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Article: Television: Mad cows and Englishmen
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
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ER, I DON'T want to worry you, but we may all be eating our way
toward neurological disorders. This is thanks to Maff, the Ministry
of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, which seems not only indirectly
to have caused the problem, but is also busy trying to cover it up,
no doubt for fear of a million law-suits. In Frontline (C4),
organic dairy farmer Mark Purdey attributed all manner of trouble,
from mad cows to Parkinson's Disease, to the widespread (and
Government-endorsed) use of pesticides on British farms.
He dismisses Maff's explanation of mad cow disease - BSE - which
they blame on meat-based feed infected with scrapie. As Purdey
pointed out, this feed has been exported elsewhere with ...