USA Today examines the threat of mad cow disease in the U.S. asking "did you know ... that calves, instead of drinking their mothers' milk, are fed formula made from cows' blood [3]? ... Says John Stauber, [co-]author of Mad Cow USA: Could the Nightmare Happen Here? [4]: 'What we need to do is obvious but economically painful for the livestock industry. That's to implement exactly the same regulations that exist in Britain and Europe and ban all feeding of slaughterhouse waste to livestock. Every time there's media attention to this issue, every time consumers and producers start asking questions, we get this lip service out
of USDA and FDA that 'Yes, we need to do the right thing; it's just going to take time.' But they're just not ready to bite the bullet -- it's too economically painful for the livestock feed industry."