animals. <Sorry for my convoluted sentence structure but my staff
did not help on this.>
In some way isn't that the situation we have in the US now. There is no
economic, moral or biological reason not to use prevention. The short term
benefit is so small and the long term risk if you are wrong is so great that
steps out to be taken by the industry and the govt. to put a stop to this
practice of feeding rendered animals to livestock. It does not take a great
scientific mind to figure this out but it does takes a measure of common
sense and some way to get some action going on this.
So folks out there where do we go from here to get PREVENTION in the US to
be the mode of action? If we do not the risks may come home to roost.
Bill Liebhardt