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"Lately, don't eat beef."

Albert stared at the evening news playing on the television, his brow slightly furrowed as he spoke to Grandpa Luke, who sat across from him reading the newspaper and teasing the cat.

"We haven't eaten beef in a long time. No one dares to eat it now."

Sansa placed the plate of sliced fruit on the table and watched the news playing on the television. The announcer was going to great lengths to report on Mad Cow Disease.

Ever since Mad Cow Disease broke out in Britain in May, the government still had not found its cause. The condition also showed signs of spreading to other countries."

"They must have found the cause. They just don't dare tell the truth. The problem is probably with the feed for beef cattle." Albert speared a piece of pineapple and put it into his mouth. It tasted pretty good.

It was said that pineapples had once been very expensive in Europe, affordable only to the wealthy, so many rich Europeans liked eating pineapples or Pineapple Candied Fruit.

Of course, they preferred cooking pineapples as a dish.

At Albert's strong suggestion, the Anderson family had changed how they ate pineapples. They no longer cooked them as a dish, instead cutting them into chunks, soaking them in salt water for over half an hour, then taking them out to eat as fruit. That way, they no longer had that sour, astringent taste.

"Feed?" Luke was surprised. He did not understand why Albert would say that. Did he know something? But... what could Albert possibly know? He spent most of his time in the wizarding world now.

"Cannibalism."

Albert remembered that the cause of Mad Cow Disease was cannibalism. "I remember seeing something about it somewhere. Apparently, the natives of some island