"We are doing something to an animal that was never intended to be done," he says. "If only one of them has mad cow disease, it has the potential to affect thousands" The U.S. should have cows eating grass, not other cows, CNN's John Sutter writes.
On April 16, 1996, Oprah Winfrey did a show about mad cow disease. Six weeks later, a couple of Texas cattlemen had a cow (sorry).