Interesting blog post

I am always happy to find regular people (as in non-CJD families) who are concerned with the safety of their food and whether mad cow disease is a threat in our country. This blog/podcast asks that very thing.

I tried to leave a comment but couldn't figure out where to log in to do so. But here is my comment nonetheless:

Mad cow disease is a very real threat to public health and affects society greatly every single day more than the average person knows. This is something you can only firmly comprehend after your life has been touched by something like CJD, the human form of mad cow disease and also the fatal disease that killed my mother, Phyllis Larson, nearly two years ago. Though her disease was genetic, I have learned a great deal of upsetting information about BSE in America. One thing that is very unfortunate is that the USDA tests less than one tenth of one percent of the cows Americans consume for BSE. It's a "don't look; don't find" policy. Another unfortunate side affect CJD has on society is that everyone who loses a blood relative to CJD is no longer allowed to donate blood whether the disease was found on autopsy to be genetic or not. This has a tremendous detrimental effect on our blood supply. The majority of CJD cases in the U.S. are "sporadic" meaning we supposedly don't know where it comes from...doesn't that worry you somewhat? It should.