Gaps Remain in Mad Cow Disease Defenses (no change in 18 mos.)

[maddezmom]

13 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - American cattle are eating chicken litter, cattle blood and restaurant leftovers that could help transmit mad cow disease — a gap in the U.S. defense that the Bush administration promised to close nearly 18 months ago.


"Once the cameras were turned off and the media coverage dissipated, then it's been business as usual, no real reform, just keep feeding slaughterhouse waste," said John Stauber, an activist and co-author of "Mad Cow USA: Could the Nightmare Happen Here?"

He contended, "The entire U.S. policy is designed to protect the livestock industry's access to slaughterhouse waste as cheap feed."

The Food and Drug Administration promised to tighten feed rules shortly after the first case of mad cow disease was confirmed in the U.S., in a Washington state cow in December 2003.

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more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050617/ap_on_re_us/mad_cow_feed_ban;_

[cliss]

1. "Chicken Litter, cattle blood and restaurant

leftovers". Wow. That makes me feel SO cared for by the Beef Industry.

[shockra]

14. Yummy cats and dogs too.

The last paragraph of CNN article: Are humans endangered if cattle dine on chicken manure?

Millions of euthanized cats and dogs, collected from veterinarians and animal shelters, have long been rendered into livestock feed each year, the article says.

http://www.cnn.com/US/9708/23/chicken.manure/

[Quakerfriend]

2. Yeah, and I noticed that Annie V. could 'nt wait to leave her

post...wonder why??

[OKNancy]

3. kick

[TacticalPeek]

4. Mad cow disease: Gaps remain in U.S. defense against killer

Page Updated: Saturday, June 18, 2005 9:38 AM PDT

Mad cow disease: Gaps remain in U.S. defense against killer


By Libby Quaid, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - American cattle are eating chicken litter, cattle blood and restaurant leftovers that could help transmit mad cow disease - a gap in the U.S. defense that the Bush administration promised to close nearly 18 months ago.

"Once the cameras were turned off and the media coverage dissipated, then it's been business as usual, no real reform, just keep feeding slaughterhouse waste," said John Stauber, an activist and co-author of "Mad Cow USA: Could the Nightmare Happen Here?"

He contended, "The entire U.S. policy is designed to protect the livestock industry's access to slaughterhouse waste as cheap feed."

The government is now investigating another possible case of mad cow disease in the United States. The beef cow had been tested and declared free of the disease last November, but new tests came up positive, and a laboratory in England is conducting more tests.

http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2005/06/18/news/news02.txt


related - Loopholes in the cattle feed ban
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2005/06/18/news/news03.txt

[samdogmom]

5. When Republicans are in power, it's best to be a vegetarian...

according to a very revealing chapter in Molly Ivins' "Bushwhacked".

[depakid]

10. The Republicans NEVER intended to protect the food supply

These people don't believe in science and have no problem whatsoever poisoning people- including children.

Of course, you won't see anything on American TV about it- can't offend the sponsers you know.

[the other one]

6. Read Erik Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation"

For a revealing look into our food supply.

[Pooka Fey]

7. I'm throwing out the ground beef I bought at Safeway last night.

I was only going to buy organic beef, but I slipped up. Thanks for this reminder.

Mad Cow disease can take up to 18 years to show symptoms from the time of infection. The disease causes your brain to look like a block of Swiss cheese - full of tunnels. Before you die, you will lapse into full scale madness.

Cows are vegetarians not cannibals. This is so gross.

[cliss]

8. The title of this article is completely misleading.

"Gaps remain in US defense against killer". The title makes it seem like the US is trying to eradicate BSE, or Mad Cow Disease. In fact, what they are, in fact, is trying to continue with their same practices.

Practices of turning cows into cannibals. I've read somewhere that cows have 14 stomachs. As they eat parts of other cows, this meat which is absolutely unsuited for their systems, as well as chicken crap and restaurant leftovers, and becomes poisonous.

What's so hard about this for them to understand? They're not trying to "defend" against this killer. They're abetting it.

[flvegan]

9. It's a good time to be vegan.

[daleo]

11. Mad Cow USA is well worth reading

And you can get it for free off the internet (just google around a bit).

[shockra]

12. Other books.

Brain Trust: The Hidden Connection Between Mad Cow and Alzheimer's Disease by Colm A. Kelleher

Dying for a Hamburger: Modern Meat Processing and the Epidemic of Alzheimer's Disease by Murray Waldman, Marjorie Lamb -- to be released July 1st.

[TacticalPeek]

13. Mad cow disease: Gaps remain in U.S. defense against killer

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