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Friday, May 23, 2003
Mad cow: the prequel. Not to
claim prescience or anything like that, but in December 2001 I wrote
this
piece on mad-cow disease --
and suggested that it was one of the more important undercovered
stories on the horizon.
Now
mad cow is back. And here's
one point the media seem to be missing as they focus on how that
animal in Canada ever could have become infected: bovine spongiform
encephalopathy, or BSE, as the disease is known scientifically, is a
rare but naturally occurring disease.
What causes it to spread is the
abhorrent practice of feeding dead cattle to live ones. Cattle are
ruminants who do not normally eat meat. The media -- not to mention
Canadian officials -- should focus on the feed.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
