A fatal brain disease in cattle that is also known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (BSE). It is caused by harmful proteins called prions, and the symptoms are similar to Altzheimers, because the
brain basically turns into a useless sponge.
Originally, Mad
Cow was a brain disease in
sheep called scrapie, but was eventually transferred to cows by some
fucking cheapass farmers who saved a few bucks by mixing sheep brains in the cattle feed, knowing damn well that cattle are herbivores. Humans who eat Mad
Cow beef develop a similar brain-wasting disease called Creutzfeld-Jakob disease.
As for the Mad
Cow scare in the
U.S., the
cow that was tested positive for the disease was STILL sent to the slaughterhouse and its meat shipped out two weeks before the story made it to the news. And every step now taken to prevent the disease from spreading to humans may be too late because there may have already been hundreds or thousands of Mad Cows that have been slaughtered, chopped up, purchased by consumers, eaten, digested, and metabolized. Oh well. It's only a matter of
time before some of us start to drop dead from Mad
Cow disease.
But on the other
hand, Mad
Cow disease may also be a hoax because there are also confirmed cases of non-beef eaters, vegetarians, and vegans who have died from diseases that are very similar to Mad
Cow.