If only they could talk In Britain if a hundred people have been infected with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. milllions of cows will have to be destroyed. an aftermath the slaughter of entire herds of infected and potentially infected farm animals Agricultural infernoIf only they could talk • In Britain if a hundred people have been infected with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, millions of cows will have to be destroyed. an aftermath -- the slaughter of entire herds of infected and potentially infected farm animals. • Agricultural inferno