Originally published July 21 2005
Expert says government protection from mad cow is a "joke"
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
John Stauber, in a column for the Center for Media and Democracy, says the government's firewall feed ban to protect consumers from mad cow disease is a joke, and is attempting to bury the facts of the case, such as the state in which the second BSE-infected bovine was found.
That's when Mike Johanns, the United States Secretary of Agriculture held a news conference.
Even now the USDA is keeping secret which state the cow was from, but Texas has long been mentioned in media articles.
The initially-botched finding of a second mad cow in the United States emphasizes the failure of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration to protect Americans from the deadly dementia called mad cow disease, the subject of my 1997 book with Sheldon Rampton, Mad Cow USA.
The so-called 'firewall feed ban' to prevent cattle from contracting the disease in the United States is a joke, and more like pouring gasoline on a fire.
Hundreds of millions of pounds of cattle blood, cattle fat, and the meat, blood, fat and bone meal from pigs and chickens are legally fed to cattle each year on US farms and ranches and feedlots.
These are practices that can spread mad cow disease and are banned in countries like England and Japan where there is a real firewall feed ban.
Britain has announced two cases of human man cow disease spread through blood transfusions, and the US is risking the loss of its own blood supply by not taking the measures Britain and other countries have taken to prevent the disease.
We must have a total ban on feeding any animal protein to livestock, coupled with a mad cow testing program that tests all animals before consumption.
Unfortunately, the US Department of Agriculture is continuing to lie and deny about mad cow risks in the United States, while allowing the powerful livestock and animal feed lobby to continue turning their bloody slaughter house waste into supplemental feed for cattle.
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