Mad Cow Disease

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Mad Cow Disease has Caused Americans to Take a Second Look at Their Dietary

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OREGON, U.S.A., January 10, 2004: Mad Cow Disease, scientifically known as

bovine spongiform encephalopathy, has caused alarm to some American

consumers of beef after a Washington Holstein was identified as carrying

the disease. Some are considering adopting a vegetarian diet. This article

explains how the beef industry has permeated American Society. Cow

by-products are used to make gelatin, soap, asphalt roads and car tires. In

the pharmaceutical industry many drugs come from a cow's body including

Heparin, an anticoagulant used to thin blood, and Epinephrine to stimulate

the heart in the event of cardiac arrest. The article says, "Plenty to

render, recycle -- only about half of a beef cow ends up in the meat case,

according to the National Renderers Association. The castoffs from beef

production -- 35 million cattle slaughtered annually -- would quickly

overflow the nation's landfills if they weren't rendered and recycled. So

the humble cow continues to yield fertilizer from dried blood, buttons from

hooves, neat's-foot oil from shin bones and toothpaste from fats." For

Hindus, this article is a real eye opener -- actually rather shocking -- as

we revere all life forms and do not consider that a human life form is

superior to any other. Our hearts go out to the humble cow, used, abused

and never honored in modern society.

 

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