Dead Indians caused BSE

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Animal feed contaminated with human remains may have caused the first cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), suggests a hypothesis. Alan Colchester and Nancy Colchester propose a new theory consisting of three hypotheses: that human TSE-contaminated material was the cause of BSE; that this was transmitted orally via animal feed; and that the infective material originated from the Indian subcontinent. They present circumstantial evidence showing that human material was imported into the UK from India with other animal remains for the production of animal feed over a long period. They also propose that human TSE and BSE strain characteristics have sufficient similarities to be consistent with their hypothesis.
source: The Lancet (http://www.thelancet.com/)

wonder what having your remains eaten by cows means for the reincarnation cycle. :D

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and this is how it's supposed to have happened:

Hinduism usually has the dead burned, poor families who cannot afford the ceremony deposit the remains in rivers, most popular for that is Ganga, where they found 60 corpses (http://www.ecofriends.org/reports/032gangacorpses.htm) with 6 miles of river in 2 days of cleaning up in 2004.

corpses, mind. once the skeleton remains, it's hard to find.

in 2001 a bone exporting businessman from Calcutta was found guilty of having sold human bones to India, Pakistan and the US.
poor farmers collect bones from and sell them to companies like that.

and supposedly in the 1960s a british medical assistant working in a Channel harbour confirmed they found human bones in a delivery from India.

[JT]

:mcdonalds

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did you want fries with that? :D

[JT]

did you want fries with that? :D

Yes please a dead Indian burger and large fries :mcdonalds

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that must be a fascinating topic, it's been posted elsewhere shortly after this thread. good to see many read the Lancet, innit, Robert? :D