Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I believe that people who eat red meat today are potentially exposing themselves to mad cow disease. America's herds are not entirely safe and mandatory testing of all cows is not being done. In fact, mandatory testing is not even being supported by the USDA.
Trust us, we're the government
The official position of the USDA is that we should all just have faith in the idea that U.S. cows have no such disease -- but we shouldn't actually conduct tests to find out whether that faith is misplaced. |
| They call it inconclusive because they don't want to use the word "positive" anywhere near mad cow disease.
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? |
| USDA, which has threatened to sue them for conducting these safety tests. Astounding, but true. That's how badly the USDA wants to keep this issue in the dark, it seems. Information is dangerous when sales of beef are at risk.
One thing you can count on is that you -- consumers in the United States -- will continue to be kept in the dark until the number of people infected and dying from mad cow disease is too large to cover up. These actions by the USDA, by the way, may ultimately lead to the temporary collapse of the U.S. cattle industry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So it decided to order a third test of this cow, and the third test was conducted -- guess where? England. Why? Because they probably couldn't trust the USDA testers in the United States. They knew that the test would be falsified again if it were tested in the United States, so they had to send it out of the country. (That's how corrupt operations are here in the U.S.) The England test, no surprise, came back positive.
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. |
| 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. |
| All this time, of course, the agency was sitting on a mad cow that still had not been properly tested.
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! |
| Taiwan, of course, banned the importation of mad cow disease following the first case of the disease in this country, and then when they heard about this one, they banned it again, and that drives the U.S. beef industry nuts. The Agriculture Department says they're talking with Taiwan authorities "to assure them of the safety of U.S. beef and that our interlocking safeguards did work as they should have worked to protect human and animal health." Oh my -- we have a system that's ironclad around here! Apparently, we know exactly where the cows are... |
| A system in which the USDA actually attacks cattle ranchers and beef companies that want to conduct their own mad cow testing and where the USDA (in my opinion) falsifies these test results or gets them wrong so frequently that the Inspector General has to come along and send the results out to another country to get accurate lab results? This is our system of "interlocking safeguards" in this country? What a whitewash! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 European countries test ALL their cows for mad cow disease. But USDA officials in this country believe we should only test something like one cow out of a million, and any time that test comes back positive, do you know what they do? They run a second test, then a third test, then a fourth test until they get the result they want: Negative. I'm not making this up. This is the official unwritten USDA policy on mad cow disease. |
David Wolfe
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 In the book, Mad Cowboy, former cattle rancher, Howard Lyman details that mad cow disease stems from the feeding concoctions of dead cows and other animals in the factory farms to the living cows. When those living cows are slaughtered and eaten, they pass the mad cow disease on to humans.
When one eats the flesh of tortured animals, or the milk of dairy cows, or eggs from factory chickens, one also ingests the fear, the pain, the exhaustion and the sorrow of those beings. These energies manifest within the consumer in the form of negative attitudes, depression and illness. |
Philip Yam
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 In that October 2001 article, Venters argued that variant CJD does not stem from mad cow disease at all. Instead, it was the usual sporadic form of CJD, bursting into public consciousness because of improved surveillance. He said that vCJD cases resemble Hans Creutzfeldt's one and only case, Bertha Elschker, from nearly a century ago; that certain molecular tests were flawed; and that the shape of the vCJD epidemic, which should include older people, does not correspond to the BSE curve. |
| Italy
Japanese health minister Chikara Sakaguchi, left, and agriculture minister Tsu-tomu Takebe take a page from John Gummer's book (see page 123) and show their faith in the safety of beef in October 2001, shortly after Japan discovered its first mad cow. Several other BSE cases soon turned up. {Toshiyuki Aizawa / Reuters.)
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BSE cases in the U.K. peaked in 1992. |
| Appearing when mad cow furor in the U.K. was reaching its peak, it created a local storm. Marsh became the source of much antipathy from the S3-billion-a-year rendering industry, which processes some 25 million tons of animal material each year. Rendering officials pleaded for Marsh to change his stance—the connection between cows and TME wasn't a slam dunk, because the rancher also fed organs from other animals rejected by feed companies. Marsh stood firm, even after the officials went to the dean of Marsh's college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| And that's when I realized that my risk of catching the human form of mad cow disease from these instruments was not zero.
You might wonder: How could this be? Are the instruments not sterilized? The answer is yes —and no. Many surgical and dental tools are steam-heated for 15 to 30 minutes at some 121?C (250?F). These scorching temperatures are more than a match for the bacterium that causes tuberculosis and the viruses that cause AIDS and hepatitis. In fact, you name it, and time and temperature in the autoclave will take care of it. |
| Yet such extreme conditions cannot completely destroy the "mad cow" agent that, over time, peppers the brain with microscopic holes, causing clumsiness, dementia, and eventually death. Even formaldehyde, which can kill germs as well as human cells, does nothing to this microscopic killer.
Because this powerful agent resists standard sterilization, it can be spread from person to person through medical and, in principle, dental procedures. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It could be that this particular cow in Alabama acquired the disease somewhere else and then was sold to the Alabama ranch -- but that only worsens the problem because that widens the scope of possible contamination. If this cow came from somewhere else, then what about the other cows from that location? And how many cows were sent out to various ranches all across the country from that previous location?
We never see any additional testing being done on the cows that share the same food as an infected cow. |
David Steinman
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 Since the mad cow scare in 2003, production has more than doubled, with a 73 percent increase over the past year."
Oregon Country Beef made a key move in 2004 when it made a deal with Burgerville, a Vancouver, Washington, chain that is dedicated to locally produced and sustainable foods, to produce all the beef for their hamburgers.
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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| People are going to die, and the beef industry is going to be in shambles. They're going to lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
Why? Because they refuse to tell the truth! They refuse to enact safety standards that other countries now have as routine! They refuse to test all the cows. The USDA just doesn't want to tell people anything, it seems. It didn't want to tell them where the cow came from. There's all this secrecy. You know, if this is supposed to be an open system of interlocking safeguards, why doesn't the USDA stand up and tell us the truth? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Even though the results of this second test have been announced, there is a whole lot of spin from the USDA on trying to suppress the severity of this news -- so let me translate it into plain English for you.
First, this positive result is from the second test conducted on this particular cow in Alabama. The first test also produced a positive result, but it was a less precise test -- one that's faster and less expensive to conduct. When the first test produced a positive result, the USDA declared it to be "inconclusive" -- that's USDA doublespeak for the word "positive. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's because the Bush Administration has made it illegal for beef ranchers to test their own cows for mad cow disease. The USDA actually sued one rancher that tried to conduct safety testing in order to comfort his overseas buyers of U.S. beef. U.S. authorities said, nope, we can't have any more safety testing in this country unless the feds conduct it -- in which case the government can cover up all the positive mad cow detection results and pretend that U.S. beef is perfectly safe for mass consumption.
Countries like Japan have banned U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Food safety (which covers food recalls, salmonella, mad cow, the USDA, etc.)
Diabetes prevention and natural treatments
Cancer prevention and natural treatments
Prenatal nutrition, infant nutrition and childrens' nutrition
Modern health care system, health insurance and health care reform
The FDA and FDA reform
Dangerous prescription drugs, drug warnings, drug fatalities, advertising, etc.
Junk food marketing, sodas, marketing to children, etc. |
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. |
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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There's also mad cow disease, which can easily pass to humans through beef products, and which cannot be killed by cooking the meat. And don't forget our modern corporate-controlled agricultural practices which eliminate biodiversity and base the future of humanity on a few patented strains of food-producing crops that are practically begging to be wiped out by blight or some other crop disease.
Many natural disasters are ultimately caused by human behavior
Then we turn to the forces of nature. Consider these: The rising intensity of hurricanes (Katrina, anyone? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They are not going to be spreading mad cow disease and so on. We, right now in the United States, have an excess of milk being produced by family-scale dairy farmers who are not yet organic. It would be very simple to help those who want to make the transition do so if we were to force the government to give us a fair share of our subsidies to help these farmers do that.
Lax standards of corporate manufacturers and retailers affect both organic milk and soymilk products
Mike: Now, you mentioned that pasture-fed cows are healthier cows. |
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. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Alarmed by the outbreak of mad cow's disease, the Italian authorities ordered the seizure of the vaccine in January 1997 for fear it could cause the human version of the disease. By injecting such cocktails of foreign and destructive substances directly into the bloodstream, the human body stands little or no chance of neutralizing the poisons.
Under normal circumstances, all ingested foods, beverages, etc. have to pass through the mucus membranes, the intestinal walls, or the liver before they are permitted into such important areas as the blood, the heart, or the brain. |
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