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The Many Names Of Mad Cow

ARC | 29.04.2005 19:43 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Health

The US government continues to generate spongiform encephalopathy (Mad Cow etc) in cows, pigs, chickens, fishes etc. and to label deaths by other names

The US government continues to generate spongiform encephalopathy (Mad Cow etc) in cows, pigs, chickens, fishes etc.

THE MANY NAMES OF MAD COW

When doctors give a cause of death for Mad Cow
or Mad Deer, Mad Fish, Mad Pig, Mad Chicken, Mad Lamb,
Mad Owl, Mad Pig in the United States
they give it many names..
.. encephalitis
.. leukemia
.. West Nile Virus
.. meningitis
.. brain tumor
.. food poisoning
.. Jakob Creutzfeldt Disease

Only withheld.. its real names:
bovine spongiform encephalopathy
cervine spongiform encephalopathy
porcine spongiform encephalopathy
avian spongiform encephalopathy
piscean spongiform encephalopathy
etc.
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In the US, cattle parts are being fed to chickens.
Pigs are not investigated at all.
Bone meal is being given to fish in factory farms
and Meilan at Purdue is opening the door to Mad Human
Disease as he puts human genes in plants.. to be fed
to chickens?
 http://www.madcowboy.com
 http://www.maddeer.org
 http://www.rense.com (type in Mad Cow)
 http://cbc.ca (type in Mad Cow)

WHO IS INVOLVED IN THE COVERUP?
health departments, hospitals, the CDC, USDA, FDA, NIH,
meat cartels, coroners

10,000 LINKS ON THE EMERGING MAD COW STORY

JBO: You mean I'm only paying for chicken but I'm getting beef?
Response to news of pig and cow prions in chickens fed parts
of those animals

Dozens of Mad Cow links

 http://www.rense.com/health/madcowdata.html

Irish Food Safety Authority finds chicken prions from being fed pig or cow prions.  http://www.fsai.ie

ORGANIC CONSUMERS  http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow.htm many
articles
MAD COW COMIN HOME
 http://whyfiles.org/193prion/
KUCINICH ASKS EU TYPE MAD COW TESTING  http://www.kucinich.us

7000 Mad Cow articles.. lately coopted by meat industry.... good
archives  http://www.mad-cow.org


Mad Deer  http://www.maddeer.org cervine spongiform encephalopathy

Howard Lyman's monthly newsletter  http://www.madcowboy.com
 http://www.egroups.com/messages/mad_cowboy

American Jnl of Epidemiology on gelcap Mad Cow lawsuits
 http://www.rense.com/health/gelcaps.htm

Montana Lab Kills Primates in Mad Cow research

 http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthrea...?threadid=61657
USDA: don't ask don't tell (re Mad Cow)  http://www.vegsource.com

MANGANESE BONDS WITH PRIONS TO FORM BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY
 http://www.rense.com/general6/bse.htm

UPI: USDA refused to release Mad Cow records and cannot document
that 20,000 cows were tested stevemitchell@s...
 http://www.upi.com
 http://www.upi.com/print.cfm?StoryI...21-102924-4786r
(Lyman and Oprah Winfrey won a lawsuit against Amarillo cattlemen)
 http://www.maddeer.org  http://www.pcrm.org
Nobel Laureate prion discoverer warns about continuing Mad Cow
 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/25/national/25WARN.html?
Test Cows Now  http://www.testcowsnow.com
Join & Post Articles  http://www.egroups.com/messages/madcow1
Mad Pig PSE Porcine Spongiform Encephalopathy mad scientists
have created Mad Pig in labs  http://www.thepigsite.com
Mad Milk: the book Mad Cow and Milkgate
 http://k0swi.microlnk.com/4SALE/INV...0COW%20DISEASE%
20BOOK.htm
How Mad Cow becomes Mad Milk
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/s...,351415,00.html
 http://www.notmilk.com  http://www.milksucks.com
7000 VEGAN MD'S SAY AVOID ANIMAL PRODUCTS  http://www.pcrm.org
PONIES AND HORSES VICTIMIZED BY MAD COW PROFITEERS
 http://www.rense.com/general6/bsee.htm
BRITISH PHYSICIANS ASKED TO MUZZLE TRUTH ABOUT MAD COW IN BLOOD
SUPPLY
 http://www.rense.com/general5/cjconcerns.htm
MANURE CAN SPREAD MAD COW
 http://www.rense.com/general/mdcwfg.htm  http://www.punch.co.uk
BONE MEAL ON FLOWERS CAN SPREAD MAD COW
The British Horticultural Soc published that several rose fanciers
using bone meal on their blooms contracted BSE, Mad Cow.
MEAT RECALLS A SMALL FRACTION OF THOSE WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN
 http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/recalls/rec_intr.htm
BONE MEAL IN COMMERCIAL PET FOODS CAN CAUSE MAD COW
 http://www.pcrm.org  http://www.vegancats.com
VACCINES CONTAINING MAD COW PRIONS
 http://whyfiles.org/012mad_cow/
COSMETICS.. AVOIDING MAD COW
 http://www.egroups.com/messages/vegan_cosmetics
THE PIG SITE  http://www.thepigsite.com listed research
on labs (such as in Edinburgh) where infected sheep brains are
kept and transmitted by needle and food to captive animals.
BLOOD FED TO CALVES
 http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/GregerBSE.cfm
KIRO on feeding downer cows to other cows
 http://www.kirotv.com/station/2249324/detail.html
pagewanted=print&position=
FDA on blood supply dangers

 http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2001/NEW00768.html
UDDER DENIAL MAD COW IN THE FRIDGE
 http://www.home.earthlink.net/~astrology/udder.htm

COULD ORGANOPHOSPHATES PLAY A ROLE IN MAD COW?
 http://www.rense.com/general7/disea.htm
TOXIC ATKINS DIET  http://groups.msn.com/toxicatkins/1.msnw
TOXINS IN ALL FLESH.. SANE COWS OR MAD PIGS

 http://www.egroups.com/messages/bloodsweatandtears/57

CORRELATION BETWEEN ANIMAL ABUSE AND VIOLENCE

 http://www.egroups.com/messages/teachnonviolence/270

HEALTHIEST DIET, MOST NONVIOLENT, MOST REFORESTING  http://spot.acorn.net/fruitarian

HOW TO MAKE THE CHANGE

 http://www.peta.net vegetarian starter kit

 http://www.meatout.org

 http://www.ivu.org

CBC Reports US Regime Lied About Mad Cow
UPDATE:
The socalled West Nile Virus is Mad Cow, Mad Deer,
and other diseases resulting in spongy brain. The US
pharmaceutical meat media 'health' and govt. cartels have called
these deaths meningitis, encephalitis, leukemia, Jakob Creutzfeld
Disease, food poisoning, and everything but what they are
 http://www.maddeer.org  http://www.madcowboy.com
 http://interactive.zogby.com/fuse/messageview.cfm?catid=24&threadid=4798
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U.S. denies having 2 BSE cases in 1997
Last Updated Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:24:15 EDT
CBC News  http://cbc.ca
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture admits there were problems with the samples taken from two cows in 1997, but insists the animals did not have bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease.


INDEPTH: Mad Cow Disease


Suspected mad cow, from a USDA video.
Asked about a CBC News report showing the samples used for testing did not contain key parts of the animals' brains needed to make an accurate diagnosis, the USDA's Ron DeHaven said, "We had two choices: run the tests with the samples that we had, or not run them at all.

DeHaven is the administrator of the USDA's animal and plant health inspection service.

"If we had something to hide, we could make an argument for not running the samples at all," he said. "In this case, we chose to run the samples with the tissues that we had and subject them to three different tests to compensate for the fact that we may not have the perfect tissues."

For years Canadian cattle producers have been suspicious about U.S. claims that it has only found one cow that has been affected with BSE. That cow, which originated in Canada, was diagnosed with BSE in December 2003 in Washington state.

So far, four Canadian-born animals have tested positive even though for decades animals have been shipped back and forth across the border.

CBC News has uncovered U.S. Department of Agriculture video showing what USDA veterinarians feared might be two cases of mad cow disease in the U.S.


FROM APRIL 12, 2005: Concerns raised about 1997 U.S. mad cow tests

The official tests were negative. But CBC news uncovered documents showing key areas of the cow's brain, in both cases, were never tested.

Retired USDA scientist Dr. Karl Langheinrich says without those tests, American authorities will never be able to rule out mad cow disease. "It means you cannot make a diagnosis, a specific diagnosis," he said.

Rob McNabb of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association says his organization wants the USDA to investigate.

"What we would fully expect is that the USDA address the allegations," he said.


2nd suspected mad cow, from a USDA video.
And NDP international trade critic Peter Julian says Canada should consider retaliating.

"I think we need to close the border immediately to beef imports," he said.

One of the USDA's top officials told CBC News that the U.S. testing program was never designed to catch every single case of mad cow disease. It was simply meant to measure how much disease there is.

After testing thousands of animals the USDA believes if BSE exists, it's at a very low level.

Next year, the U.S. plans a major reduction in its BSE testing program, from a high of 300,000 animals to just 40,000.


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Mad Cow and other SE's (porcine spongiform encephalopathy,
avian spongiform encephalopathy, cervine spongiform
encephalopathy etc. have an incubation of 50 years
said Dr David Heymann of the WHO on the CBC




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Courage of Dr. Doi, American Whistleblower
Concerns raised about 1997 U.S. mad cow tests
Last Updated Apr 13 2005 02:30 PM CDT
CBC News
GENEVA, N.Y. v The United States did not properly analyze two suspected cases of mad cow disease in 1997, years before it showed up in Canada and devastated this country's beef industry, a CBC News investigation suggests.

INDEPTH: Mad Cow Disease


Suspected mad cow, from a USDA video.
Dr. Masuo Doi, the U.S. Department of Agriculture veterinarian who initially investigated both 1997 cases, says he is haunted by fears that the right tests were not done and that his own department did not properly investigate whether the cow had BSE.

Doi is now retired and speaking for the first time about his concerns.

"I don't want to carry on off to my retirement," he told CBC's Investigative Unit. "I want to hand it over to someone to continue, to find out. I think it's very, very important ...

"How many did we miss?"

Doi's concerns are echoed by Dr. Karl Langheindrich, the chief scientist at a U.S. Department of Agriculture lab in Athens, Ga., that ran the early tests on one of the cows.

Documents obtained by CBC show that the samples tested by the department did not contain parts of the animal's brain critical for an accurate diagnosis.

Langheindrich told CBC that the department will never be able to say for sure what was wrong with the cow, though at the time it publicly ruled out bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

"Based on the clinical symptoms and the description given by the veterinarian, you can verify, yes, this animal had CNS, central nervous system disease, but you can't specify it in your findings further than that," he said.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is refusing to talk about the cases, saying the documents provided to CBC speak for themselves.

1997 video from New York shows stricken cow

The scientists' comments raise new questions about how the U.S. industry has been able to essentially escape BSE when Canada's much smaller industry, observing almost identical safety and testing practices, has had four cases in the past two years.

Part of the answer could be in a slaughterhouse in Oriskany Falls, N.Y., which eight years ago may have become the home of the first American case of mad cow.

Bobby Godfrey, who worked at the plant, remembers a cow that arrived one day in May 1997.

"I thought it was a mad dog, to tell you the truth," he told CBC. "Didn't know what the hell it was. Never seen a cow act like that in all the cows I saw go through there. There was definitely something wrong with it."

The suspect cow was recorded on USDA videotape, which has been obtained by CBC News. It shows the animal trembling, hunching its back and charging plant workers.

"Me and my vet, including our inspector, they thought [the cow] was quite different," Doi told CBC. "They thought it was the BSE."

Key areas of brain not tested: documents

Documents obtained by CBC News show that the U.S. government was preparing for the worst. Initial signs pointed to its first case of mad cow disease, which would have immediate impacts on U.S. beef exports to countries around the world.

But further tests on the animal came back negative, the USDA later reported.


Dr. Masuo Doi, a retired USDA veterinarian.
The final conclusion from an independent university lab: The cow had a rare brain disorder never reported in that breed of cattle either before or since v not the dreaded bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

CBC News has now learned that key areas of the brain where signs of BSE would be most noticeable were never tested. The most important samples somehow went missing.

That information was contained in a USDA lab report that was left out of the documents officially released by the department. It proves that the scientist in charge of the case knew his investigation was limited because of the missing brain tissue.

Second suspected case surfaces at same plant

With questions about the first cow still lingering, a second American cow showed up at the same plant three months later with suspicious symptoms. Videotape of that animal shows its head was bobbing and it was unable to rise to its feet, setting off warning bells for mad cow disease.

The second cow's brain was also sent for testing. Officials were later told verbally that the samples had tested negative for BSE.

Doi made repeated requests for documentary proof of the negative tests. To this day, he has seen nothing.

"How many are buried?" he wonders of other possible cases of BSE in the United States. "Can you really trust our inspection [system]?"

For weeks, the USDA told CBC that it had no records for the second cow suspected of having BSE in 1997. Then just a few days ago, it suddenly produced documents that it says proves that a cow was tested and that the tests were negative for mad cow disease.

But the documents also prove, once again, that there were problems with the testing. This time, so much brain tissue was missing that it compromised the examination.


2nd suspected mad cow, from a USDA video.
The problems were so severe that one USDA scientist wrote that his own examination was of "questionable validity" because he couldn't tell what part of the cow's brain he was looking at.

Felicia Nestor, a lawyer who represents U.S. government whistle-blowers, says she isn't surprised by what this CBC News investigation uncovered.

"There have been too many times where information or tissues or other evidence has just sort of disappeared, fallen through the cracks," said Nestor, who has been handling USDA-related cases for nearly 10 years.

"There are a lot of holes. There are a lot of holes."

Commons committee hears coverup allegations

The results of the CBC investigation were broadcast on the same day that a former U.S. agriculture inspector, during testimony at a House of Commons committee, accused his own government of covering up suspected cases of BSE.

On Tuesday, Lester Friedlander repeated a claim he has made before v that cases of BSE surfaced in the U.S. long before the disease showed up in Canada.

Friedlander, who was fired from his job as head of inspections at a meat-packing plant in Philadelphia in 1995 after criticizing what he called unsafe practices, says he is willing to take a lie detector test to prove he is telling the truth.

The U.S. government has denied his allegations.



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