Here's a question for you Tim, I'm sure you've read about BSE, scrapie, kuru, Creutzfeld-Jakob et al. Generally they seem to be species-specific but there is some crossover. Let's assume that feeding ground up livestock to livestock is a risky behavior. It goes on here in the U.S. How, in an unregulated system, do you get people to follow immediately practices that are in the best interest of the community when those practices are, in the short term, likely to be rejected as profit killers? We've seen how disclosure works - c.f. Monsanto, BST, the press, and various state labeling laws. We want to avoid government regulation and invasions of privacy but we want the health interests of the community to be served today rather than twenty years from now. How come I have the feeling that the beef industry will chant about lack of proof like the tobacco industry did. Not that I think the recent tobacco lawsuits make a great deal of sense. Let's not get into that one just now. The problem is that when there is doubt we err on the side of profit rather than caution and responsibility is generally avoided by those who should bear it. Mike PS, probably if those ground up beastie parts are fed to animals that are not so closely related the risk would be less. Aquaculture is my favorite.
