But that day, I was angry. There's never been a documented case of BSE in the United States. It was first identified in 1986 in Great Britain. The majority of cases have been concentrated there.
Scientists say it results from grinding parts of ruminant animals that are then fed to livestock.
Seidenberger said that after a vegetarian activist guest claimed BSE could become a greater problem than AIDS, she was so upset she called the show. So I immediately sat down a wrote a letter. I had never been moved to write a celebrity before in my life. I had only written to congressmen. Randy Carson, president and co-owner of Abilene Livestock Auction, which also owns Amarillo Livestock Auction, had expected the verdict.