Guest guest Posted January 4, 2004 Report Share Posted January 4, 2004 Just when you thought it was safe to eat chicken… Part One By Dennis H. Clarke NOTE: The infectious agent in Mad cow disease and all of its various forms, including those so far found in birds, rodents, cats, deer, elk, sheep, swine, cattle, humans and other species is a mutated form of protein called a prion. It can't be "killed" or rendered harmless by cooking, freezing, radiation or any other known means It infects species and is then further infectious by blood and blood byproducts. Gestation periods vary but from the onset of symptoms to death is always within a year. It is an apparent neurological disease which destroys the brain, leaving the brains of animals shot throughout with perforations causing the brains of its victim to resemble a sponge. There is no known cure. As most of us are probably now aware, U.S. and Canadian beef is currently under embargo by most of our largest trading partners due to a Mad Cow having recently been discovered in Washington State and the discovery that it is connected (again) to cow herds in Alberta Canada. In a comment made to the Western Governors Conference in Montana this last September and as reported on the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) site and other Canadian news sources, Alberta Premier Ralph Klein made the suggestion that such problems could have been avoided if the rancher who owned the cow discovered in Canada had known what to do. Obviously, this particular rancher "knew nothing about cattle ranching," per Klein who added, "I guess any self-respecting rancher would have shot, shoveled and shut up," rather than ship the sickly animal for slaughter. Subsequent to that interview, several beef farmers in the area were interviewed and a substantial proportion of them went along with the, “shoot, shovel and shut up” suggestion. “If you know your business, you don’t send your problems to town” one said. Talk about “mad!” But what, you may ask, has this got to do with chicken? Well, you don’t want to know so I’ll save that for a bit later in this article to give you time to adjust to the concepts. We are now being told that “all” American beef is safe by no less than the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the U.S. Government, an agency that sees nothing wrong with the fact that one out of every five Americans who wakes up dead each year has been killed by a medical treatment (not counting abortions. Stats and references on demand). It’s the FDA that is responsible for “testing” and other measures to assure the safety of our food. Last year alone, they claim to have tested 20,000 cows to see if they were ”mad.” This tiny number is about the equivalent of going up to a cow, pulling out a wild hair (from the cow), rolling it between middle finger and thumb and declaring the animal “safe for human consumption.” None of the 20,000 were found to be mad but some of them may have been a little upset. You see, there were around 35 million cows sent to market and slaughtered last year in the U.S. alone. Do the math. This declaration of “safe for human consumption/free of “mad cow,” after “testing” 20,000 cows or .000571% of the American herd is just nuts (madness if you will). No worries!!! “But,” the FDA tells us, “We checked the paperwork of most of the cattle feed suppliers and found them to be in order!” What do they mean by that? The FDA, without really inspecting (by "really" I mean actually “looking” for themselves and not just “listening” to what was said by suppliers to be going into animal feed), accepted the “word” or “paperwork” of all of the feed suppliers in the country (and wherever else we are getting such “feed”) that they didn’t allow any cow brains or spinal tissue to be put back into the cattle via their cattle feed. No one seems to be willing to confront the fact that we are only now beginning to catch up to some dim awareness of what has already been learned the hard way in Europe: The food supply will never be safe as long as animal parts are being fed to animals in this already highly infected environment. In England, one critic of the governments handling of the very same problem, exposed via a simple telephone survey that each week, based upon the total tonnage of cow parts being collected which were suspected of being infected with mad cow, 400 tones of suspect cow brains, spinal cords, head parts and other materials were slipping through the government created sieve and ending up in cattle feed "each week"! That would translate into approximately 5,000 tons per week in the U.S., leaking back into cow and other livestock feed if our regulations were that good. Our regulations are not that good. Associated Press reported this week that “Federal officials insist U.S. meat is safe because the brain, spinal cord and lower intestine — parts that they claim carry infection,” the same mistake of underestimation made in Europe, “were removed from the diseased cow before its meat was processed for human consumption.” In case you may be wondering what effect cooking meat may have on the spread of mad cow to humans, forget it. Cooking of the meat, rare or well done, has no effect on the transmission of the disease to humans. (By the way, once infected, we know that the disease is suspected of being able to be transmitted from one human to another via blood transfusions and donor organs.) We know that other parts of cows which are now known to be infected, from bone meal to cow lips to eyeballs can and do, all end up in feed for U.S. cattle (if not our hot dogs) and that bone marrow may be as infectious as various other organs from the spleen to dorsal root ganglia and as well, byproducts such as tallow and gelatin. How infected is the environment? Consider this: There were 81 cows from the same herd as the cow now in the news (parts of which may have gone to 8 states). Some of those cows may have given birth and some may have been shot shoveled and are not being spoken of today. Seem like a manageable number? Yes, this is manageable, 81 cows and their offspring identified and not, plus the meat of one known-to-be-infected cow spread over 40 or so businesses in eight States and Guam. Unfortunately, that’s “good news” the FDA wants us to concentrate our attention on for a moment and then go back to worrying about "terrorism." What they don’t want our attention on is the fact that the disease has been jumping species and that there are now know cases of infected cows, cats, birds, pigs, sheep and goats, mice, rabbits and some other rodents, as well as certain antelope, deer and elk and of course most important to your next meal, humans currently being infected. Perhaps the most pronounced and best known of these jumps outside of the cattle market is found in a wildfire amongst U.S. wild deer and elk. Tens-of-thousands of deer and elk have been discovered to be dieing of the same disease all around us. One of the ways our FDA has kept a lid on this has been by renaming the disease “chronic wasting disease.” It produces the same sponge-like destroyed brains. So, while it was a nice try and has diverted attention, changing the name of the disease hasn’t changed the disease or the outcome but has only served to magnify the threat. Quietly, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has set up what they call “free kill zones” in several states wherein hunters are being told to kill all deer and elk (and in some cases any other game), regardless of age or sex and to deliver the carcasses to be burned by the Ag folks at collection stations. The bottom line on this cross-species infection is that the disease, which is given a different name in each new host it infects, turns the brains of that species to a naked “Sponge Bob.” The good news is that there is “little or no evidence” of cross infection among the animals being fed the body parts of cattle and other animals and not much at this point about an epidemic among humans. But what the FDA doesn’t want us to look at (among lots of other things the FDA doesn’t want us to look at) is why this crisis is being called, “The Chernobyl of food disasters.” This has to do with the incubation period (the period from infection to onset of the obvious symptoms of disease) for this brain-wasting killer differs from one species to the next. In cattle, it is generally believed to take five to seven years before the animal appears sick and it progresses rapidly to death within a year. As with the radiation poisonings of perhaps millions of people across the old USSR and Europe, the real effects of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl won’t be seen for years to come. The best guesstimate as to the time “Mad Cow” will take to reveal itself is about 30 years from infection in humans. All of this brings us back to chickens. Almost all of our livestock at this point, due to the insane policies of the killers at the FDA, should be suspected of having been infected via contaminated feed. Among such contaminated livestock are chickens which have not only been fed contaminated cow parts but are being slaughtered before any chance of the onset of the most apparent and final symptoms of "mad chicken disease." Further, chicken litter (chicken fecal matter) is being added back into cattle and other feeds to be recirculated, presumably to widen the infection of the various species involved. But now with some of us watching, the only real good news for the criminals at the FDA is that no one has yet figured out how to tell “mad chickens” from normal ones. It's a bit like the FDA allowing drug companies to test the safety of antidepressants on rats. It's rather difficult for most researchers to tell a sane from a depressed from a suicidal rat or from a rat who if he could, would take up an AK-47 assault rifle and shoot every rat he or she knows. Thus the rule should be that if any medical doctor negligently and irresponsibly prescribes such an inherently dangerous substance as an antidepressant that the doctor should be held responsible for the outcome and any FDA official who failed to enforce such a rule should be held culpable as well. When it comes to "mad cows, deer, elk, chickens, ducks, ostriches hogs, sheep" and other species now infected (not to mention Fido and your cat), the FDA policy is simple: encourage farmers and others to shoot, shovel and shut the (bleep) up! Dennis H. Clarke Ian "Doc" Shillington N.D.505-772-5889Dr.IanShillington Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2004 Report Share Posted January 4, 2004 Well if it can't be rendered harmless by any known means than how come they want to burn 'em all up? Don Quai - Dr. Ian Shillington herbal remedies Sunday, January 04, 2004 6:42 PM [herbal remedies] Mad as Hell - by Dennis H. Clarke ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Ain't no bugs here!Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.557 / Virus Database: 349 - Release 12/30/03 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2004 Report Share Posted January 4, 2004 And, you're asking for a sane solution from the FDA??? Doc Ian "Doc" Shillington N.D.505-772-5889Dr.IanShillington - Don Quai herbal remedies Sunday, January 04, 2004 11:30 AM Re: [herbal remedies] Mad as Hell - by Dennis H. Clarke Well if it can't be rendered harmless by any known means than how come they want to burn 'em all up? Don Quai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2004 Report Share Posted January 4, 2004 ROFLMAO DQ - Dr. Ian Shillington herbal remedies Sunday, January 04, 2004 7:39 PM Re: [herbal remedies] Mad as Hell - by Dennis H. Clarke And, you're asking for a sane solution from the FDA??? Doc Ian "Doc" Shillington N.D.505-772-5889Dr.IanShillington - Don Quai herbal remedies Sunday, January 04, 2004 11:30 AM Re: [herbal remedies] Mad as Hell - by Dennis H. Clarke Well if it can't be rendered harmless by any known means than how come they want to burn 'em all up? Don QuaiFederal Law requires that we warn you of the following: 1. Natural methods can sometimes backfire. 2. If you are pregnant, consult your physician before using any natural remedy. 3. The Constitution guarantees you the right to be your own physician and toprescribe for your own health. We are not medical doctors although MDs are welcome to post here as long as they behave themselves. Any opinions put forth by the list members are exactly that, and any person following the advice of anyone posting here does so at their own risk. It is up to you to educate yourself. By accepting advice or products from list members, you are agreeing to be fully responsible for your own health, and hold the List Owner and members free of any liability. Dr. Ian ShillingtonDoctor of NaturopathyDr.IanShillington Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2004 Report Share Posted January 4, 2004 Sanity and FDA?? Isn't that an oxymoron?..lol diane in nw mt herbal remedies , " Dr. Ian Shillington " <Dr.IanShillington@G...> wrote: > And, you're asking for a sane solution from the FDA??? > Doc > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2004 Report Share Posted January 4, 2004 Yeah, probably is. But then so is Food & Drug Administration. Who the heck needs a government agency to tell them how to administer food? LOL Don Quai - jesusislord57 herbal remedies Sunday, January 04, 2004 8:29 PM [herbal remedies] Re: Mad as Hell - by Dennis H. Clarke Sanity and FDA?? Isn't that an oxymoron?..loldiane in nw mt ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Ain't no bugs here!Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.557 / Virus Database: 349 - Release 12/30/03 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2004 Report Share Posted January 4, 2004 Absolutely! LOL Doc Ian "Doc" Shillington N.D.505-772-5889Dr.IanShillington - jesusislord57 herbal remedies Sunday, January 04, 2004 12:29 PM [herbal remedies] Re: Mad as Hell - by Dennis H. Clarke Sanity and FDA?? Isn't that an oxymoron?..loldiane in nw mt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2004 Report Share Posted January 4, 2004 Next they'll be telling us how to eat it. ) Doc Ian "Doc" Shillington N.D.505-772-5889Dr.IanShillington - Don Quai herbal remedies Sunday, January 04, 2004 2:35 PM Re: [herbal remedies] Re: Mad as Hell - by Dennis H. Clarke Yeah, probably is. But then so is Food & Drug Administration. Who the heck needs a government agency to tell them how to administer food? LOL Don Quai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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