The British Government's Response to the Mad Cow Epidemic

The UK government realized what they had on their hands in March of 1987. It's not until June of 1988, nearly two years after they find the first case that they ban the practice of feeding bone meal to cows. "It feels a little bit like the time when very early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, when people are like, Oh, and 95 masks don't even work"