Word: cowed
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...with the prevalence of the health risk itself. Only three people in continental Europe are known to have died from the human variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the last decade. Despite the recent rise in the number of bovine cases, the chances of encountering a mad cow on the Continent are tiny: since 1990 the incidence of bse in cows in Europe is fewer than 2,000, compared to 180,000 in Britain. And yet across Europe, beef consumption has plunged 27% in the last three months; in Germany it has been cut in half. This is an epidemic...
...Massachusetts scientists injected a human nucleus into a cow egg. The resulting embryo, destroyed early, appeared to be producing human protein, but we have no idea what kind of grotesque hybrid entity would come out of such a marriage. Last October, the first primate containing genes from another species--a monkey with a jellyfish gene--was born. Monkeys today. Tomorrow humans...
...with the prevalence of the health risk itself. Only three people in continental Europe are known to have died from the human variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the last decade. Despite the recent rise in the number of bovine cases, the chances of encountering a mad cow on the Continent are tiny: since 1990 the incidence of bse in cows in Europe is fewer than 2,000, compared to 180,000 in Britain. And yet across Europe, beef consumption has plunged 27% in the last three months; in Germany it has been cut in half. This is an epidemic...
...story-within-a-story, and the truly entertaining moment of the episode, was the drama around the gross-out food wheel. Kimmi, a vegetarian who will eat fish but has a moral objection to "land-dwelling animals," including cow brain, should have been canned for costing her team the win. But Tina choked - literally - on her tripe, and Kimmi came back impressively by scarfing down a foot-long mangrove worm, which apparently didn't bother her morally. (I guess the Vegetarian Code doesn't cover anything nobody in the West ever thought to eat before, even if it is land...
...result, not one cow in America has so far been found to have BSE--and the U.S. Department of Agriculture has an aggressive plan to find, quarantine and destroy any if they appear. "Even if you do eat beef from an infected cow," says Michael Scott, a molecular biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who has studied the disease in cattle and humans, "you have a very low risk of contracting VCJD...