Bessie was real old.
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A few more details have emerged about the sad old dairy cow that sparked this week’s national media panic about mad cow disease. The upshot: It was really old (ten years, to be exact), it was from a dairy in Tulare County, it had been euthanized after becoming lame, and it was headed for a rendering plant and not into the food supply. Also, the type of the disease it had was “atypical,” i.e. the kind that develops naturally, on rare occasions in older animals, and not from contaminated feed. [AP, Earlier]
