Mad cow disease, propaganda, and the politics of greed.
I’m obsessed with mad cow disease. I became obsessed with it about 15 years ago when I was working on the bovine growth hormone issue and found out that if you inject cows with bovine growth hormone, there’s a good chance you will kill them unless you feed them supplemental fat and supplemental protein, because the hormone is causing them to shed their fat and protein into increased milk production. So guess where that supplemental fat and protein is coming from? It’s coming from slaughterhouse waste. This, in fact, is what has amplified and spread mad cow disease—a fatal, food-borne disease that causes dementia.
