Don’t Panic...
when listening to this morning’s news. Something akin to ‘Mad Cow Disease’ shows up as a spontaneous mutation in every so many hundred thousand cattle. The scary part is really the modern meat processing industry which tends to mix products together. And that pragmatic practice of grinding up downer cattle and by-products to be fed back to cattle as feed. Turning cattle into cannibals. You may want to read Deadly Feasts by Richard Rhodes for more info. Especially to find out why cannibalism is bad (as if we needed a warning) and why to avoid eating brains. (Didja know that Wisconsin, with all it’s headcheese loving Germans has a higher that average incidence of Kreuzfeldt-Jakob disease? K-J is a spongiform encephalopathy that causes the same devastation as Mad Cow.

Deadly Feasts is a fascinating read. Though maybe not while eating lunch