Beef Scares Europe The strange disease, called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as BSE, had its origin in 1985, when the first official case of mad-cow disease was detected in Britain. In 1988 Britain ordered the slaughter of all cattle infected with BSE but the British manufacturers continued to export banned animal feed to the Continent. In 1990 a cat with symptoms of BSE was discovered. The British Government was frightened and started to watch for human cases. …showed first 75 words of 567 total…

…showed last 75 words of 567 total…more important. At the moment the medicines are making a lot of “fast-tests” and until now they have found not one case of mad-cow disease in Austria. Perhaps the latest wave of mad-cow fears is “nature’s wake-up call”. BSE has been developing in an overly intensive agriculture and it should show the whole population that we have to pay attention to nature and that we are only guests on earth and not its rulers.