>I dont know what is true and false about mad cow.. Time to learn, if you're a food-eating human who lives in the US (or anywhere). I've given you some good places to start, especially Rampton and Stauber's "Mad Cow USA", free full-text download. http://www.prwatch.org/books/madcow.html
This from Misha Gale-Sinex, who seldom puts a foot wrong in these issues, dead on target, as usual: >... regardless of whether prions are or aren't in this or that food, >there is a bigger problem: > >***INDUSTRIAL FOOD SYSTEMS CONCENTRATE PATHOGENS*** > >[UW Madison veterinary researcher] Dick Marsh wrote about the >feeding of animal proteins to animals as a main vector for >"amplifying the disease cycle." At the moment he put those words >into print--August of 1990--he put his finger on the crucial >crossroads between epidemiology and industrial ag practices. For all >of us. > >I heard from various sources that Dick was harassed, and threatened >with lawsuits, by the meat industry in the 1990s. That was the era >when PR companies helped industry groups develop "agricultural >disparagement" legislation to shut down discussion of food systems >issues like BSE, pesticides, or food safety. This is what led Howard >Lyman to appear on the Oprah show, and for him and her afterward to >become the victims of a SLAPP lawsuit by the Texas Cattlemen's >Association... And that's why you don't know. >but I do know ... >that after living in england for a year... The Feds have passed a >ruling that keeps me from donating blood anymore. Think the >government is not telling all of us what is really going on. Okay, good start, keep going... Best Keith Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
