mad help: Beef is OVER. - Help.com

me too!

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0…

http://www.alternet.org/story/17466/

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/12/23/…

http://www.organicconsumers.org/madco…

anothernikki wrote:
I love beef. and a silly scare like this won’t make me stop eating it. The media always makes things out a whole lot worse than what they are.

Not always — look at George Bush!

What Is Mad Cow Disease?

BSE is caused by malformed proteins called prions. Researchers have traced the disease to farmers’ cost-cutting practice of mixing bits of dead sheep’s neural tissue into the feed of cattle, who are naturally herbivorous. If cattle eat the brains of cattle who already have BSE, or of sheep suffering from a sheep disease called scrapie, the cattle can develop mad cow disease. When people eat the infected cattle, they could develop the human version of the disease, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD). Millions of cattle suspected of being infected with BSE in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Belgium, Italy, and other countries have been slaughtered.

Whether it strikes cattle or people, mad cow disease is always fatal. The disease eats holes in the brain. In humans, it initially causes memory loss and erratic behavior, and over a period of months, its victims gradually lose all ability to care for themselves or communicate, and eventually, they die.

(from http://www.peta.org/feat/madcow/?c=p_…)

But … but, why do you think it’s “hype?” Just wondering …