BSE Education
Claire has applied a scholarly approach to the Mad Cow hysteria by taking the time to find the actual facts concerning the disease:
She's right on target. The solutions to this problem aren't major policy changes and new rules. The solution, as is often the case, is education.
Please, take the time to read her entire post as well as the articles she's linked to, then spread the word. Its the best way to end the media hysteria and perhaps head off disaster for our cattle industry.
Go ahead -- point out how silly the media panic-frenzy is relative to the facts. You'll be torn to shreds by the illiterati who are so deeply invested in creating fear -- either as a revenue source or as shiny object of distraction [SOoD]. The major *fix* in this situation was accomplished when the requirements for manufactured feed where changed in 1997.
Our best option might be to launch a public education campaign to inform people of the facts of BSE. It will be difficult as the major political and media push will be to effect arcane and byzantine controls on the production and distribution of beef and beef products, instead of actually dealing with the facts. But, moo at windmills I must.
She's right on target. The solutions to this problem aren't major policy changes and new rules. The solution, as is often the case, is education.
Please, take the time to read her entire post as well as the articles she's linked to, then spread the word. Its the best way to end the media hysteria and perhaps head off disaster for our cattle industry.
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