FEEDING DEAD COWS TO ANIMALS

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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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