
Morikazu Shinagawa, one of Japan's top experts on bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, stands in front of the brandnew National Institute of Animal Health agriculture research center... 7.1 billion yen (US$63 million) home in Tsukuba... admits he has a lot to learn about actually raising cows. Not that keeping them healthy is his main concern _ he plans to force-feed his stock the infected brains of other cows, then study how they die.