YOU just couldn’t make it up. Government scientists spend four years
painstakingly injecting hundreds of mice with the remains of thousands of sheep
brains in a bid to resolve the biggest unanswered question of the BSE
crisis—whether British lamb was infected along with beef. Preliminary
findings indicate some evidence of BSE. Ministers, fearing the worst, draw up
contingency plans to slaughter the entire flock. Then, the bombshell. The brains
being tested are not from sheep at all. They are from cows.
Even hardened chroniclers of the myriad scientific cock-ups and cover-ups of
Britain’s BSE years were stunned last week…
