[Azimaith]

The big difference between drowning in your bathtub and dying from mad cow disease is this.

When you drown in your bathtub, its not because people took shortcuts to cut costs such as, I dunno, making your faucet out of cardboard causing it to overflow and drown you.

However, with mad cow disease, in order to cut feed costs, they grind up slaughterhouse waste and feed it to cows, which is because they took shortcuts, broke the natural order, and essentially, tried to cut costs by doing something that is known to cause a deadly disease.

And by the way, nerves are what get you mad cow disease, the problem is, all the muscle in the entire body is filled with nerve cells. Its because prions exist in nerve cells and essentially destroy them.

Also note that mad cow disease symptoms don't manifest for 10 years or so after you ingested the prions. It takes a long time for the neural damage to become deadly enough to manifest physically.

No, mad cow disease is not an epidemic, yet lead is banned from paints because it can cause all sorts of problems, asbestos with serpentine is nearly unproduced because of cancer, and all ham is federally mandated to reach a certain temperature before its considered "ready to eat" to kill Trich.

This is just as important as banning the use of slaughterhouse waste so they can just cut down on costs. Its not only hurting people, its hurting the entire beef industry and most people can agree, having cows cannabilize their dead for a couple of bucks is just plain disgusting.