MAD COW USA: THE NIGHTMARE IS HERE

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MAD COW USA: THE NIGHTMARE IS HERE

 

http://www.prwatch.org/books/madcow.html

 

Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber's 1997 book Mad Cow USA warned

that unless the US adopted the same strict regulations implemented

in Britain, including a ban on feeding rendered slaughterhouse

waste as animal feed, mad cow disease would eventually emerge in

the US.

 

The US failed to act and late Tuesday the Secretary of

Agriculture Ann Veneman announced that the first US case of mad cow

disease has appeared in a " downer cow " in the state of Washington.

 

Within minutes of USDA's news conference John Stauber was

interviewed live on CNN and interviewed in <A HREF= " The New York

Times and other media refuting the reassuring spin of the USDA.

Center for Consumer Freedom, a tobacco, booze and food industry

front group, wasted no time attacking Stauber on behalf of its

corporate funders such as Excel/Cargill, National Steak & Poultry,

Outback Steak House, Tyson Foods, Wendy's, Whitecastle and others.

 

The first case of mad cow disease in North America was found in

Canada in May, 2003. You can read an interview Stauber gave this

August warning that the disease was likely also in the US.

 

In related news, Nature reports what might be the first case of human

mad cow disease spread by blood transfusion. In laboratory

experiments blood plasma can spread mad cow-typed diseases, but the

US government allows calves to be fed milk formula containing

cattle blood plasma as a source of protein.

 

SOURCE: Various, December 24, 2003

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