Many thanks for the share @brightideas... a very enlightening article :O)
Perhaps the scariest thing about the BSE / Mad Cow Disease crisis in the 80's / 90's here in the UK, was UK Government Ministers not only eating beef burgers live on TV, trying to prove and brush off any potential 'health risk' that could come from eating British Beef... but also feeding it to their children... live on British TV.
This was of course a publicity stunt, made in an effort to quell any hysteria that might result from the name Mad Cow Disease... and the sight of British Cows not being able to walk properly... let alone stand.
It's fine if you are an adult, and you want to eat potentially infected meat, and run the risk of acquiring CJD / Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, said to be the human form of BSE... but to force feed it to your children... or manipulate them into eating it in front of TV cameras, and therefore the nation... with no rigorous testing of that meat to check that it's not infected... merely to score a political goal... is an absolute dereliction of parent duty... and and absolutely disgraceful thing to do... and to their own children too.
Far greater testing of meat is needed to avoid potential human infection, and with the standards of meat testing likely to be lower after Brexit, to allow US meat to be sold in the UK... the possibility of this spreading to the UK is far greater.