Before donating blood today, I was asked this question among the other six thousand they normally ask: "have you spent more than five years living in Europe?"What difference would that make in the fitness of my blood," I asked.
"Mad cow disease. They don't want it entering the U.S. blood supply."
What? If I eat a hamburger in EU, do I have to worry about such things? Do y'all worry about getting Mad Cow Disease via your beef consumption over there? I thought we, the Americans, were supposed to have beef Europeans objected to, not the other way around.
What's up with that?
