Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| On the other hand, if the test is useful -- that is, if it is accurate enough to be able to declare a cow free of mad cow disease -- then why is it called inconclusive when a cow tests positive?
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. |
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. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 There has been a second reported case of mad cow disease in Canada. 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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| 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. |
| 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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| 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. |
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? |
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. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Detecting and Reporting mad cow disease in the United States
Given the situation in Germany, the question begs to be asked: Are the United States and Canada doing an adequate job in insure that BSE is not in these countries? In my opinion, no!
Both countries are still using the old detection method of sending the brains of suspect cattle to veterinary labs. (The main lab, the National Veterinary Services Laboratories, is located in Ames, Iowa.) According to Arthur Davis, Chief of the Pathobiology Laboratory, "Minimum time after collection of the specimen for results would be 8 days. |
| 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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Ann N. Martin
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| 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. |
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. |
Ann N. Martin
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| There are many theories that exist on the causation of mad cow disease. The consensus among scientists is that the cattle had eaten feed contaminated with BSE. Apparently rendered material used to make cattle feed included the remains of sheep infected with scrapie (the sheep form of BSE). Although this rendered material had been fed to cattle for many years, BSE in cattle was virtually an unheard of disease until the mid-1980s. If this was the case, why was there a major breakout of BSE in the United Kingdom?
One plausible reason is that U.K. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Would not our modern litany of high-tech occupational and environmental illnesses be as unfathomable to previous generations as retroviral infection or mad cow disease?
If novel agents and modern conditions only recently began to exert their adverse effects and if, furthermore, these effects are so subtle that only current medical science is sufficiently sophisticated to allow their diagnosis, then an even more explicit question needs to be asked: Doesn't the very recognition that such problems exist at all demand prerequisites that could not have been met in early times? |
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. |
Bill Sardi
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 Broxmeyer implicates yet another bacterium in the TB-family,
Paratuberculosis bovis, as the primary culprit in meat that is linked with mad cow disease. Broxmeyer provides a list of authoritative reports on the link between bacteria and disease at http://www.medamericaresearch.org/
Reports are streaming in from across the globe of linkage between tuberculosis infection and cancer. Here are some of them:
¦ It is interesting to note that while 75-90% of people who develop lung cancer are smokers, a smaller proportion of smokers (25-33%) develop lung cancer. |
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. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Three of the whistleblowers, who also spoke out on such controversial topics as mad cow disease, were ultimately fired on July 14,2004.224
Canadian GM food approvals are assumption-based
According to crop physiologist E. Ann Clark, "People who assume that there is actual testing, and more specifically, actual testing involving actual grain from transgenic crops, will be amazed to learn that risk assessment of GM crops is largely heuristic or assumptions-based, as is disturbingly clear from the summary statements that accompany Health Canada's assessment of GM submissions. |
| 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. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| MAD COW DISEASE
"Mad cow disease" is the common name of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), a transmissible, slowly progressive, degenerative, fatal disease affecting the central nervous system of adult cattle. The transmissible agent in BSE is a modified form of a normal cell surface component known as a prion protein. Unlike infectious organisms, prions are resistant to common treatments, such as heat and digestive secretions. Eating the meat of an animal with BSE may lead to a disease similar to BSE in humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or vCJD. |
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. |
Hyla Cass
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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. |
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. |
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