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The outbreak of BSE in Britain ("mad cow disease" derived from the sheep disease Scrapie) and 48 human deaths in Britain through CJD (Creutz-feldt-Jakob disease - the human form of BSE) has brought a long standing fact of animal husbandry to public notice.
Animals have been changed from natural herbivores to carnivores by being fed parts of other animals. Dried blood, crushed bone, and meat meal, or feed that includes ground up intestines, spinal cords, brains, and other internal organs such as the pancreas, trachea, and kidneys are routinely used in an effort to conserve resources, increase profitability and accelerate animal growth.
By the age of six months the average calf has been fed about 26 pounds of food made from the remnants of other animals says Dr Harash Narang, one of the experts who first raised as alarm about the disease. "I was astonished," he said, referring to his visit to a slaughterhouse. "We were actually recycling cattle to cattle, to me that's cannibalism".
Lord Justice Phillips, leading the Official BSE Enquiry reported that the 48 people whom have died in Britain from eating bovine meat products due to CJD could be "just the tip of the iceberg" and "the full extent of the disaster may not become clear for years". At the beginning of the Enquiry 24 people had died in Britain from CJD and at the conclusion in December 1999 deaths had doubled to 48. The 18 volume final report and evidence was presented to Government Ministers in March 2000.
Further understandable alarm and anxiety arose with the revelation that France, Belgium, Holland and who knows how many other Countries, have, for many years, been routinely feeding their livestock with human faeces - excrement, sewage, industrial waste water and effluent bulking out cheap animal feed. Experts are in disagreement whether such obviously harmful organisms are destroyed in the manufacturing process.
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