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UK Cattle Still Being Fed
Cannibal Diet! - New BSE
Case Confirmed
By Michael Lea - Political Correspondent
http://www.the-sun.co.uk/news/13030089
9-25-00
Many British cows are still on cannibal diets despite
the BSE crisis, it was revealed yesterday.
They are eating 22,000 tons of cattle blood, fat and
gelatin every year.
Meat and bone remains were banned from cattle
feed in 1996 after being linked to BSE, or mad cow
disease. But other waste including blood escaped
the sanctions.
Now scientists are alarmed by the discovery of a
BSE case in Devon in a cow born AFTER the 1996
ban. Tests are being carried out on another seven
carcasses of animals under four years old that
showed signs of BSE.
The Government yesterday played down fears of a
new crisis.
But Professor John Collinge - who has advised
Prime Minister Tony Blair on the disease - warned:
"All cannibalistic recycling is potentially dangerous. I
have said that repeatedly.
"After our experiences with BSE, we should be
taking a much more cautious approach."
Earlier this year, agriculture minister Baroness
Hayman said in a statement: "Gelatin and blood
products are exempt from the feed ban in both EC
and UK legislation.
"Such materials are not widely used in animal feed
in the UK."
But the new figures reveal much wider use of cow
parts.
Yesterday Harriet Kimble, who sits on the
government advisory body on BSE, said: "We were
assured that there is no infectivity in blood so we
allowed renderers to use it in feedstuffs.
"If it is shown blood can transmit the infection, we
will have to reverse that decision."
A Ministry of Agriculture spokesman claimed there
was an "informal ban" on bovine blood. He said the
Meat and Livestock Commission and feed
producers had agreed to use only PIG BLOOD in a
bid to reduce the risk.
The spokesman added: "There is only one
confirmed case of BSE which was announced in
July. It was suspected to be a case of maternal
transmission. Our experts are looking at any number
of other animals, but until they have been
confirmed, they are not BSE."
Mad cow disease, first identified in 1985, was
traced to feed containing cow parts and sheep
brains infected with scrapie.
It crippled British agriculture for years and the
industry is still reeling from the fall-out.
France and Germany still ban imports of British
beef.
Some 175,000 BSE-infected cattle were
slaughtered and another 4.8million killed as a
precaution.
The ban on the use of cows' brains, offal, spines
and bones has been rigorously enforced in the hope
newborn animals would be free from the disease.
This year over 850 cows born before 1996 have
been diagnosed with BSE.
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