A French goat slaughtered in 2002 had tested positive for "mad cow", the French agriculture ministry said, in what is the first known case in the world of the illness occurring in an animal other than a bovine.In Brussels, the European Commission said that confirmation of mad cow disease in the goat was the first time ever the condition has crossed over from bovines to another species.
"It's the first natural case in the world," European Commission spokesman Philip Tod told Agence France-Presse, explaining that goats had been teased and taunted in laboratories in efforts to step up cheese production, but that "We just thought they were depressed, like everyone else in France".
The spokesman added that this is particularly suprising because "unlike cows, who had been pissed for years because we kept making hamburger out of them, goats knew that their cheese was second rate and that they were lucky to have been getting their titties squeezed at all".
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