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...misdirected. Supranational bodies like the E.U. have proved far more reliable guardians of the public interest than national governments when it comes to dealing with health threats such as bse. As far back as 1994, the E.U. banned the feeding of meat and bone meal to all animals, including sheep and chicken. But 12 member states refused to go along, for fear of antagonizing farmers who would have to bear the cost; the resulting cross-contamination of cattle feed is the likely cause of the latest bse outbreak. The lack of uniformly observed rules still hampers damage control. Last week...
...first bit of luck came in the 1950s, when the U.S. banned imports of British goats and sheep. Reason: a flock of British sheep had a degenerative brain disease called scrapie. Scrapie is harmless to humans, it turns out, and generally harmless to cattle as well, even when infected sheep tissues are injected directly into a cow's brain. But scientists believe some sheep carcasses, ground up to add to British cattle feed, carried an unusual form of the disease that did manage to infect cows. That variant, renamed BSE, began to show up in British herds in the 1980s...
...imported fewer than 500 cows from the British Isles in the 1980s, of which just 32 entered the food chain. By the end of the decade, the U.S. had prohibited the import of live cows and sheep from Britain, along with many animal products and rendered animal proteins...
...first arise from a sheep disease gone spontaneously wild, something similar could happen here--and not just with sheep. U.S. officials have found that elk in Western states suffer from a prion disorder called chronic wasting disease that causes severe weight loss and listlessness. When contaminated tissue was injected into the brains of cows, they too developed the disease (although cows that merely ate elk meat did not). Last week advisers to the FDA took up the question of whether deer, closely related to elk, might pose a danger to venison eaters. "We have to be vigilant," says Linda Detwiler...
...reading has its consolations. "Profiles" is a treasurehouse of old American invective. A veteran senator, instructing an incoming freshman, catalogues his colleagues as they walk down the Senate aisle: "The jackal; the vulture; the sheep-killing dog; the gorilla; the crocodile...