feeding dead cows to animals

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FEEDING DEAD COWS TO ANIMALS

 

FEEDING DEAD COWS TO ANIMALS

 

This year, 20 billion pounds of dead cows will be fed

to

American farm animals. These animals, in turn, will be

 

slaughtered and eaten by American consumers.

 

Experts agree that England's epidemic of Mad Cow

Disease

occurred as a result of feeding infected dead animals

back

to cows being raised for human food. The same practice

has

occurred in America, although new FDA regulations

prohibit

feeding cows their mothers and sisters.

 

The infectious agent responsible for mad cow disease

is a

Prion (pronounced: pree-on). This protein particle

resembles a crystal, and is very difficult to destroy.

 

Prions are neither bacterial nor viral in nature. They

 

contain no DNA. Prions reproduce by " folding " mirror

images

of themselves in the brain of either cows or humans.

During

this invasive process, areas of the brain turn into a

sponge-like mass. The medical term for Mad Cow Disease

is

Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (BSE). In lab tests,

Prions

have been exposed to temperatures of 680 degrees

Fahrenheit

and higher. The Prions survive. (Page 17, Mad Cows and

 

Milkgate by Virgil Hulse, M.D.)

 

Although the Food and Drug Administration has banned

the

feeding of dead cows to live cows, they have not

banned

feeding slaughterhouse renderings to other farm

animals.

 

What happens to cow carcasses today? They are fed to

pigs

and chickens. By eating chicken, humans may be exposed

to

Prions. Some scientists say that the incubation period

for

the human variant of the brain wasting disease may be

as

long as 30 years.

 

An article in the current issue of Hoard's Dairyman

(March

25, 2001, page 217) innocently reports:

 

" Ban on feeding ruminant meat and bone meal to

ruminants may

be expanded to include not feeding it to pigs and

chickens,

says FDA's acting commissioner. ({That} would create

10-

million-ton-a-year disposal problem.) "

 

This is what millions of dead animal carcasses

represent to

dairy processors; a " disposal problem. "

 

Ten million tons of blood and entrails, bones, and

vital

organs. Ten million tons of ground intestinal worms

and

cancerous tumors. Ten million tons of the grossest

imaginable byproducts of animal slaughter. Ten million

tons

are equal to 20 billion pounds.

 

There are 280 million Americans. Slaughterhouse

renderings

represent an average of 71 pounds worth of

unmentionables

per American per year. Have you eaten your three

ounces of

guts today? Kinda gets me right in the gut. Continue

eating chicken and pork, and carry the constant image

of

what gives that flesh, and your flesh, its essence.

 

 

 

 

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Robert Cohen author of: MILK A-Z

(201-871-5871)

Executive Director (notmilkman)

Dairy Education Board

http://www.notmilk.com

 

 

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