To Your Health

British vegetarians are aghast that several rural water plants are using charcoal made from cow bones to filter drinking water. The bones, from India, cannot carry the “mad cow” disease plaguing some domestic cows, Yorkshire Water says. It could be worse: the San Diego, Calif., Metropolitan Wastewater Department is ready to begin “pioneering a process ...to get people comfortable with the idea of drinking treated sewage,” a spokesman says. The process would attach the outflow of sewage treatment plants to the inflow of local water reservoirs. (AP, UPI) ...Hollywood has been using that process for years for its feature films.