11.   British cattle apparently were infected with BSE when they ate feed supplemented with the ground-up carcases of sheep infected with the brain-wasting disease scrapie.

12.   Defectors to South Korea report people in the countryside eating animal feed and dreaming of a meal with meat.

13.   Faced with an acute corn shortage that has sent prices soaring, thousands of desperate Malawians have recently resorted to eating animal feed to survive.

14.   Faced with an acute corn shortage that has sent prices soaring, thousands of desperate Malawians have resorted to eating animal feed to survive.

15.   Its presence was believed to have resulted from pigs eating feed doctored with the drug, the government said in a statement.

16.   Mass-produced white pigs live in cramped stalls and eat synthetic feed that may contain growth hormones and animal fat.

17.   One girl said she was kept in a pigsty for three days and forced to eat animal feed.

18.   One way the disease is thought to be transmitted is when cattle eat feed containing the ground parts of other infected animals.

19.   Some believe British cattle developed mad cow disease after eating feed that included offal from sheep infected with the degenerative disease scrapie.

20.   Some scientists believe British cattle developed mad cow disease after eating feed that included offal from sheep infected with scrapie, a degenerative brain disease.