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Larry Caldwell
 
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In article >,
(Jim Webster) says...

> Had the United States heeded experts and implemented a British-style ban on
> feeding livestock to livestock, and tightened the ban further in 1996 when
> humans began dying, the mad cow crisis in the United States could have been
> averted.


There is no "mad cow crisis" in the USA. One animal in the USA has been
identified with BSE. It was bred and infected in Alberta Province,
Canada. Despite intensive testing, no other BSE infected bovine has
been identified in the USA.

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