Ossage; The west has a lot more reason to be upset about eastern decisions than Quebec does. Between oil regulations and the wheat board they keep getting unsavory laws shoved down their throats.

Mad cow was started from feeding cattle sheep that had scrapies. The same disease has been shown to cause similar diseases in humans and other animals. Our present laws still allow the use of diseased cattle and sheep in pet and chicken feed. It's too easy to unintentionally get feed mixed up and end up spreading this disease.

My worry is not even the feed aspect it's that elk and deer picked up CWD from scrapie infected feed lots. These animals got a disease similar to mad cow without eating contaminated animal parts. It is only supposed to take a fraction of a gram of prions to pass on the disease. Now that the genie is out of the bottle with deer and elk, how can cattle feeding in the same areas be protected?

A person that I worked with died of CJD last year. It took him a month to deteriorate. The family was forced to have him cremated as this is the only way to eliminate risk of the disease. The government blamed a trip that he had made to Europe as the cause of his disease but that's an easy way to say our system is safe.

Dan O.