20 Years of Lies: The Mad Cow BSE Scandal | Plainly Difficult Documentary

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The Mad Cow Disease scandal was the British Governments attempt to cover up the link between beef and variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD) Which would result in thousands being exposed to the illness......

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02:12 Background
06:02 A Strange Illness
12:24 Max the Cat
18:31 VCJD
20:19 Inquiry
22:12 Summary

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[zachmiller]

I can't be the only one who thinks forcing cows to be cannibals was a bad idea from conception, right?

[nua]

My uncle worked in a butcher’s, and warned us not to eat beef, as cows were stumbling into the slaughter house and something was wrong. This was a few years before the media got wind of it.

[livescript]

A girl in my high-school died of CJD. She was a couple years ahead of me and I remember people describing it as if she died of alzheimers. Slowly she had more trouble in school and then very quickly she forgot how to get around the school and where her locker was. After that she stopped coming to school and eventually they said at assembly she'd died peacefully in her sleep. I guess that's what you tell a group of kids but... man it was just so sad we felt so bad for her family. God bless them.

[mediocreclementine]

I live in the US and a couple years ago while working as a nurse aide I took care of a 55 y/o lady dying of CJD. It's a horrific illness. She was scared and confused and hallucinating the whole time we had her, with her husband trying to grapple with the situation as well. It's sickening to learn how the government of the UK was aware of an outbreak to that extent and did nothing. It's easy to discuss it in an academic context like this until you remember that each person infected with CJD was a real person who suffered tremendously while their lives were cut short. I never knew the whole story behind this. All I knew was that blood banks here in the US often permanently defer people who lived in the UK for more than a couple weeks between the mid 80s and mid 90s. Thank you for this video, beautifully done and super informative!

[davidmoore]

I was born in 1990 and when I was about five I asked my dad what BSE stood for. He said it was "Blame Somebody Else". It took me years to realise he wasn't serious.

[m.streicher]

I'd be more surprised if forced cannibalism DIDN'T create some terrifying plight on humanity.

[AMEENHAI]

i am a 60 years old vet and microbiologist, i see this is a very scientific and informative analysis of the scandal, when politicians don't listen to professionals, this will happen over and over again

[assailant]

In 2010, some of my friends and I chose Mad Cow Disease as the topic for research for a project about diseases in 5th grade. We went through a ton of effort: we actually got interviews with doctors, read medical journals, and made a whole skit to present it and its dangers. We won the award.

[kosmikme]

One of my family members was unfortunately one of the victims of VCJD. I wasn't born yet when he passed away, but it's still a scar in my family tree, and most of my family blame the govt. for being incompetent.
Thanks for shedding light on this!

[cassied.]

I raised sheep as a kid, and to think that they saw something like scrapie and didn’t put in place similar measures as sheep owners did is astounding to me. All sheep (in the US, at least) are required to have a scrapie tag - basically a permanent ID earring - that tracks where the sheep originally came from. This is important because it can take as long as 5 years for the disease to show up, so the number can be used to track down the original owner - and that owner will almost certainly have to entirely rebuild their breeding stock. All those animals are seen as infected, and all other sheep they may have been in contact with over the years are at risk. Even though it hasn’t made the jump to other animals, that doesn’t make it any less serious if a disease - especially since the more chances you give a disease to mutate and change, the more likely one mutation will get lucky someday.

[brownell]

I remember the conversation circa 2000... "How could this happen with all of the advances we've made as a civilization?"... Meanwhile the background curtain parts, showcasing the industry practices... "Oh, right. Nevermind". John, you never fail to deliver.

[jrmckim]

Growing up on a small dairy farm in south Louisiana, it hurts my heart to hear when these beautiful creatures are harmed. We treated our girls like the queens they were. "Happy cows make the most milk" is what my grandfather always said.
I grew up always defending my family's little farm because people thought we let the babies starve while taking all the milk 😅. Which is so far from the truth as the mommas always came running and would push each other to be milked first. While getting milked, we would brush and give them treats. Once a month my grandfather would check their feet.
We loved them so much. Each one was unique and liked different things. People dont realize cows are very smart and they each have their own personalities. They like music too. My grandmother used to sing to them at the fence and eventually most would come to see her... get a scratch here or a pat there.
Then hurricane Katrina came and only 3 made it out alive. We lost our home and most of our animals. We took the remaining animals and moved to north Louisiana, where we still live today. Our last cow died in 2015 then our last horse in 2018.
Rip my babies

[AdidasG]

Lost a family friend to this years ago. He went from a healthy guy in his 40s to basically unresponsive and in need of hospice care in a matter of weeks.

[simonlebeau]

I was 10 when this was unfolding. It was terrifying. Terrified my mum into forcing the whole family vegetarian and to decline school meals even though she was a single parent on benefits during Thatchers Britain.

[katie]

My dad died of vCJD in 2002. He went from the loveliest man and most dedicated father in the world to someone who couldnt recognise his children. He was 34. I had just turned 8 when he passed and I hated my birthday for years because I associated it with being in the hospital with him and him not knowing who I was. He died three months after he was diagnosed but honestly he wasnt the same person within a month.

[bonnieharris]

About 3 years ago, a lifelong friend of mine died from CJD. He was in his 60s, very healthy and active. From first symptoms, it took about 4 months to kill him. He was in hospital those last few weeks.

It still exists and it's still here. This case is from the USA, BTW. Western USA.

[mikegregory]

I used to work in sterilization for surgical instruments.
After a surgery with anyone with confirmed prions all instruments are thrown away and destroyed, it is too hard to fully and consistently kill/destroy prions.

[evilempryss]

Poor Farmer Stent. You know he was like "Could we NOT name this disease after my farm?" 😭

[beethimbles]

I lived in rural Devon. It was hideous. I too was a vegetarian already by then. But I LITERALLY walked past the burning bodies on the way to school. Twice a day, everyday, we had to hold our breath and run. My family friends parents lost everything. It was and still is a traumatic scar on my memory. Bee, from a dark and wet corner of Lancashire.