'Double double, toil and trouble, round about the cauldron go. In the
crushed brains and spinal cord throw, thalamus, spleen, and tonsils
also, then cool it with tainted blood, Well done, for we shall gain a
greater profit to share with the farmers and our meat trade.'
A factual and harrowing account of Mark Buckland's, a young man's,
progressive decline by variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the
human form of BSE; namely 'Mad Cow's disease'. This book documents the
shocking failures by a Conservative Government when it came to food
safety standards, a cannibalistic feed that defied nature and led to a
misfolded protein causing an infectious brain disease, and failures by
the NHS and Department of Health regarding the NHS Blood Transfusion
Service.
This is also a tale of a father's grief, family and friends who pull
together in a tragic time to support a special, loving and caring man,
who has his life spat out by the 'Witches within Westminster'.