ones breaking the law. Five Brittians were found guilty selling tons of chicken that were deemed unhealthy for human consumption. This obviously was one of the contributions to the huge number of cases in Britain, since this was a multi-million dollar operation (Five Britons).In the United States, the billion dollar per year cattle industry is itself, infected with agribusiness greed, preventing any possibility of truthful or timely disclosure of Mad Cow Disease. Although American beef consumption has been nearly cut in half since 1980, the beef industry has never been as lucrative. With eight five percent of cattle farmers reporting profitability up form only 15% in 1996. Ironically Europe’s crisis has been a huge boom to the BSE free meat exports, which has shot up thirty four percent last year. Russian’s imports from American have more than twenty fold since last year. Mad cow has clearly been great for business, although McDonald’s has suffered large European losses in the aftermath of the wide spread disease. American Farmers and agriculture businesses are at a boom, due to the fact that all of the countries infected want the uninfected beef for their own consumption on a higher safety level. With this unexpected cash flow, many doubt that the USDA will reveal that any BSE infected cows have been discovered in the United States. Alas, this would lead to public panic and an agricultural market collapse.Theories on Origins of BSEIt existed in Britain in undetectable levels and when the industry or environment started changing rapidly the result was the increase in the incidence of BSE. BSE spread unhampered by the industry and environment after the initial appearance of BSE as an impulsive event in cattle. A very practical reason for the spread of Mad Cow Disease is in Britain during the 1980’s started by cannibalistic practices of feeding cows ground up protein of dead cows, sheep, and other types of...
