mad cow disease and you

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I am glad I quit eating meat long, long ago and far away.

For those of you who still partake, or have eaten meat in the last five or ten years, or who have gotten, or expect to get, blood transfusions, you should educate yourselves on this topic.

Here is an excerpt from an American Red Cross explanation of this potentially widespread problem:

It is unclear as to whether this now small-scale human epidemic which has thus far spared our continent will remain small and contained, or will become a major global epidemic in the years ahead. Without a reliable blood test to detect those infected but not yet clinically ill, we have no knowledge of the size of the human reservoir of vCJD that currently exists in any population. Since people travel widely throughout the world that reservoir is not likely to be limited in any one place.

For the rest of the story, go to: http://www.redcross.org/services/biomed/blood/supply/tse/bsep olicy.html

This is very seriously scary shit!

JOJ

Even you right wing religious nuts deserve warnings, I suppose.

-- jumpoff joe (jumpoff@ecoweb.net), July 27, 2001

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Gosh, thanks JOJ! Yes, this stuff is really scary. There's a lot of crazy stuff going on in spreading of disease and the emergence of new diseases. It helps to be a religious whacko fanatic right winger. (:smiles:) We actually have the vegetarian thing in common, now that's wild! Thanks for pointing this out.

-- Doreen (animalwaitress@yahoo.com), July 27, 2001.

I tried to look at it but arrived at a dead end. But yes I agree it is scary. There would be a very definite population reduction if this happens in a major way. Even some of my diehard meat eating friends have gone vegan.

-- Rebekah (daniel@itss.net), July 28, 2001.

The url didn't work quite right. I just chopped off the end and got there that way....There is a blank space in the word policy and I don't think computers figure out how to put that together. You could just put it in the browser line and then edit that space out.

The thing is that with bone meal, and blood meal being used in fertilizer vegetarians and vegans even, unless they grow all their own stuff without any animal anything, aren't completely immune from this. From what I understand the prions are nigh indestructible. I do wonder if the labs testing the prions have tried any of the Rife Technology on the prions...I tried looking a while back and couldn't find anything on it.

Also, I can't recall the fellow;s name, but a man in England had pretty much traced the origins of the mad cow disease to the use of an organophosphate fly repellent. I know I posted it on CS.

Did you guys hear that cats are now getting this from catfood?

-- Dreen (biaquit@here.com), July 28, 2001.


Here is another interesting article that my husband found about the possible origin of BSE.

http://www.rense.com/general12/bse.htm

About the cat food, how many farm animals have gobbled down the family dog's food? I know I have seen it happen on many homesteads. Then there is the concern of people eating dogfood! How many toddlers have sampled Fido's food? This is a major reason why we have decided not to own a dog any longer.

-- Rebekah (daniel@itss.net), July 28, 2001.


Good article, Rebekah. It doesn't explain why mad cow started showing up in Europe, but perhaps there is an explanation different than the ARC tells: Britain outlawed feeding some types of feed to cows, so the farmers started exporting this contaminated feed to other countries. Here's a direct quote from the ARC: "Contaminated feed that was banned in the UK was exported into the rest of Europe and perhaps elsewhere".

An interesting and unnerving story, all in all. I hope like hell it doesn't get TOO interesting!

JOJ

-- jumpoff joe (jumpoff@ecoweb.net), July 28, 2001.



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