How Now Mad Cow

To obtain higher milk yields and growth rates, the nutritional value of feed for farmed animals was routinely boosted by the addition of protein derived from waste meat products and bonemeal (MBM) prepared from animal carcasses, including sheep and cows.

This practice was not unique to the UK but was widely followed in most developed countries.
By March 1996, a total of 161,663 cases of BSE had been reported in the UK and 412 cases elsewhere (including Switzerland, Ireland, Portugal, France, Germany, Italy, Oman, Canada, Denmark and the Falklands).

To obtain higher milk yields and growth rates, the nutritional value of feed for farmed animals was routinely boosted by the addition of protein derived from waste meat products and bonemeal (MBM) prepared from animal carcasses, including sheep and cows.

© AJC 1997.