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Cattle are herbivores by nature, and feeding herbivores a diet for carnivores may have triggered a protein reaction known as a prion, causing Mad Cow disease.

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Feeding cattle meat-and-bone meal containing infected ruminant tissues transmitted misfolded prion proteins (not a conventional pathogen), causing bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease).