300,000 French cows can't be mad. Or can they?

The Telegraph reports that, over the past thirteen years, 300,000 cows in France were exposed to BSE -- mad cow disease. The findings were originally published in Veterinary Research. Six -- perhaps seven -- Frenchman have contracted the human variant of this prion-borne disease.

If the French kept this problem under wraps, I wonder what sort of disturbing dmoestic food-factoids have been covered up by the Bushites?