This assumption not only ignored the kuru tragedy; it also overlooked the hundreds of young people who had died of spongiform encephalopathy after receiving growth hormones extracted from human corpses. This mixture of hubris, ignorance, and subservience to commercial interests reached peak toxicity in 1990, when the UK’s agriculture minister, John Gummer, televised his daughter eating a hamburger, declaring that British beef was safe.
这一假设不仅忽视了库鲁病悲剧，也忽视了数百例因注射从人类尸体提炼的生长激素而导致海绵状脑病最终致死的例子。自大、无知和对商业利益的屈服在1990年引起了最大后果，当时，英国农业大臣约翰·古墨（John Gummer）用电视直播其女吃汉堡的镜头，宣布英国牛肉是安全的。