No more ox tail? Mad cow problem

[HamdenRice]

I came over here from GD after reading about mad cow disease to ask a question of the cooking enthusiasts. As many of you probably know, a cow in Alabama was recently found to have mad cow disease, the third in the US.

One of my favorite recipes is ox tail, and the tail is a continuation of the spinal cord. Ox tail is one of my favorite dishes. I also use homemade beef stock to make ox tail, and the beef bones I have used in the past to make the stock are the beef neck bones readily available as stew bones in the local super markets.

From your perspectives is it time to stop eating ox tail and making stock from neck bones? Or are the risks too miniscule to worry?

Have any of you changed your cooking habits?