Last Little Bit Alternative Explanation for Mad Cow Disease

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About Mark Purdey

 

As an organic farmer, Mark Purdey resisted the order to spray his cattle with

organophosphates for warble fly and went to court for a judicial review; he

won and was exempted from using the spray. No cows born in his herd developed

BSE (mad cow disease). He has contributed numerous articles on the subject of

BSE to scientific journals. He farms in Somerset, UK.

 

This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing

Arts, the quarterly magazine of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Spring 2002

 

Addendum (Letter to the Weston A. Price Foundation from Mark Purdey, which

appeared in the Summer 2002 edition of Wise Traditions):

 

MAD DEER

 

It has been such an impressionable experience here in Australia studying a

local variant of wasting disease. Whilst the neurological disease problem lies

in a manganese induced mutation, via a combination of genetical susceptibility

and excessive manganese, plus low magnesium, there are some major, major

inadequacies with the modern day Aboriginal diet. It's the worst I have seen, in

fact: Coca-Cola, white bread, sugar, sugar, and sugar! I kept on remembering

Weston A Price's reports on the Aboriginal people with their beautiful teeth.

Some kids in their twenties have lost all their teeth these days.

 

I did find out a very important piece of information which explains the cause

of chronic wasting disease in deer. The hunters in Wisconsin and Colorado

have been putting down a dual purpose mineral block designed to addict the deer

to the hunters' shooting territory as well as supplying manganese for making

the antlers grow big. They have been using this stuff exactly where chronic

wasting disease has burst out.

 

Mark Purdey

Somerset, UK