US cattle are eating just about anything
The Globe and Mail (2005-06-17):
Washington — U.S. cattle are eating chicken litter, cattle blood and restaurant leftovers that could help transmit mad-cow disease — a gap in the defences that the Bush administration promised to close nearly 18 months ago.
Well, it’s hardly surprising that a second case of BSE is suspected in the USA. The question is really, where are all the other cases? Probably a case of also not having tested properly for BSE since the first cow – sounds just like the UK nearly twenty years ago, doesn’t it? Here is the UK timeline.