Thirty years ago, the first mad cow case in France

It is a crisis in three acts which, between 1990 and the 2000s, had a phenomenal impact in the media and deeply marked the spirits.

Remember: those images of cows shaking their hindquarters, the heartbreaking tales of the families of the victims of the human form of the disease, animal meal and 'cannibalistic' animals, the British meat embargo, the multiple scandals.

An awareness that permanently changed our way of considering our plate.

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The case began in the mid-1980s in the United Kingdom.

Cattle ranchers see a strange affection in their animals, similar to scrapie in sheep.

First a new aggressiveness and nervousness, then a disorderly gait, finally tremors of their lower limbs before they collapse and die.

In 1986, the disease was identified and named bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

This prion disease - a poorly conformed protein - causes

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