Mad cow disease

             For preventing the spread of mad cow disease worldwide.
             Years after it was supposedly vanquished, mad cow disease, the brain infection that kills cows and some people who eat them, is on a comeback. The disease has spread widely in Europe, and there are danger signs in the United States, where has never appeared. Mad cow disease is one of several fatal brain diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs. After consuming the infected meat, the gruesome death starts with mood swings, numbness and uncontrolled body movements. Eventually the mind is destroyed, somewhat like Alzheimer's, another brain-wrecking disease. This devastating disease has brought upon many casualties and worries throughout the world. Now, everybody is obligated to consider the available options preventing the death of more innocent people.
             Meat is the main source for proteins, to which is supplied from the cows. Proteins are of great nutritional value and are directly involved in the chemical processes essential for life. The majority of people who live in the United States eat meat on a daily basis. Without the production of meat, humans would begin to stop eating because of the affect meat has on the people. In society today people of all ages love McDonalds. However, the people are risking their lives by eating a hamburger, which contains the deadly disease causing a fatal death when digested. Now the problem is that the production of infected cows is rapidly increasing, yet there is no purpose for them because of the disease it spreads.
             The only way to solve the over production of infected cows is to send them to elderly homes. With the infected cows being sent, older people from the ages of 50-70 will base their diets on meat. Even though the meat being consumed by the older people are infected, the outcome will have no effect on them. The reason for this is because of the fact that the disease comes into action twenty to thirty ye...

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