Mad cow disease originated from sheep?!

Flock of sheep

Cow

                                                                     Sheep cow? Cow sheep?

Ok we all know mad cow disease is a fatal brain disease in cattle that is also known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (BSE).

It is caused by harmful proteins called prions, and the symptoms are similar to Altzheimers, because the brain basically turns into a useless sponge!

However do you know mad cow disease was a brain disease in sheep caled scrapie?

It was eventually transferred to cows by some cheapass farmers who saved a few bucks by mixing sheep brains in the cattle feed, knowing well that cattle are herbivores.

Humans who eat Mad Cow beef develop a similar brain-wasting disease called Creutzfeld-Jakob disease.

As for mad cow disease in the U.S., the cow that was tested positive for the disease was still sent to the slaughterhouse and its meat shipped out two weeks.

And every step now taken to prevent the disease from spreading to humans may be too late because there may have already been hundreds or thousands of Mad Cows that have been slaughtered, chopped up, purchased by consumers, eaten, digested, and metabolized!

It is only a matter of time before some of us start to drop dead from Mad Cow disease.

Beatrice