WTF?! Um, this is beyond repugnant. For those of you unfamiliar with this subject, please check
this out.
According to the medical journal, The Lancet, as provided by the
Red Herring :
"We propose a new theory that human TSE-contaminated material was the cause of BSE [bovine spongiform encephalopathy]."
What?! This is starting to turn my tummy...
Alan and Nancy Colchester from the University of Kent, and the University of Edinburgh, respectively, propose that the remains of humans who died from neurodegenerative diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) were imported into the U.K. in the 1960s and 1970s, mixed with the carcasses of other mammals.
The U.K. imported hundreds of thousands of tons of bone and soft tissue, of which nearly 50 percent came from Bangladesh, India, or Pakistan, to be used as fertilizer or to manufacture animal feed. The industry was largely unregulated, according to the researchers, and material intended for fertilizers often ended up as food for cows.
I am stunned and have nothing more to add. Sorry. Just another example of "cost cutting!" Well, maybe not "just", but...wow.