Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Scientific research has linked this practice to the spread of both mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE) and avian bird flu.
Manure and animal waste -- This can include cattle manure, swine waste, and poultry waste. It can also contain wood, sand, rocks, dirt, sawdust and other non-food substances.
Animal byproducts -- This is often categorized as "animal protein products" and may appear as rendered feathers, hair, skin, hooves, blood, internal organs, intestines, beaks and bones. These may also include dead horses, euthanized cats and dogs, and road kill. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| BSE —Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow Disease, is a condition caused by a prion found in the central nervous system of infected cattle.
Carbohydrates — Sugars made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Sugars may be simple (sucrose or sugar), complex (starch), or glycogen. Glycogen is usually stored in the liver and muscles.
Diabetes mellitus Type I — A disease characterized by a lack of insulin production. Also known as Insulin dependent diabetes (IDDM).
Diabetes mellitus Type II —A disease characterized by cells of the body being resistant to insulin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So what happens when consumers eating this stuff suffer bizarre neurological disorders like the human form of mad cow disease? Blame China!
In fact, the U.S. food supply is a toxic brew of synthetic chemicals and artificially modified molecules that are extremely harmful to human health. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is the official unwritten USDA policy on mad cow disease. It's call the "close your eyes and pretend it doesn't exist" policy, which is, coincidentally, the exact same policy followed by the Bush Administration global warming team.
So the next time you hear the FDA warning you about how dangerous and deadly all those Chinese products are, remember what they're NOT telling you: the hazards of American-made food and personal care products, almost all of which are intentionally and knowingly laced with cancer-causing chemicals. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 For obvious reasons—like concerns with viruses like mad cow disease—no one is using or selling PS from bovine sources anymore. The PS now on the market as a supplement comes from soy, and there is a huge controversy over whether it's as effective.
Phosphatidylserine is basically a serine molecule attached to some fat, and the fat in a cow's brain is 7 percent omega-3, which is what the serine molecule likes to bind to. There's no omega-3 in the soy. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 These so-called slow viruses known as prions are made of proteins rather than DNA or RNA, as are most viruses, and cause such conditions as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, kuru, scrapie, and the infamous mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
Prions were discovered by the American scientist Stanley Prusiner in the 1980s and have been found to cause spongiform encephalopathies?brain pathology marked by small holes in brain tissue. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Europe was coming out of a tailspin provoked by the raging controversy over mad cow disease, which spread into European stockyards despite assurances from public officials and scientists that there was nothing to worry about. If the idea that cows were getting sick from eating the ground-up remains of their fellow heifers was not sci-fi enough, here was another development straight out of surrealism: corn or strawberries being bred with the genes of fish or pigs. A popular movement erupted in Europe against the introduction of genetic engineering into food. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 One of the most well-known examples of dangerous misfolded aggregated proteins are prions (proteinaceous infectious particles), responsible for mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) and the deadly Creutzfeld-Jacob disease in humans. Prions cause other healthy proteins to also become misfolded. Over time, they cause holes in the brain, severe dysfunction, and death. Prions survive cooking and are believed to be transmittable to humans who eat meat from infected "mad" cows. The disease may incubate undetected for about two to eight years in cows and up to 30 years in humans. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 There is also a question about the gelatin capsule and the risk of "mad cow" disease. While risk appears to be very low, when you are dealing with a disease reported to have 100 percent mortality, it is a major concern.
The d-alpha tocopherol succinate form comes as a dry powder. It is often referred to as "dry E." Most manufacturers use a vegetable-based capsule rather than a gelatin capsule, because of the concern about mad cow disease. This form of vitamin E is also the most powerful antioxidant form, and powerfully inhibits the development and growth of cancer. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Besides pus cells and blood, which are now normal in milk produced during machine suckling, the milk is also high in pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, hormones, radioactive iodine, and disease factors such as mad cow prion and bovine leukemia virus. In addition, research cited by Robert Cohen has made the point that there is up to a gallon of extra mucus in the body created as a result of drinking dairy. The mucus problem is associated with the fact that 87 percent of milk protein is casein, the main ingredient of Elmer's Glue. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 Prions are most familiar to the public as the cause of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease.
Energetic Terrain 5
Energetic Terrain 5 is associated bioenergetically with the skin and lungs and links to the energetic template of a btoad spectrum of viruses, including the many strains of human papilloma virus and the Bunyavirus family, particularly herpes-related and wart-related viruses.
Energetic Terrain 6
The nose, throat, lungs, and bronchi are all host sites bioenergetically for Energetic Terrain 6. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Of course, the contamination of today's domesticated animal stocks with mad cow disease and other maladies has eliminated the option of eating animal brain and nervous tissue as sources of DHA. But wild game, organic beef, and grass-and pasture-fed animals have meats with more omega-3 fat than other meats available today. Many vegetarians supplement DHA produced from microalgae.
The FDA recently approved a commercially available omega-3 fatty acid supplement (Lovaza, Reliant Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) at doses of 2,000 to 4,000 milligrams per day for treatment of high blood triglyceride levels. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 Organic, grass-fed meat is also less likely to carry mad cow disease.) Eat the leanest cuts possible. Skinless chicken and turkey are better sources of protein as they contain little saturated fat.
Eliminate trans-fatty acids from your diet. Fried foods, especially French fries, fried chicken, and doughnuts, are almost always soaked in these toxic fats. Food manufacturers have to tell you, on their labeling, how much of these fats their products contain, but you should know that a product that contains less than half a gram (0. |
| Organic, grass-fed meat is also less likely to carry mad cow disease.) Eat the leanest cuts possible. Skinless chicken and turkey are better sources of protein as they contain little saturated fat.
Eliminate trans-fatty acids from your diet. Fried foods, especially French fries, fried chicken, and doughnuts, are almost always soaked in these toxic fats. Food manufacturers have to tell you, on their labeling, how much of these fats their products contain, but you should know that a product that contains less than half a gram (0. |
David Steinman
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 On the darker side of the subject, humans are increasingly susceptible to animal diseases, among them mad cow and avian flu."
If that's the case, maybe we should not be eating fish with cancers, sexual abnormalities, and reproductive difficulties. Could these tumors and scars resulting from the chemicals of global warming be passed on to us?
Some of the most basic chemicals of global warming are the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, which are produced by the incomplete combustion in the burning of fossil fuel, particularly coal and petroleum. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Between 1990 and March 2002 nearly ninety house cats have died of the feline form of mad cow disease, which is called feline spongiform encephalopathy (FSE). The first cat identified as having FSE was a Siamese cat in the United Kingdom named Max who died in 1990. Some veterinarians suspect that many more cats have died since then, but these deaths have not been recorded because owners either do not have autopsies performed on their cats' brains or the cats wandered off to die alone. Autopsies are the only way to determine if a cat died from FSE. |
Philip Yam
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 TSE-related issues. Thrust in front of reporters, she had to explain why the USDA had moved in to "depopulate" two flocks of sheep in Vermont in March 2001, which were imported from Belgium and may have been exposed to contaminated feed. To those who found the action intrusive, she became "Dr. Deathwiler" and a target for frustration and anger.
She seems to take it all in stride. "I can remember one day in particular when everything I picked up had foul language," Detwiler recalled. "That's part of the job." With a chuckle, she paraphrased Nietzsche: "What won't hurt you makes you stronger. |
Ann N. Martin
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| BSE already existed and that it manifests itself as a "downer cow" disease rather than as "mad cow" disease as found in the United Kingdom.
When Dr. Marsh undertook these experiments in 1985, the prion theory was just that—a theory. Scientists had first identified prions in the 1970s, however, it was not until about 1987 that prions were connected to BSE or any of the TSE diseases. The British government, as well as all Tenderers internationally, assumed that rendering destroys this disease.
Who Disposed of the Diseased Animals?
Seven thousand mink died at this ranch in Wisconsin. |
| Experts studying the BSE epidemic surmised that up until the early 1980s the renderers in the United Kingdom used flammable solvents to dissolve fats and the solvents may have deactivated the agent that causes mad cow disease and scrapie. When the use of these solvents was discontinued this may have allowed the scrapie agent to remain viable. It was shortly after Tenderers stopped using these solvents that the first cases of BSE began to appear in cattle in the United Kingdom. |
| Human Form of mad cow Disease
When people began eating cattle infected with BSE, the disease then jumped species to humans. The human form of BSE is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and is always fatal. Although the British government assured consumers that eating beef was safe, in 1995 three people died from what is described as the new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. This is called "new varianr" because the age of the people dying includes teens and young adults in their twenties and early thirties. |
David Steinman
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| Jack Graves, chief cultural officer for Burgerville, told the New York Times the chain was looking for a safe source of beef after the mad cow scare in 2003, and held back sales to give Oregon Country Beef time to meet Burgerville's demand of 35,000 pounds a week. (Visit Burgerville at www.burgerville.com or any of its tmrty-nine locations in southern Washington and Oregon. Visit Oregon Country Beef at www.oregoncountrybeef.com. |
Ann N. Martin
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| In addition, the United Kingdom exported twenty tons of suspect meal and bone meal to the United States in 1989 but no cases of mad cow disease have been reported or detected in the United States. Dr. Best believes that perhaps cattle in the United States may display a different strain of BSE. In Dr. Best's 1999 paper on BSE, he asserts, "If this is the case, then a BSE epidemic in the U.S. might not take the form of 'mad' cows staggering around with spongy holes in their brains, but rather 'downer' cows that simply collapse and die. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 SEE mad cow Disease, and Kreutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
•PHLEBITIS Inflammation ofthe veins, esp. in the legs; from lower abdomen operations, birthing, injury infections, toe fungus infections; thrombophlebitis, blood clot breakage from a vein wall, sometimes from contraceptives; Milroy's disease, poolingof lymph in the legs with swelling (take Vitamin E); ulcers (take 1600-800-400 units ofVitamin E, and externally); blood clots (1200-1600 units Vitam in E). Eat a Frucerean diet with ample fruit and vegetable j uices. Exercise.
Take Vitamins B-Complex, B3 (anti-clotting); B5; 1000-5000-25,000 mg. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And we're living in that age where just a couple years back, they found mad cow in Washington beef, and that came from these animals eating other animals.
Mike: Yes, it was verified in a Texas cow.
Kevala: I didn't know; I was unaware of that.
Mike: That was the second case.
Kevala: But here's the thing. Talk to Dr. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 However, bovine-brain PS is not sold in the United States, because of the fear that it could be contaminated with the organism that causes "mad cow" disease. A PS product manufactured from soybean lecithin is available in this country, but the chemical structure differs from that of bovine-brain PS. Preliminary (unpublished) research using the soy product has failed to demonstrate any benefit in a group of elderly individuals with mild impairment of memory.18 Consequently, we cannot recommend soy-derived PS as a treatment for dementia at this time. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 The group of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), which includes mad cow, scrapie, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob, is believed to be caused by a rogue protein called a prion (pronounced PREE-on). They are not living organisms per se, not like bacteria, or even viruses (which are, arguably, mere bundles of RNA with a mission). Prions are just proteins that are "folded" differently. They appear to have the odd characteristic of entering the bodies of animals and getting other proteins to fold the way they do: from alpha helical structures relaxed into looser beta sheets. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Mike: People don't realize the mad cow disease prions cannot be killed by cooking, so if you pasteurize milk, it doesn't matter.
Kevala: That's a whole other issue, isn't it?
Mike: Yes, now, I don't want to focus on the horrors of food too long…
Kevala: Food fear!
Mike: But for those reading, you have a website where you talk about some of these raw foods. Can you give out that website?
Kevala: It's www.raw4real.net. That's raw food for real people, also raw food for authenticity or, you know, a more potent reality.
Mike: Okay, so let's talk about that, a more potent reality. |
Carlo Petrini
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 When they reach the end of their "careers," they are fattened up as quickly as possible—in America through hormones, in Europe until recently with the animal flour that caused mad cow disease—and then sent to the abattoir. Since, owing to the life they have led, their meat is not particularly good, they are mainly used for hamburgers or other industrial products.3 But they do have one advantage, at first sight: they produce almost twice as much milk per day as "normal" cows.
The Aubrac farmers could hardly believe it when they were shown those production figures. |
James Howard Kunstler
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| Factory farming of animals has been behind the frightening and mystifying mad cow problem. The effort to economically hyperrationalize meat production on a gigantic scale led to the use of slaughterhouse waste in cattle feed as a protein booster. The material used included the brains and spinal cords of cattle, sheep, and pigs, turning livestock, in effect, into cannibals —and they are not even supposed to be carnivores. |
| There are four basic categories of diseases that pose different kinds of threat to the American public: (1) the new diseases, including AIDS, SARS, bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow disease"), and "designer" bugs developed in labs; (2) the old standard diseases with developed immunity to antimicrobial drugs; (3) invading vector-borne exotics moving into new territory, such as dengue fever, malaria, West Nile virus, and Lyme disease; and (4) viral epidemic influenzas.9 Some diseases apply in more than one category. |
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