Mad Cow Disease part 4 - unblocking the beef chain

Mad Cow Disease part 4 - unblocking the beef chain

March 30, 2026 · 43 min · Season 4 · Episode 6

About this episode

The episode discusses the lessons learned from the Mad Cow Disease crisis, focusing on market interventions and public perception.

In our last episode on Mad Cow Disease, we take our final lessons from the public servicing of this massive health, agricultural and economic crisis. With the benefit of hindsight, we weigh the significant market interventions and public perception against actual transmission data. In this episode: What decision making looks like under radical uncertainty, where its government's job to keep things running.The massive supply chain repercussions of the beef ban, and how much experti...

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