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Article: NUTRITION HOTLINE.
- Article from:
- Vegetarian Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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This month's Nutrition Hotline discusses vegetarian concerns about mad cow disease and non-dairy sources of calcium
QUESTION: Should vegetarians be concerned about mad cow disease?
RA, Florida
ANSWER: Mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a disease that affects the central nervous system of cattle and is ultimately fatal. Apparently, mad cow disease is caused by feeding cattle meat-and-bone meal composed of the bodies of cattle already affected with mad cow disease, or sheep with a similar disease called scrapie. A disease in humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is apparently caused by eating meat ...