Who ate Whom? Did feeding human remains start mad-cow?

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Rosalinda:
The Lancet has published an article speculating that the origin of the disease known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad-cow disease may have originated from the feeding of human remains imported from India to cattle. Whoever said life was stranger then fiction? Read more of this Globe and Mail story at:
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No actually it comes from the processing of cow feed. There have been practices of using byproducts of slaughter of cows including brains in the feed.

What’s interesting is that affliction in cows a similar to document cases where explores found the same symptoms in cannibal tribes.

The United State has prohibited the use of cow brains in cow feed since (I think around) World War II. Canada has allowed it this type of feed until just recently. Note the US cases were from cows that were purchased from Canada.

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I just read the article. It’s from a Canadian researcher :hmmm: trying to save face.

Also, I have nothing against Canadians; my mom is from New Brunswick.

Peace

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On my grandparents’ farm, 60 years ago, we always carefully removed all pork from the garbage before feeding it to the pigs. The thought of canibalism in animals was abhorant.

Some customs had a good, solid, practical purpose too.
 
I just read the article. It’s from a Canadian researcher :hmmm: trying to save face.
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Beebs, I don’t pretend to know the motives for the Globe and Mail publishing this article but the researchers who wrote the report for the British medical magazine are from the UK. At least that is my assumption as I didn’t care to register at the Lancet website to investigate their background further. The commentary however was from Canadians.

As for my motives, I have been following the story since the outbreak in Britain and this is the first time I hear such a suggestion. Such a gruesome hypothesis though does seem to be within the realm of the possible however far-fetched. Maybe some health-care practitioners have some thoughts to share on the plausibility factor?

(I’m scratching my head with this one but there is no such smiley icon.)
 
Joe Kelley:
On my grandparents’ farm, 60 years ago, we always carefully removed all pork from the garbage before feeding it to the pigs. The thought of canibalism in animals was abhorant.

Some customs had a good, solid, practical purpose too.
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What’s especially interesting is that, according to what I was told by my grandparents, eating the meat from pigs that had eaten pork was said to make you extremely ill, & could even be deadly…There wasn’t any name for it; I have wondered since the first appearance of mad cow, whether this was based on some kind of folk knowledge, or observance of people getting sick…

I suspect that there was indeed a practical purpose. Unfortunately, we live in a world that thinks that everything our grandparents knew is hooey…“old wives’ tales”…
 
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Zooey:
What’s especially interesting is that, according to what I was told by my grandparents, eating the meat from pigs that had eaten pork was said to make you extremely ill, & could even be deadly…There wasn’t any name for it; I have wondered since the first appearance of mad cow, whether this was based on some kind of folk knowledge, or observance of people getting sick…
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Wow, interesting. It’s my understanding that the practice, where common, helps farmers save $ on feed? If that’s the case, it would make sense. Profit before common sense?
 
Found the story on another site today which answers more questions than provided in the G&M yesterday.

news.tradingcharts.com/futures/6/1/69924816.html?mpop

It confirms the authors are not Canadian. It also appears the only way to prove or disprove this theory that corpses retrieved from the Ganges in India and exported as bone meal for cow feed would be to perform a despicable act on a human body which the public would clearly find offensive. For the sake of sensitive readers, I will not explain just what that experiment would be.
 
Would the calves of a cow infected by human remains, be born with original sin?
 
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AlanFromWichita:
Would the calves of a cow infected by human remains, be born with original sin?
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No. Since cows do not have a human soul, they cannot be born with original sin.

PF
 
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Jennifer123:
Wow, interesting. It’s my understanding that the practice, where common, helps farmers save $ on feed? If that’s the case, it would make sense. Profit before common sense?
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I’m thinking lost knowledge…I was pretty much raised by my grandmother…(My mother had to work to support us…long story), and I grew up on a lot of her ideas/rules. As a kid, I thought they were, you know, “weird” & “old fashioned”, but the more I hear on the news, the more times I find myself saying, “that’s just like what she told me”…
So I think maybe this was one of those things that, you know,people assumed it was a myth, but there was a lot of truth in it…Maybe we need to try to remember all these old practices. They may have a scientific basis!
 
Lucky you - sounds like you received quite a gift. I often long to recover knowledge of our forebears, primarily about Catholic custom which is hard to find especially as a convert.
 
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