We share 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees

It is said that the disease is caused by protein supplements, in the form of infected meat and bone from the diseased animals, added to the animal feed of herbivorous animals.

# The mad cow disease can spread when healthy animals ingest tainted tissues from other animals carrying this disease.
# In this disease, the consumed mutated prion cause deformation of cellular prion proteins, present in the brain cells. This leads to a chain of reaction in which normal prion protein is deformed. The deformed prion protein comes together to form a plaque fiber in the brain
# A change in British law, permitting the sterilization of the meat and bone to be added to the cattle feed, at a lower temperature also contributed to the spread of the disease

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It is said that the disease is caused by protein supplements, in the form of infected meat and bone from the diseased animals, added to the animal feed of herbivorous animals.

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# The mad cow disease can spread when healthy animals ingest tainted tissues from other animals carrying this disease.
# In this disease, the consumed mutated prion cause deformation of cellular prion proteins, present in the brain cells. This leads to a chain of reaction in which normal prion protein is deformed. The deformed prion protein comes together to form a plaque fiber in the brain
# A change in British law, permitting the sterilization of the meat and bone to be added to the cattle feed, at a lower temperature also contributed to the spread of the disease

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/mad-cow-disease-facts.html

You are right. I only meant that herbivores were fed stuff carnivores would eat. All the tainted proteins were rendered i.e. cooked. The stuff wasn't fed raw.

Those were quotes from the website.

I disagree with Setanta. Sharing our DNA with others is the right thing to do.

Oh yeah? How do you want to go . . . baked, broiled, boiled . . . ?

As long as there's lots of butter I don't think it matters. Beyond that is the issue of what wine to choose.

Garlic . . . don't forget the garlic . . .

Garlic and onions, my friend. Proof that God loves us.

Hogwash. Garlic cures all ills, including attack by vampires and dementia. And if you don't believe it, I've got a sack of onions you can suck on.

Eventually, you will outlive your friends and their opinions, unless recorded for posterity, no longer will matter.

People with various genetic diseases share 99.9% of the DNA with healthy people. People with excesive hair, 6 toes and so on probably share 99.9% of the DNA with normal people. People with black skin, brown skin, yellow and white skin have been fighting because of the concept of race even though thay all share 99.9% of the genes. Just tiny deviation hardly measurable create so much conflict.

Now, cloned animals and genetically modified animals are allowed as edible food. Considering that barely measurable differences in DNA can cause so much problem, are clones suitable as food? Already bovine hormones fed to animals may have led to obesity in people and antibiotics fed to unhealthy animals may have bred superbugs. Will clones that cannot survive on their own be suitable as food. Will they bring about minor changes in DNA such that we may have among us "monsters" or "defects" with excessive hair, toes, blue skin, etc.? It does not take much to alter the genes or to have them expressed in unusual ways. Just 2% difference in DNA separate man from beast.

It is like feeding poisoned food. It will take years maybe before symptoms appear. Look at obesity. There has never been such a bad case of obesity in human history. It is like the frog in a beaker case. Slowly heat the beaker and boil the frog to death. The frog will jump out from a beaker full of boiling water. It is little changes that killed the frog. The corporations are doing the same but the guardians (the government regulators) have been neutralized by corruption in the political arena.

We share 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees

Our results imply that humans and chimpanzees differ by at least 6% (1,418 of 22,000 genes) in their complement of genes, which stands in stark contrast to the oft-cited 1.5% difference between orthologous nucleotide sequences. This genomic “revolving door” of gene gain and loss represents a large number of genetic differences separating humans from our closest relatives.