Reminds me of how animal feed suppliers take expired human food, grind it up into a pulp with the plastic packaging not removed, then sell the mush to factory farms, and we get to wonder why meats contain so many microplastics
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
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Years ago they fed them with ground animal carcasses. For the minerals. Back then at the Crazy Cow (BSE) disaster. The days I became vegetarian.
They fed ground up chickens to cows, then fed ground up cows to chickens, who went back to the cows = prions. Run the cycle on repeat until there's enough prions in the cows to burn holes in their brains, until the solid muscle matter is literally like a kitchen sponge = mad cow disease.
Prions are a super spicy protein from cannibalism. Unfortunately, any animal can make them, and prions are hard as fuck to kill, surviving a week exposed to the elements on a surface and will transfer species.
We call Mad Cow, Kuru in humans.
Cannibalism is baaaaad
God i remember that. People went: what can we doooo? We just have to eat meat, but carefully.
I was too young to just realise you can just not eat it.
I ate it and I'm still kicking
"In the UK and EU, feeding cows proteins from other animals has been tightly regulated since the outbreak of BSE – or ‘mad cow disease’ – 30 years ago."
- years. ago.
We also made cows cannibals and we got mad cows disease. I truly recommend this podcast about mad cow disease:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001rrhy
The Covid-19 pandemic has been one of the weirdest things any of us has lived through. But there was another sickness that once stalked the nation and turned things very strange for a while. In the 1990s Britain was hit by an epidemic of a fatal neurological disease in cows that also killed 178 humans. Science was split between government assurances of safety and dissidents warning of disaster. Trust in officials took a battering. Facts became blurred. And the grisly truth about our global industrialised meat industry was revealed. 30 years on, scientists and activists are still searching for answers to two big questions - where did mad cow disease originally come from and how did humans get infected? This crazy tale of cannibal cows, competing origin theories, and scientific dead ends lives on as the madness continues to spread.