Great Power Industry: You're a private company building an aircraft carrier?

Kangaroo Country, capital city.

"Damn it, a series of things have happened recently, and these things are not ordinary; there must be something going on! We need to find the mastermind behind this!" Howard said angrily. "We were originally planning for the government to fund the rescue of our domestic mines, but unexpectedly..."

Martindale lowered his head. It all started with the mines. They made a lot of wrong choices, which led to the situation getting completely out of control. When the Angolan iron ore scam was exposed, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton were forced into a corner and had to sell the mines!

For Australia, it seems to make no difference who gets the mine, since as long as the iron ore is sold and they can collect taxes, that's enough. But now it seems that things are definitely not as simple as they imagined; there's a lot more to it than meets the eye!

"Are the people who have been recently attacking our tourism industry the same group that's trying to ruin our mines?" Anthony asked.

The meeting room fell silent for a moment, then everyone erupted in anger: "It's definitely the same group! We must protest! Protest!"

"Damn it, what's the use of protesting? We have to take real action!" Martindale finally got fired up: "We'll let those bastards behind this know that Australia isn't so easily bullied, they..."

Boom!

Before he could finish speaking, the door opened, and a person rushed in, shouting, "Report! Something's happened!"

"what's up?"

"At the Ingby Manor farm, a cow suddenly gored a man to death!"

What's the rush?

Everyone looked at the speaker with curiosity. Cows are usually very docile and hardworking, but they may occasionally lose their temper. There's nothing special about that.

and many more!

Anthony was the first to react: "Mad cow disease?"

"Yes, the farm suspects their cattle may have contracted mad cow disease, so they want us to send experts over to check!"

Click!

Like a bolt from the blue, it exploded in everyone's heads. The mining industry suffered a severe blow, the tourism industry is now under global scrutiny, and if the livestock industry were to face another crisis, then...

This is truly a case of misfortunes never coming singly!

Ingby Park boasts a rich history, with hundreds of hectares of farmland used for grazing. At the heart of the estate stands a two-story, six-bedroom Georgian-style building, over 160 years old, offering a castle-like experience.

It is because of this that the owner of the estate, George Thomson, has always been proud of his estate, even to this day.

Mad cow disease!

Since its discovery in the UK in 1985, this disease has spread rapidly throughout the world. At its peak, as many as 180,000 cattle in the UK were diagnosed with the disease, affecting more than 30,000 farms. Moreover, if there was even one infected cow, all the cattle on the entire farm had to be slaughtered and burned.

In the UK alone, more than 11 million sick cattle were treated, resulting in economic losses of tens of billions of pounds!

Farmers who encounter this virus suffer a severe blow.

Australia is located on a continent and is quite safe, so it hasn't been greatly affected. Due to mad cow disease, global beef and milk prices have soared, and they are still among the beneficiaries.

just now……

“Mr. Smith, you’ve finally arrived!” Seeing a man in a white coat get out of a pickup truck, George Thomson quickly ran up to him: “We’ve already put that sick cow in a separate cell. I’ll take you there.”

Right next to this building was a small fenced-off estate where a cow was quietly grazing, as if nothing had happened, except for some dried bloodstains on its head that indicated the great thing it had done.

Smith walked over and carefully observed the cow's behavior.

It is currently in a quiet environment and seems to be behaving normally. However, the slight swaying of its body and the simultaneous movement of its fore and hind legs on the same side when it walks indicate that the cow's condition is not normal.

dong dong!

Smith placed the metal bar on the railing and tapped it a few times. The cow was immediately startled and began to tremble.

“If I’m not mistaken, this should be infected with mad cow disease,” Smith said. “It’s in the early stages of infection. During this time, when you were milking it, did you feel the cow kicking and thrashing around?”

"Ahem, this is a bull."

It would be abnormal if a bull didn't kick and thrash around while milking it!

Smith was slightly embarrassed, but before he could say anything else, George Thomson continued, "However, we have a few cows here that are indeed unwilling to be milked, and their milk production is decreasing significantly."

That's right, that's it!

Smith took a deep breath: "Those cows should be infected too, and your whole farm..."

When you find a cockroach in your house, it means there's a whole nest of cockroaches in there, and you've only seen one of them. Similarly, when you find a sick animal on a farm, it means there are many more that are infected!

Mad cow disease is like this, as are chicken plague and swine fever. Every time we see it, it means the entire farm needs to be thoroughly disinfected. Even healthy animals have to be killed because we don't know if they are infected!

George Thomson's face changed instantly: "This...how can this be...Our entire farm has more than 30,000 cattle! If we slaughter them all, shouldn't the government give us some subsidies?"

In the past, there would definitely have been subsidies, but now...

"You guys can apply for it yourselves. I don't know either. Right now, we need to slaughter this one and take its brain back for dissection."

Mad cow disease has many surface symptoms that can help in diagnosis, but a proper diagnosis requires dissecting the brain.

The physical changes caused by mad cow disease are not obvious, and there are no abnormalities in organs such as the liver. The main changes are in the central nervous system, where brain cells will develop vacuoles and astrocytes will proliferate. When the brain is dissected, amyloid protein fibers will also be found.

We can find out by dissecting it.

"So, the cow is still healthy?"

"Of course not. This beef can also be infected with prions. If people eat this kind of beef, they will be infected with the same virus and get JKD2 disease. If cows eat this kind of beef and bone powder, they will get mad cow disease."

The prevalence of mad cow disease in Europe is due to the lack of large pastures. Cattle raised in Europe are kept in pens and fed feed, much of which is made from bone powder. This means that consuming feed contaminated with prions naturally leads to widespread infection with mad cow disease.

George Thomson's face grew increasingly grim: "Is... the only option to slaughter them all?"

"That's right, it still needs to be burned."

George Thomson plopped down on the ground. It's over, it's all over!