Mad Cow

[RACooper]

Hey... well now the US is experienceing the Mad Cow scare and the resulting impact to the beef industry.

I loved watching news and seeing the guy from the Dept. of Agriculture stating how wrong and reactionary other countries were being by banning the import of US beef..... the same guy that was the most intractable when it came to the Canadian Mad Cow scare, and refused to allow the import of Canadian beef..... hmm a little karma?

Okay now that I have gotten that off my chest I have a question or observation-

If I was a terrorist who was trying to bring down the "great capitalist satan blah blah blah" infecting some cattle with the disease would be the way I would go. BSE is realtively common outside of the devoloped world, and probably damn cheap to aquire, transport, and deploy. Think about the easy it would be to penetrate the "security" of some processing plants, or even cattle herds. Also think about the impact to the public opinion, the beef industry, international trade, and the "American way of life" (got to watch them burgers).