The Cow Who Killed Christmas

Orion Samuelson>LPL Interviews N-Z>LPL Interviews N-Z, Segment 16

The Cow Who Killed Christmas,

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GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS
First contact with Mad Cow Disease that affected this country was in Alberta, Canada. England had already been ravaged by the disease. It's a disease that destroys the nervous system. Fear of it attacking humans, though no confirmation of it actually killing humans. Orion feels it is the biggest non-story he's ever covered. Countries closed their borders to American beef that to this day haven't been fully reopened. Canada has had maybe a dozen cases, a couple in the United States. Reinforces the need for the National Animal Identification Act.