Not Just The Cows Are Mad

There is another suspected Mad Cow case here in British Columbia. The cow in question is six years old, so the infection may have occurred a few years ago. It is a little bit of a relief since may not be a new infection. It does provide another warning on the safety of our food and the ‘science’ of commercial entities. It was the feed industry that decided to make vegetarian farm animals into cannibals. For years ‘science’ had been provided to the public to rebut calls for this practise. A few years ago, we realize this is not a very good idea when people started to get sick. I wonder what happened to the people who have been providing us with the ‘science’ justifying it? This is not a unique case either. Time and again, industry calls whoever does not agree with them ‘nutcases’ and ‘extremist’ only to find that it is the industry that is mad. We get all up in arms when a toy may fall and hurt an infant but allow industries to put our lives and our world in horrific risk. We cannot be too careful about this sort of things. Take GMO for example. It is not something we can be too careful about. If human existence is depending on it, we may want to move it in the pace we do now. Short of that though, there is no reason we should not take all cautions. We simply cannot afford to go ‘oops’ a few years down the line. The ‘oops’ maybe what put us in disaster.