¡Las Vacas Locas Están Aquí!

By Mark Rabinowitz in Current Events | Food & Drink on June 24, 2005 4:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

From an alert I just received from CNN.com:

-- U.S. agriculture officials say tests on cow in the United States have come back positive for mad cow disease.

Also, according to The Associated Press, this test turned up positive in a cow that had previously tested negative for the disease and is the second case to hit the States. Apparently, the animal was a "downer," meaning that it was unable to walk, so it was barred from the food supply.

Whew! Well, at least we know that the cows that are both unable to walk and mis-diagnosed are barred from being burgers. What happens when a sprightly young thing is given a clean bill of health, only to turn up as calves brains on a fancy midtown menu.

Of course, now one starts to wonder why the poor thing was unable to walk to begin with....