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But not to every slaughterhouse they inspect, every time they inspect it.
It sounds as if the Australian meat industry has now found the right official to influence, who could in turn influence the inspectors so that they now don't inspect with quite the same high level of creative rigour that they used to.
Oddly enough, Australia is one of the few countries in the world that seems to be free from bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE), so you can't use that to explain Phil's symptoms (and it doesn't make you mindlessly aggressive - read up on variant Creutzfeldt-Jakobs Disease (v-CJD) for the actual symptoms, which include anxiety, depression and withdrawal).
Since I lived in England while the disease rose to prominence, I am at risk , though I'm a lot older than the typical victim, and - despite your inexpert diagnosis - no more anxious, depressed and withdrawn than I've been for the past forty years ...