the cheese, ice cream, and pizza Americans will eat this summer

July 11, 2008

This is Absolutely Disgusting

Today's article contains excerpts from a story which appeared in yesterday's Modesto Bee newspaper.

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Slaughter begins in Calif dairy herd exposed to TB

By TRACIE CONE , Associated Press Writer

July 09, 2008

FRESNO, Calif. —

"More than 4,800 dairy cows at risk of carrying tuberculosis are being slaughtered this week in central California, where nearly 16,000 cattle in the country's largest milk-producing

region have been quarantined, federal officials said."

"Federal and state agriculture officials were still tightlipped about the identities and locations of the three dairies where cows tested positive for the disease, which can be transmitted

to humans and other mammals through the air or through drinking unpasteurized milk from an infected cow."

"The owner of one dairy has accepted a USDA buyout of up to $3,000 a head, and his cows are headed for the slaughterhouses.

The two other dairies are weighing whether to operate under strict quarantines, which can last for years."

"One of the affected dairies milks more than 10,000 cows and sells semen and embryos from high-production cows and bulls internationally."

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In FOOD FOR THOUGHT (page 35 of my new book) the nagture of today's California "Happy Cow" lie is considered by two of the world's great philosophers.

"Often animals are taken to market and sold for food when they are so diseased that their owners fear to keep them any longer...Shut away from the light and pure air, breathing

the atmosphere of filthy stables, perhaps fattening on decaying food, the entire body soon becomes contaminated with foul matter."

- Ellen G. White

"The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men."

- Emile Zola

Milk from tubeculosis-infected California cows has been used to produce the cheese, ice cream, and pizza Americans will eat this summer.

Robert Cohen

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050805064340.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-03-08-got-milk_x.htm

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