Why would the Wraith even create the equivalent of WMDs?
They’re killing us not because they sadistically want us dead, but because they need to consume us for food. It would be like the equivalent of cattle farmers creating mad cow disease.” – McKay • ‘WMD’ stands for “weapon of mass destruction.” WMDs are weapons designed to kill large numbers of people, typically targeting civilians and military personnel alike. Some types of WMDs are considered to have a psychological impact rather than a strictly military usefulness. The types of weapons in this class are: nuclear, biological, chemical, and explosive weapons. • Mad cow disease, scientific term bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which infects by a mechanism that shocked biologists on its discovery in late 20th century and appears transmissible to humans. While never having killed cattle on a scale comparable to other dreaded livestock diseases, such as hoof-and-mouth and rinderpest, BSE has attracted wide attention because of its apparent t