… Reality may be stranger than fiction.
So, you are telling me that if A: beef eats humans; B: We eat beef; therefore, as simple set math show: C. Human eats human… Nice… I think I’m turning vegetarian…
Theory links mad cow disease to funeral rites. 02/09/2005. ABC News Online
Theory links mad cow disease to funeral rites
Dead bodies washed ashore in India may have contaminated animal feed that was exported to the United Kingdom, triggering mad cow disease, scientists say.
The human remains would have floated downriver as part of Indian funeral ceremonies, the scientists write in The Lancet journal.
The cause of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), which infected an estimated 2 million cattle during an epidemic, in the UK is unknown.
It is thought to have resulted from cattle being fed material containing remains of sheep infected with the disease scrapie.
But Professor Alan Colchester of the University of Kent says it may have been caused by the tonnes of animal bones and other tissue imported from India for animal feed.
He says the feed would have also contained the remains of humans infected with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).