Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The answer, of course, has nothing to do with science but everything to do with food politics and usda efforts to protect the U.S. beef industry. In fact, many of the top people who work at the usda used to be key executives, public relations people or marketing people working for various meat industry groups in the United States. It's no surprise that they would want to protect the industry they are supposed to be regulating. |
| These actions by the usda, by the way, may ultimately lead to the temporary collapse of the U.S. cattle industry. By covering up the truth about mad cow disease and refusing to test all cows for this disease, the usda is sowing the seeds of destruction for the entire industry. |
| But you'll notice that the usda never proclaims a negative result on this initial low-cost screening to be inconclusive -- it's simply called "negative" and it doesn't bother with any other testing. In other words, this testing system is frighteningly unscientific. If the first test is so inaccurate as to be considered inconclusive by the usda, then how does it know that a negative result on the first test is sound?
Perhaps a negative result is also inconclusive and this test is completely useless. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Getting cow parts mixed up
It turns out the usda even had a hard time figuring out where this particular cow came from. Why is that? I’m going to quote a news story here. It says, "The cow's type of breed was mislabeled, possibly because the animal had been heavily soiled with manure and its tissues were mixed with tissues from other cows." Wait a minute, here -- wait a minute!
Is this saying they couldn't even identify the breed of this cow because its tissues were mixed with other tissues? What does that mean? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Nothing in these photos is intended to imply that these processed meat products do not meet FDA or usda regulations. I have no doubt these products meet all minimum government requirements for human consumption. Then again, the usda openly approves the use of chicken poop as cattle feed, so you can't exactly say that usda regulators are really interested in food regulations that most intelligent consumers would agree with. In any case, these photos do not show any evidence whatsoever that Jimmy Dean or Kraft Foods are violating food safety regulations. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's almost as if the usda wants people to believe that mad cow disease is like brain cancer: Some people get it, some people don't -- and we don't know why. But it's nothing like that. Mad cow disease is contagious and it is almost always acquired through exposure to contaminated feed.
That's how humans get mad cow disease -- by eating contaminated nerve tissue in cow meat products like hot dogs, salami, pepperoni and so forth. Infected cow meat then infects humans and causes their brains to literally turn to a grey mush. |
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| And this is supposed to be the highly accurate cattle tracking system used by the usda that keeps the public safe, by the way.
According to this news story, "Parts from the diseased animals and four other cows were supposed to be kept in separate waste barrels, but some of the waste was combined." So basically, all these cows are just mixed and matched. When they have a downer cow, they put it into the grinder, the same as any other downer cow, and then they tell us, "This cow didn't make it into the food supply. Don't worry. You're safe, and your pets are safe. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| By covering up the truth about mad cow disease and refusing to test all cows for this disease, the usda is sowing the seeds of destruction for the entire industry. |
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| 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. |
Mark Sircus
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 Source: USDA: Composition of Foods. usda Handbook No. 8 Series. Washington, D.C., ARS, usda, 1976-1986.
There is no specific information about oral magnesium chloride in liquid form but it is reasonably safe to assume it would be more absorbable than magnesium taurate because liquid minerals are in general more absorbable than tablets.
The taste of the solution is not very good (it has a bitter-saltish flavor) so a little fruit juice (grapefruit, orange, lemon) can be added to the solution. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So, of course, the usda, which has seemingly gone way out of its way to make sure that no one learns the truth about mad cow disease in the United States, ordered its own second test, and gee, what a surprise! The second test came back negative.
We see this happening quite frequently -- the second test being negative. They say, "Well, the first test must have been a false positive," and then my theory is that they find some way to distort the test and falsify the results. Sure enough, the second test comes back negative -- no mad cow disease. |
| Keep in mind, the usda declared this cow to be free of mad cow disease. They said, "Don't worry, this is safe." That makes you wonder -- why didn't they put it into the pet food supply? See, I think they probably did, and I think they're just telling us whatever they want us to hear. I think pets are consuming this all across the country right now. Who knows how many cans of pet food that cow got into with all the mixing and matching? And remember, you can't kill mad cow disease by cooking the food. |
| USDA to confirm that this cow had mad cow disease? Only seven months! Your taxpayer dollars are hard at work...
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? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Now, with the usda backing this fraudulent labeling decision by the Almond Board of California, we have two dominant government agencies (the FDA and usda) who are both in favor of the blatant mislabeling of food products in order to keep consumers ignorant of how their foods are really being processed and degraded. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 For more detailed information on the usda organic standards, visit their Web site at www.ams.usda.gov/nop or call the National Organic Program at (202) 720-3252.
Hypoallergenic or Good for Sensitive Skin: These terms suggest to the consumer that the product is less likely to cause allergic reactions or skin sensitivities. However, there are no standard testing restrictions or regulations for determining whether a product qualifies as meeting this claim. A company can label their product as "hypoallergenic" or "good for sensitive skin" without providing any substantiation for the claim. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 While the usda recommends that Americans get 3 servings a day of vegetables (and that can include dead, cooked or pasteurized vegetables), I'm getting an incredible TEN servings a day (at least!) of RAW, fresh vegetables. And on top of that, I'm getting at least FIVE servings a day of raw, fresh berries and disease-reversing fruits.
Presently, less than half the U.S. population consumes even the bare minimum three servings of vegetables each day (source: usda). And most of that is made of cooked, pasteurized or otherwise destroyed veggies. |
| They are increasingly getting behind plant-based medicines and even suggesting their patients start changing their dietary habits to eat these miraculous healing foods.
The usda is starting to catch up on nutritional science, too
Still skeptical that plant medicines are the future of safe, effective medicine? Even the usda has some intelligent things to say about nutrition these days (I know, don't be so shocked!). |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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| For more detailed information on the usda organic standards, visit their Web site at www.ams.usda.gov/nop or call the National Organic Program at (202) 720-3252.
Hypoallergenic or Good for Sensitive Skin: These terms suggest to the consumer that the product is less likely to cause allergic reactions or skin sensitivities. However, there are no standard testing restrictions or regulations for determining whether a product qualifies as meeting this claim. A company can label their product as "hypoallergenic" or "good for sensitive skin" without providing any substantiation for the claim. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Until then, please read everything from the usda with a grain of (sea) salt. What follows is text published by the USDA:
1. What are phytonutrients and where are they found?
The term "phyto" originated from a Greek word meaning plant. Phytonutrients are certain organic components of plants, and these components are thought to promote human health. Fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts and teas are rich sources of phytonutrients. Unlike the traditional nutrients (protein, fat, vitamins, minerals), phytonutrients are not "essential" for life, so some people prefer the term "phytochemical". |
Michael Pollan
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 At a health clinic in Oakland, California, doctors report seeing overweight children suffering from old-time deficiency diseases such as rickets, long thought to have been consigned to history's dustheap in the developed
*These are usda statistics from FoodReview, Vol. 25, Issue 3, a publication of the Economic Research Service at the usda. world. But when children subsist on fast food rather than fresh fruits and vegetables and drink more soda than milk, the old deficiency diseases return—now even in the obese. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 In a recent editorial for Nutrition Action Health Letter, a publication of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Michael Jacobsen named the major officeholders in the usda and described what each had done for a living before going to work for the Department of Agriculture.4 Every single one had previously been employed by the dairy, meat, or poultry industry. And as recently as October 2000, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine successfully litigated to find out exactly who was compensating the members of the USDA's U.S. Dietary Guidelines Committee. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Broadhurst and her team at the usda have identified new phytochemicals in cinnamon called chalcone polymers that increase glucose metabolism in the cells twenty-fold or more. And with nary a side effect in sight.
USDA researchers tested the effects of forty-nine different herbs, spices, and medicinal plants on blood sugar metabolism and published their results in the prestigious Journal of the American College of Nutrition in 2001. Cinnamon was the star of the show. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 You can also download the USDA's free nutrient database software (go to www.ars.usda.gov/ ba/bhnrc/ndl and hit Download Software) to get in-depth information about the nutrients and vitamins present in the food you eat. The site gives you a detailed breakdown of nearly seven thousand common foods. Plug in an item, from a cup of arugula to a turkey sandwich, and the program gives you an analysis of more than thirty nutrients. It also covers many kinds of processed and fast foods in greater detail than you'll find on most packages or menus. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The process included a public comment period, managed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The usda considered all comments before making the pasteurization rule final.
Since 2004, there has been extensive discussion, consultation with leading food safety experts, and consensus building resulting in this almond industry pasteurization program to meet its responsibility to consumers to provide the safest, healthiest product possible. The ABC understands consumers choose almonds for taste as well as for health reasons. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 That means the RDA recommendations don't apply to women, children, the elderly, small people, or sedentary folks. The usda doesn't have a clue how much those people need. In fact, if those people followed the usda recommendations, it wouldn't be possible to eat enough food to get all the vitamins it says are needed without getting fat, unless they exercised quite a bit. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Now, with the usda backing this fraudulent labeling decision by the Almond Board of California, we have two dominant government agencies (the FDA and usda) who are both in favor of the blatant mislabeling of food products in order to keep consumers ignorant of how their foods are really being processed and degraded. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As the Organic Consumers Association explains:
In a mind-twisting manipulation of logic, the new acting Secretary of Agriculture, Chuck Connors, a notorious cheerleader for biotech and corporate agribusiness, announced last week that this issue, regarding Aurora's violation of the usda National Organic Standards, falls outside the scope of the usda National Organic Standards.
"We believe that there are tens of thousands of consumers across the United States who have been directly impacted by Aurora's practices," said Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association. |
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