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The BSE crisis becomes a lightning rod for other safety issues in the countryside, as an organic farmer turned self-taught scientist investigates his own BSE theories.
The BSE crisis becomes a lightning rod for other safety issues in the countryside. Organic farmer Mark Purdey becomes convinced pesticides are to blame for making cows go mad, and thinks they caused vCJD in humans too.
He sets out to prove his claims by crowd-funding for lab experiments. He becomes the star of the alternative mad cow disease community, for people who refuse to believe the official government narrative on BSE – or any other official narrative, for that matter.
Written, presented and produced by Lucy Proctor.
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Thu 20 Aug 202621:45
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- Tue 31 Oct 202313:45BBC Radio 4
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The Cows Are Mad
The strange tale of the 1990s BSE epidemic.
