Editorial Board Letter About Mad Cow Disease

A letter to editorial staff about mad cow disease. While the Food and Drug Administration now has begun to take steps to control the spread of Mad Cow disease, the outbreak is a reminder that what we feed to animals can have dramatic health consequences for consumers.While the lessons from the Mad Cow issue are still fresh, we urge you to editorialize in favor of bipartisan bills in Congress to phase out the routine feeding to livestock of antibiotics that are important in human medicine.