How can it be harmless and 100% fatal at the same time?

[Guest guest]

How can it be harmless and 100% fatal at the same

time?

 

http://www.davelouthan.org/

 

May 23, 2004

 

Hi friends.

Dave Louthan here.

 

I'm the guy that killed that mad cow. I killed that

cow Dec.9. It was processed into hamburger along with

50 other cows and shipped to 8 states and was eaten by

1000's of people. Some of those people will contract

BSE and die.

 

We took a brain sample from that cow and gave it to

the USDA the day we killed her. It took the USDA 2

weeks to get the results back from the lab in Aimes,

Iowa. It only took us 1 day to get that meat to

market.

 

Here's a curious thing. At the time when everybody was

up in arms about that cow being shipped and eaten, the

USDA said it couldn't be helped because the test they

used takes two weeks to get a result.

 

Now they are saying that any " non-negatives " also

known as positives that turn up during the new test

procedures using the fast test will be sent to Aimes

to be retested using the same test they used on my

cow. But now that exact same test will be ready in 24

to 48 hours.

 

Here's another curious. During the 2 weeks after we

killed the mad cow and before it was announced, for no

apparent reason, the cattle futures market went crazy.

It was as if somebody at the USDA called some of her

cow trading friends and had them buy short and sell

long. Yet another investigation is underway.

 

Out of an " abundance of caution " the USDA blocked the

import of all beef from Canada after the discovery of

a mad cow there. That was in May of 2003. That day at

Vern's Moses Lake Meat we had a couple of dozen steers

and heifers in the pens. They all had Canadian ear

tags.

 

We asked the USDA inspector what to do with them. He

made a phone call. He informed us after a short time

that the USDA had decided that all Canadian cattle

that were on this side of the border were safe to eat.

We slaughtered them and a flood of Canadians in the

days that followed. No BSE testing was done.

 

Here is something that out to scare the hell out of

anybody who has continued to eat hamburgers since word

of the mad cow epidemic came out. We have been sliding

into the burger stands and ordering up what we thought

was good safe U.S. hamburger. After all BSE is a

Canadian problem. Our mad cow was a Canadian.

 

We didn't do anymore testing so the BSE won't be able

to find us. What we didn't know was the USDA secretly

let their friends in the meat business smuggle in

30,000,000 pounds of Canadian hamburger. Untested

hamburger. Hamburger from a place that not even the

USDA can deny is contaminated with BSE. 30,000,000

pounds = 120,000,000 quarter pound hamburgers. That's

one mad cow sandwich for exactly half the people in

the United States.

 

If you have had a hamburger in the last year you have

probably got a belly full of Prions. These Prions are

small and tough. They go through your stomach lining

into your blood stream. From there they find nerve

tissue in your spinal cord, brain stem, and brain.

They live there for a few years eating and multiplying

until a few Prions turn into billions and then they

get down to some serious brain consumption.

 

You will be moody and unproductive at first. Then you

will become very depressed. You will walk funny and be

uncoordinated. Your family will think you're drunk or

have a drug problem. A visit to the doctor will reveal

a brain problem. It will be called genetic or

spontaneous.

 

The medicos and the government will be falling all

over themselves to deny it's Mad Cow. The doctors do

not want to do an autopsy because they may be exposed

to the disease and the government won't let them

because it might spoil the beef business. You'll fall

into a coma and you will die but not before your

family has been buried in hospital bills. Better start

saving.

 

A mad cow was found in San Angelo, Texas at a

slaughterhouse. The USDA vet called the district

office to see if he could test it. No absolutely not.

Kill it and get it out of there quick. Word slipped

out. Apparently I'm not the only whistle blower out

here.

 

The USDA said well yes we did have a little procedure

problem there but don't worry that cow never made it

into the food chain. That is the exact same thing they

said about my cow. Don't worry they say that cow was

sent to the rendering plant and made into pig food,

pet food, and cosmetics.

 

If you don't eat meat but you do wear makeup or you

take medicine in capsules or gel caps you are also in

danger of contracting BSE. The gel in the gel cap is

made from rendered mad cows.

 

Pig Feed. They say it's OK to feed mad cows to pigs

because they don't think pigs get mad cow. Dr Stanley

Pruisner, the man who discovered Prions has told us

ALL mammals can get mad cow.

 

A farmer needs some feed for his cows. He goes to the

feed store. A sack of cow feed is $14.59. A sack of

pig feed is $6.29. He knows the cows can't read. What

do you think he is going to buy. Nobody is going to

follow him home and make sure he gives that feed to

pigs.

 

His cows are now contaminated. They look perfectly

healthy but inside their brains they are developing

little pink holes. They'll go to slaughter and no

tests will be done because we don't do that.

 

The meat will be cut into steaks and go to the butcher

shop. You will go in and you'll ask the butcher if the

meat is safe. Of course it is. This is Organic meat

from Oregon. It costs more but it's worth it because

it's Organic. Sure it is.

 

Here is the whole point of this tale.

 

Five months have gone by since I killed the mad cow.

Five months the USDA has not tested one single

solitary beef going into your dinner. Not one. Some

meat companies have tried to but Madame Secretary Ann

Veneman and her henchmen at the USDA stomped them

flat.

 

There is no way they are going to let another mad cow

surface. The idea was to hold out long enough that the

world, starved of good American beef, would fold and

start importing our beef again. That didn't happen.

Mexico did cave in.

 

Dr. DeHaven, henchman #1, says all the riskier meat

the USDA was smuggling in from Canada was destined for

Mexico so it should cause no one here concern. Sorry

Senior. Better pick your ministers a little more

careful next time. That one sold you out.

 

Our Government sold us out to. They traded our safety

and lives for a hand full of gold. The Big Four meat

packers bought the USDA lock, stock, and barrel. The

USDA-Food Safety Inspection Service carefully examines

each mad cow and passes it if it has no other

problems. It's processed into nicely wrapped pieces of

meat. You take it home and eat it. The more you eat

the more Prions you get.

 

I want to stop this mad cow madness. You can help me.

I have talked to all the newspapers and radio and

Internet shows until I am blue in the face. I went to

Olympia, Washington and talked to the Legislature and

they changed the law.

 

I went to Sacramento, California and talked to the

Senate. They are changing their law. That law allows

the meat packers in Ca. to test their beef for BSE.

Soon California will own the export business and the

beef raisers there will be mega rich. But for the life

of me I can't get any network attention.

 

If I could just get the word out on the evening news

and some of our favorite daytime talk shows I know I

could get this fixed. If you would be kind enough to

start calling CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX and tell them who

I am and that I have something that needs to be said.

 

Call your Congressperson and tell them that I'm still

here and squawking my head off and I need to get into

the hearings in D.C. They know me. I talk to them all

on the phone and often. I have taught them what

questions to ask but that is not the same as standing

at the podium and spewing out the cold hard truth.

 

Any help you people can give me on this will help all

of us. If you can help get me there I can take the

heat. I can't get there alone. I need all the help I

can get. Take care friends.

 

READ THIS:

 

 

DON'T trust USDA about mad cow

Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA

Amid concerns about beef's safety, the US Department

of Agriculture has

consistently sent a clear message: Trust us. We've got

mad cow disease

under control. ...

seattlepi.nwsource.com