Originally posted by Lizard3
If they stopped feeding cows and sheep to cows this crap would stop.
In the 1990's Canada and the US banned the practice of feeding rendered products from ruminants (such as cattle) back to other ruminants. I suspect they are investigating this case to make sure this didn't happen.
Did the Gov. in England compensate the cattle raisers when the herds were wiped out?
They were paid market price. But many were still devastated because their entire herd was wiped out and they could no longer operate their farm -- many of which had been handed down through generations.
BSE is called JCB in France. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case in several other places.
A JCB is a type of backhoe. The nickname "JCB disease" comes from the accusation that French farmers would kill and quickly bury any animal suspected of having BSE in order to hide the evidence so that their entire herd would not be eradicated.
Canada and the US have a very active surveillance program for BSE and there is no evidence that this practice occurs in these countries.
