Animal feed contaminated with human remains may have
caused the first cases of Mad Cow Disease. Previously it was
assumed that Mad Cow began when the ground up remains of
other cattle were fed to cows as a source of protein. But
now scientists believe it may have begun when the the
remains of
human corpses were imported into the UK to be added to
cattle feed. In the Indian subcontinent, some religious
groups leave their dead unburied for vultures to consume,and
it is being speculated that bones may have have been
collected from these bodies, ground up and imported to
the UK, where they were added to feed for cattle.
British researchers Alan and Nancy Colchester report in The
Lancet that that human material was imported into the UK
from India that was mixed with animal remains for the
production of animal feed over a long period of time. Some of
the human remains could have been from people who died of
the human form of Mad Cow, Cruzfeld-Jacobs Disease,
which in turn infected the cattle that ate the feed. The
infected corpses could have gotten the disease from eating
sheep infected with scrapie, a disease that is closely related
to Mad Cow.
Art credit: http://www.freeimages.co.uk
Whitley Strieber did a dynamite interview with Colm Kelleher
about Mad Cow disease several months ago.
Subscribers
can still listen to this incredible interview and download
it to an MP3 disc for listening in your car.
For more information, click here.
