re: media hype, or am I missing something?
I know, R.L.
It's baffling though why anyone would want to feed a cow, a primarily vegetarian animal by nature, this stuff:
How did the cattle become infected?
"Around 1980, several changes occurred in the way the British produced a meat-and-bone-meal protein supplement for cattle," says Don Franco, director of scientific affairs for the U.S. National Renderers Association. The supplement is made from, among other things, slaughterhouse waste, dead pets, and road kill -- diseased animals as well as healthy ones.
From: http://www.cspinet.org/nah/ja-bse.htm
More here: http://people.ku.edu/~jbrown/madcow.html New advice here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3848344/