THE Bharatiya Cattle Resource Development Foundation, New Delhi, a non-governmental Organisation (NGO), haslaunched a national campaign againstthe usage of animal based material incattle feed. Speaking at a press conference in New Delhi, L N Modi, theManaging Trustee of the Foundationinformed of the risks involved in the useof bone meal, meat meal, blood meal,silkworm pupae and calcimined bonemeal in cattle feed. "The origins of MadCow Disease or BSE in Europe are the useof animal products in animal feed. Thethreat Of BSE has lead to the slaughter ofmore than a crore of cattle in UK alone,"he informed.
Use of animal based products inlivestock feed can cause contaminationby viruses which can pass on throughthe food chain to humans, as BSE hasalready done in the form of an outbreakof Creutzfeldt -Jakob disease. In Indiaone case of the disease in humans wasreported last year from Calcutta.