Another novel, MadCows, was also turned into a film - starring Anna Friel as Maddy, a sarcastic new mother who finds herself in Holloway prison after an arrest for shoplifting in Harrods and is forced to turn to her less than reliable boyfriend.
However feeding animals by-products of other animals can transmit dangerous diseases to humans, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) in cows.
Mad-cow disease is clearly no respecter of national boundaries: cattle and cattle-feed are traded (and cows sometimes actually walk) across borders in the Union.