Don_Kiddick
02-09-2005, 10:08
From The Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=361076&in_page_id=1770) So it must be true! :D
But it's on the radio & TV news as well.... :thumbsup:
Mad cow disease may have originated from human remains mixed into cattle feed, according to a controversial new theory.
Over those decades Britain imported hundreds of thousands of tons of ground-up animal parts for use as fertiliser and the manufacture of feed. Nearly half this meat-and-bone meal came from the Indian sub-continent.
The human material could be traced to corpses disposed of in rivers in accordance with Hindu funeral custom.
He said it was "highly likely" that the mixing of human remains in meal material exported from India and Pakistan had occurred since the late 1950s, and may still be continuing.
"In India and Pakistan, gathering large bones and carcasses from the land and from rivers has long been an important trade for peasants," he wrote.
"Collectors encounter considerable quantities of human as well as animal remains as a result of religious customs. Hindus believe that it is essential for their remains after death to be disposed of in a river, preferably the Ganges.
"The ideal is for the body to be burned, but most people cannot afford enough wood for full cremation, and simply smoking the pelvis in women or the thorax in men has symbolic importance. Many complete corpses are thrown into the river."
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Excerpts taken from web page see link for full account... :suspect:
But it's on the radio & TV news as well.... :thumbsup:
Mad cow disease may have originated from human remains mixed into cattle feed, according to a controversial new theory.
Over those decades Britain imported hundreds of thousands of tons of ground-up animal parts for use as fertiliser and the manufacture of feed. Nearly half this meat-and-bone meal came from the Indian sub-continent.
The human material could be traced to corpses disposed of in rivers in accordance with Hindu funeral custom.
He said it was "highly likely" that the mixing of human remains in meal material exported from India and Pakistan had occurred since the late 1950s, and may still be continuing.
"In India and Pakistan, gathering large bones and carcasses from the land and from rivers has long been an important trade for peasants," he wrote.
"Collectors encounter considerable quantities of human as well as animal remains as a result of religious customs. Hindus believe that it is essential for their remains after death to be disposed of in a river, preferably the Ganges.
"The ideal is for the body to be burned, but most people cannot afford enough wood for full cremation, and simply smoking the pelvis in women or the thorax in men has symbolic importance. Many complete corpses are thrown into the river."
:gag: :gag: :gag:
Excerpts taken from web page see link for full account... :suspect: