Mad Cow Disease: The Great British Beef Scandal

As I watched this TV movie, bells were ringing in my head - loudly. I remembered a TV series where one episode told the story of a deadly disease caused by the feed given to cattle. I remembered that the feed contained parts of sheep and the world "scapie" being significant - a word I had never heard before that time, or since!

All I recalled was the main actor in the series, Robert Powell and looking him up brought to light the name of the series. This was "Doomwatch" and the episodes dealt with various threats to the British population - environmental and man-made.

If one presumes that the episode I saw proposing a future "mad-cow disease" - totally unheard and unimagineable in 1972 - someone had an idea that this could be possible perhaps. Or were there in truth actual cases in tiny numbers before 1972?

We will never know of course. Government would have any such information and they are not about to let the cat out of the bag!

I'm glad that this documentary is here to remind us of the devastation caused by the greed that turned cattle into cannibals. What the hell did they think would happen by forcing them to eat so unnaturally? They just didn't think!

I was born in '81 and have been a vegetarian since '93, yet I could be still carrying the disease without even knowing. No one knows how many could be infected. It'll probably take someone famous showing symptoms before they even truly put the money in to try and find a cure.

I now live abroad and am unable to donate blood because of this disease. The world remembers, even when the politicians try to forget.

The worse thing about it was after ban the burgers looked and tasted different at famous burger chain. They fed people dog food mixed with minced meat and spinnal fluid and bone. They fed school children this without parrents knollege and we now can't donate blood abroad. This was not the only scandel, they also had samonellia scare 1988. Theirs no test for it that we know off just yet but people are dying from other conditions and they can't check to see if they have it it's their poor diet or smoking.