Ann N. Martin
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 Moser says the test has found cases of mad cow disease in healthy cattle who would otherwise have entered the human food chain.
Prionics began marketing their rapid test detection to labs in Germany. Private labs performed the Prionics test on a small number of cattle and found BSE in German cows for the first time. "It snowballed from there," Jeffery Nelson reported in his article, "USDA Mad Cow Strategy," for Veg Source. "Germany did more rapid testing and found it had a big problem. |
Bottom Line Health
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| The current fear is reminiscent of the way many people blew out of proportion the risk for contracting anthrax, West Nile virus, SARS and mad cow disease.
I warn my patients that too much worry can lead to overeating, cigarette smoking and drinking too much alcohol. It also can increase levels of circulating stress hormones in the blood, which places more demand on the heart and appears to contribute to heart disease and stroke. But these very real diseases seem abstract when compared to the scary-looking chickens we regularly see on TV.
Our own brains make us easy prey to such distortions. |
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. |
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. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 This is significant because I can assure you that if there have been two reported cases of mad cow disease, that means that there are thousands and thousands of cows that have mad cow disease that have not been reported. I believe that cows in America have mad cow disease and are not being reported. The information is being suppressed and hidden from you.
If you are eating regular conventional beef, you are an absolute insane crazy person because I believe you are eating meat that is highly diseased. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 The mad cow disease transmission is not as clear. The spring 2004 edition of Friends of the Earth cites several autopsy studies that suggest that 3-13 percent of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's actually have Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) (Mad Cow Disease). Although it is most powerfully transmitted via brain and neuron systems, research in Friends of the Earth suggests that CJD can be transmitted by a cow consuming less than one gram of diseased tissue from any part of a cow. |
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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Don't worry about that mad cow disease from a Texas cow (that reluctantly took the USDA seven months and three rounds of testing to finally admit), because the beef industry has executives in key positions at the USDA, and they're out to protect your health, too.
Don't worry about all the children being drugged up with antidepressant drugs -- the very same drugs that have been banned from use in children in the U.K. The kids need those drugs. Their brain chemistry needs a fixin'.
Come to think of it, don't worry about anything. |
Mike Adams
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 Similar to the way in which these two agencies also refuse to test all cows for mad cow disease.) And yet, it is well known that BGH increases inflammation of the udder of cows, which can lead to an increase in the amount of pus in dairy milk (see below for more on pus).
Here's the definition of BGH from Food Additives:
BOVINE SOMATOTROPIN (BST) • Bow'ne growth hormone (BGH) is a natural protein produced by the pituitary gland of all cattle. It is a protein hormone and is not structurally or functionally related to steroid hormones. |
| The high concentration of nerve and brain tissue in ruminant feed is thought to greatly increase the risk of transmission of mad cow disease. In the 1990s, the U.S., along with most other beef-producing nations, introduced a ban on ruminant feed, but Krull points out the problem of regulation remains. "Currently, there is no way to prevent small farmers from making and using ruminant feed" said Krull. http://www. sciencedaily. com/releases/2004/01/040115074059. |
| Spokesmen for the rendering industry asserted that the link between mad cow disease and human illness was "totally unsupported by any scientific evidence." They said that a ban on feeding dead cattle to cattle would be "unfeasible, impractical, and unenforceable." The National Cattlemen's Beef Association opposed a total ban on animal proteins, suggesting instead that feed restrictions should be limited to certain organs known to transmit mad cow: brains, spinal cords, eyeballs. |
| To read more about Howard Lyman and what has happened since the discovery of mad cow disease in the U.S., read my own analysis at: http://www.newstarget.com/000850.html
In response to Oprah's comments about beef on the public airwaves, the beef industry went into full-scale assault:
Prices for cattle futures were said to have fallen by more than 10 percent in the moments following the broadcast and to have taken weeks to recover. One Texas cattleman told a reporter that his company lost $7 million as a result of the show and that "We're taking the Israeli action on this thing... |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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| In addition, we have the possibility of mad cow disease as well as high amounts of pesticides, herbicides, hormones, and antibiotics in the milk. Chemical residues are absorbed into the cow's tissues and even radioactive fallout may be found in the milk. For example, three months after the Chernobyl disaster there was a 900 percent increase in perinatal mortality in the Boston area. This was traced to the fallout of radioactive I13i from Chernobyl that the cows (organic cows included) were eating from the grass and concentrating in their milk. |
| There is now the possibility of mad cow disease (which arises through giving vegetarian animals infected meat in their diet!). Twenty-thousand cases of e-coli from meat occur each year (250-500 are fatal). Cam-phlobacter and salmonella bacteria are on the increase. Salmonella infections can be found in 30-70 percent of chickens. Camphlobacter infection is found in 80 percent of chickens and 90 percent of turkeys; this bacteria causes intestinal infections similar to salmonella. In one study of monkeys fed from leukemic cows, 100 percent of the monkeys developed leukemia after one year. |
| Although today he would be against the use of dairy because of the possibility of mad cow disease, previously he allowed minimal use of cultured raw dairy products from healthy, organic cows. He suggests one to two tablespoons of cold pressed oils, plus some supplemental foods such as kelp, yeast, a little uncooked honey, and low-potency organic minerals and supplements. |
| Mad Cow Disease. Throughout the U.S. there are also significant reports of "mad" elk, deer, and fish. Friends of the Earth suggests there may be at least 120,000 cases of CJD unreported in the U.S.
Cow's milk can serve as a vector for other disease. A study in Denmark found that there was a correlation between an increased incidence of leukemia in cows and of the children who drank their milk. Another study showed that 100 percent of the chimpanzees that drank milk from leukemic cows for one year got leukemia. |
| Although in 1997 the FDA established some controls, there are significant loopholes such as farmers being allowed to feed cow's blood to cattle, even though research shows the blood can transmit the prions of mad cow disease, and factory farms are still allowed to feed pigs and poultry the remains of slaughtered cattle and the remains of these slaughtered, cattle-fed animals can be fed back to cattle. The Center for Disease Control refuses to make CJD a reportable disease. At least one U.S. company that wants to test all its cows has not been allowed to by the U.S. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 And the depressed price of cattle culled for beef due to the discovery of mad cow disease, had hit just before Christmas. Monsanto's "technical assistance" group had no word on how dairy farmers should cope with an up to 5% reduction in milk output.
Viral Contamination
Reporters began reading between the lines of the reassuring Monsanto statements. DairyLine interviewed Monsanto representative Janice Armstrong about an alleged batch of rbST that had become "contaminated. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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 European attitudes became clearer to us as we learned about mad cow disease (BSE), acquired in cows by their eating what had for years been common: feed that included ground-up animal parts. mad cow disease, which can be fatal, is passed on to humans who eat meat from infected cows. Such feeding to cows was banned in the U.S. and Britain in the early 1990s, but hundreds of U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The real story is just as I predicted -- we have mad cow disease in this country, and I think we just have the tip of the iceberg here. Wait until the truth really comes out about this -- then you're going to see some mad cow madness hitting the fan in a very big way. And by that time, nobody will be able to tell where all the parts came from. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 It eliminates most germs, but some salmonella, hepatitis, and mad cow disease still remain. In animals it causes hemorrhage from muscle tears, heart damage, testes tumors, and changes in genes and reproductive cells. Formaldehyde, cancer-causing benzene, and mold toxins form because of irradiation. Irradiation is being done to most of our food supply. This is why you must be eating 100 percent organic food. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 ANTIBIOTICS IN LIVESTOCK
According to a recent report, about 70 percent of the antibiotics used in the United States each year are not used to
Mad Cow Disease
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), known popularly as mad cow disease, is a chronic degenerative disorder affecting the central nervous system of cattle. It is believed that eating meat products from affected animals can cause a disorder in people called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCID). Both BSE and vCID may not cause obvious symptoms for up to twenty years after the original infection and both are always fatal. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 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. |
Mike Adams
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| Thanks to AMR equipment combined with bizarre feed practices like feeding chicken litter to cows - and the reluctance of the USDA to require mandatory testing of cows for mad cow disease - this disease could be in your freezer right now, says Professor Ira Krull from Northeastern University:
"The American public should be concerned, at this moment, there is contaminated beef sitting in grocery stores and personal freezers across the country," says Krull.
From a write-up on Krull's statement published by ScienceDaily. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The USDA, one of the great misguided agencies of modern government, has given us the Food Guide Pyramid that offers us nutritionally worthless advice, heavily influenced by private industry, especially the dairy industry, and now the agency claims to be protecting us from mad cow disease (but really is just protecting the cattle industry).
No surprise there -- a lot of people in high-level positions at the USDA are from the cattle industry. It's similar to the FDA, where top officials are ex-drug company executives. |
| It simply makes good economic sense.
Wouldn't the USDA want to open those markets for U.S. cattle ranchers? Why wouldn't it conduct the testing of all cows to prove that the cows are safe? The answer, again, is because to conduct this testing would reveal how widespread mad cow disease really is in this country. And that's why the USDA has to continue to falsify its own tests, in my view, to make sure that if a cow ever tests positive, they can falsify the second test and make sure it comes back negative. That's why they outlaw independent testing of cows in this country. |
| Here's my opinion of what happened: First, the cow gets mad cow disease, probably from consuming spinal cord tissue and brain parts of other dead cows that are typically fed to cattle as part of the everyday beef operations here in the United States. This was a Texas cow, born and raised somewhere in the United States, it seems, and slaughtered in Texas. Turns out it was a downer cow, which means it couldn't walk. So where do they send this cow? Well, to the pet food slaughterhouse, of course. |
| Now, this whole process took seven months -- seven months to find out that this cow was positive for mad cow disease, during which time the USDA was proclaiming that U.S. herds were completely safe, explaining, essentially, "There's no danger. Our testing procedure is highly accurate, we keep full track of everything and we know where all these cows are," and other such nonsense. All this time, of course, the agency was sitting on a mad cow that still had not been properly tested. |
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