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Mad Cow disease: Is it really Manganese Madness?

 

 

 

 

 

" Scientific knowledge filtration " usually takes the form of making it

impossible to properly evaluate evidence because of strongly held

theoretical preconceptions. Our extended pharma/medical complex has plenty

of (profitable) preconceptions in place, and because they control purse

strings on Research, fund the D.C. paid for whores, and maintain a tight

grip over doctors through an army of well paid young Drug company sales

reps--whose only job is dropping off latest samples and monitoring their Dr.

s list for prescriptions volume--it has little trouble sustaining lies.

 

It's blamed on bony British cows eating bone meal and cannalism; could it be

your body's use of manganese where copper would be better? Chickens can

convert potassium to calcium? Extraordinary Biology Hens denied calcium but

not potassium, stay perfectly healthy and lay . ...

 

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Mad Cows Or Mad Scientists?

 

 

 

THE SUPPRESSION OF ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS

 

The smoke and flames from funeral pyres for hundreds of thousands of British

cows are fading into distant memory, but the fear of this disease affecting

livestock or wildlife continues to circulate the globe.

 

Read more > > >

 

 

 

Since the powers-that-be have an interest in maintaining the

 

rogue prion theory as the cause of mad cow disease in public

 

perception, you won't hear of Purdey's work being reported in the

 

dominant media.

 

 

Mad Cow disease: Is it really Manganese Madness?

 

 

 

The Idaho Observer has taken a dissident position on every

 

disease scare that exists. In each case, whether its AIDS, SARS,

 

West Nile, small/monkey/cow/mousepox, anthrax, the " official "

 

stories used to scare people do not stand up to scientific scrutiny, logic

or even field experience. Mad cow is no different

 

except in one significant way: Prion diseases are currently all

 

up and down the food chain and all creatures with brains have

 

what it takes to be ravaged by mutated prions. What on earth has

 

caused this global propensity for madness? The answer to that is

 

why people must believe the official lies about mad cow.

 

 

 

Mad Cow or Manganese Madness?

 

 

 

From Friday's Journal (Purdey)

 

 

 

Mad Cow disease has been big in the news of late and I've been

 

studying the work of Mark Purdey for some good light on the

 

subject. Purdey is an English cattle farmer with personal

 

experience with the disease and an extraordinary amount of

 

scientific research on the subject under his belt.

 

 

 

False presumptions

 

 

 

Everyone seems now to assume that the cause of mad cow disease is

 

established and known. It is caused by a horrible " rogue prion "

 

that jumped from sheep into cattle when the cattle were fed meat

 

and bone meal that contained the remains of sheep that had

 

scrapie -- the sheep version of mad cow disease.

 

 

 

This meat and bone meal is made from the carcasses of all sorts

 

of animals, road kill, euthanized pets and sick farm animals --

 

all ground up and dried and made into powder. Once lodged in the

 

body of an animal or human, this rogue prion somehow multiplies

 

itself until it takes over your brain, fills your brain full of

 

holes like a sponge and then kills you.

 

 

 

Nothing destroys this rogue prion -- not cooking, not

 

irradiation, not the passage of time.

 

 

 

Everyone seems now to assume that this has been established

 

beyond controversy as the true cause of mad cow disease. It has a

 

strong emotional appeal because most people find the practice of

 

feeding meat and bone meal to naturally herbivorous cattle

 

perverse and disgusting.

 

 

 

Many well meaning people are using the concern over mad cow

 

disease to advocate banning this meat and bone meal as a feed for

 

cattle and raising cattle and other meat animals by organic

 

standards. I'm all in favor of organic farming and I'm all in

 

favor of feeding herbivorous cattle on their proper herbivorous

 

food. Nevertheless, now that I've studied Purdey's work, I'm not

 

at all convinced that we've been given the true story on the real

 

cause of mad cow disease. Purdey appears to have come closer to

 

the true cause of mad cow disease than anyone else.

 

 

 

Logic 101

 

 

 

Those who say that the problem of mad cow disease, and its human

 

equivalent Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, or CJD, would disappear if

 

the use of this meat and bone meal as cattle feed were altogether

 

banned, while well-intentioned and advocating something that I

 

certainly agree should be done, may not be right.

 

 

 

For instance, Purdey notes that the meat and bone meal was banned

 

in Britain in 1988, but nevertheless 40,000 cattle born after the

 

ban have come down with mad cow disease. Further, he notes that

 

in Ireland, Portugal, and France, there have been more cases of

 

mad cow disease reported in cattle born AFTER the meat and bone

 

meal feed was banned in these countries, than were being reported

 

before the bans. So the real cause of mad cow disease may very

 

well lie elsewhere than what we have all been told.

 

 

 

Phosmet and the warble fly

 

 

 

Mark Purdey's interest in mad cow disease began in 1982 when the

 

English government demanded that all cattle be treated with large

 

doses of an organophosphate insecticide called Phosmet, applied

 

along their spines in a systemic formulation designed to go

 

through the animal's skin and make its system toxic to the warble

 

fly.

 

 

 

Purdey was an organic farmer and didn't want to do it. He took

 

his case to court where he prevailed in 1984. The next year, mad

 

cow disease appeared in Britain and Purdey immediately suspected

 

it was connected to this warble fly eradication program. He

 

noticed that no cows born and raised on organic farms and not

 

treated with Phosmet, ever developed mad cow disease, although

 

the organic standards at the time allowed feeding these animals

 

some meat and bone meal. A few of his cattle developed mad cow

 

disease but they were all animals he had purchased and brought in

 

from conventional farms.

 

 

 

Immaculate replication?

 

 

 

Purdey thought that the advocates of the " rogue prion in the

 

meat-and-bone-meal " theory hadn't done a very good job of

 

explaining how this rogue prion was created in the first place.

 

Purdey also found there were no explanations as to how these

 

rogue prions replicated themselves once they had invaded their

 

host. Therefore, Purdey reasoned, the meat-and-bone-meal theory

 

cannot explain how the rogue prions could eventually gain the

 

force of numbers to turn one's brain into a sponge.

 

 

 

This " rogue " prion is not a virus, it is not a bacteria, it is

 

not a fungus, it is not a tiny parasitic animalcule. It is not a

 

living organism of any sort. It is a protein molecule. In high

 

school biology class we learn that protein molecules do not

 

replicate themselves sexually; we learn that proteins are

 

assembled upon demand from resources found in our bodies and

 

manufactured according to codes and templates for their structure

 

contained in our DNA.

 

 

 

Thus far I have not heard any of the advocates of the popular

 

theory explain this unique self-multiplying property of this

 

particular prion protein molecule. To my knowledge, no other

 

protein molecule in the universe has ever demonstrated such

 

behavior.

 

 

 

The Mad Cowboy

 

 

 

I heard Howard Lyman, the Mad Cowboy, in a radio interview

 

recently. Lyman, author of a book entitled, " The Mad Cowboy " ,

 

popularized the subject of mad cow disease in America with his

 

appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show in 1996. I liked listening

 

to Lyman as he's obviously a very well-intentioned man who has

 

dedicated his life to the promotion of organic farming. I

 

couldn't help but notice, however, that his presentation did not

 

contain any science to back up his explanation of the cause and

 

spread of mad cow disease.

 

 

 

The scientific cowboy

 

 

 

Purdey, on the other hand, has been proceeding logically to

 

determine how the prions replicate and how mad cow really

 

spreads. Suspecting Phosmet was involved but not wanting to jump

 

to any conclusions, Purdey hired Dr. Stephen Whatley of the

 

Institute of Psychiatry in London, to subject brain cell cultures

 

to doses of Phosmet to see if this would create the rogue prion.

 

As I've come to understand, prion proteins are normal

 

constituents of nerve and brain tissue but deformed, abnormal

 

prions are being found in the brains of the poor wretched

 

creatures who die from mad cow disease.

 

 

 

Whatley's tests caused some deformation of the prion protein, but

 

not in the precise configuration found in the mad cow disease. So

 

Purdey went back to square one and continued researching further,

 

with a willingness to abandon his initial hypothesis if the

 

evidence could not be found to support it.

 

 

 

Purdey observed that the mad cow disease, and its human form CJD,

 

and the same disease found amongst deer and referred to as

 

chronic wasting disease (CWO), were occurring in clusters in

 

certain areas here and there around the world.

 

 

 

This was another point where he found the popular theory not

 

making sense. If mad cow disease were really caused by the cattle

 

eating meat and bone meal, and if CJD were really caused by

 

people eating beef, then the disease should be occurring at

 

random over broad areas, not in clusters in, certain small

 

limited areas.

 

 

 

Purdey also observed that Britain was exporting large amounts of

 

meat and bone meal to a number of countries such as India, South

 

Africa and Saudi Arabia, and yet the cattle there were not

 

developing mad cow disease.

 

 

 

Further he noted that several antelope in the London Zoo came

 

down with mad cow disease but they had never eaten meat and bone

 

meal. He also observed how several cows on an English government

 

experimental farm, raised totally on grass and silage with no

 

meat and bone meal, developed mad cow disease.

 

 

 

These things just didn't add up to support the official theory.

 

Since the disease was occurring in clusters in certain limited

 

areas, Purdey logically suspected that environmental factors --

 

something peculiar to the environment of these areas -- was

 

likely the cause of prion disease outbreaks.

 

 

 

(I recently heard a radio news report this morning about a

 

cluster of CJD cases appearing in a town in New Jersey; more

 

confirmation of Purdey's observations).

 

 

 

Common environmental factors discovered

 

 

 

Purdey traveled to as many mad cow disease cluster areas -- or

 

maybe I should call them spongiform encephelopathy cluster areas,

 

since they included CJD and CWD areas as well.

 

 

 

" Spongiform " means that it's full of little holes like a sponge;

 

" encephelo " means brain, and " pathy " means disease. So

 

" spongiform encephelopathy " is just a fancy name for a disease

 

that fills your brain full of little holes so it looks like a

 

sponge.

 

 

 

Anyway, Purdey traveled to as many areas around the world as he

 

could get to, where clusters of the spongiform encephelopathy

 

diseases were occurring, to examine the local environments.

 

Purdey was searching for unusual conditions that may be common

 

among areas reporting incidence of prion disease.

 

 

 

Purdey reports that, in all these areas, he found a certain

 

package of similar environmental factors.

 

 

 

One was a very low level of copper in the soil, so that animals

 

and people living there would tend to be deficient in copper.

 

 

 

Another was an abnormally high level of manganese, either

 

naturally occurring in the soil or, in many cases, as a result of

 

a local industry polluting the area with manganese.

 

 

 

Manganese madness "

 

 

 

Purdey's investigations revealed is a condition called " manganese

 

madness " developed with some frequency by manganese miners, with

 

symptoms essentially the same as CJD. So it began to look likely

 

that these spongiform encephelopathy diseases were forms of

 

manganese poisoning. It is said that CJD is very similar to

 

Alzheimer's disease, which is generally attributed to metal

 

toxicity from aluminum and mercury. It makes sense that CJD could

 

be due to similar metal toxicity from manganese.

 

 

 

Another factor common to mad cow disease clusters, Purdey found,

 

was either very high levels of ultraviolet light due to high

 

altitude, or frequent sonic shocks caused by sonic booms of

 

supersonic aircraft, frequent explosions or, in a few cases,

 

proximity to a rumbling volcano. So he set out to discover how

 

this particular package of environmental factors could be causing

 

brains to turn into sponges.

 

 

 

Scientific support for empirical observations

 

 

 

Purdey then found that his work connected very well with the work

 

of Dr. David Brown of Cambridge University. Dr. Brown had

 

demonstrated that normal, healthy prion protein bonds to copper

 

in the normal, healthy brain and nervous system. Remember, this

 

prion protein is a normal constituent of a normal brain; it is

 

abnormal or deformed prion proteins that are associated with

 

spongiform encephelopathy disease.

 

 

 

Is it the abnormal prion that causes the disease or is it some

 

unhealthy factor in the environment that causes the prion to

 

become deformed and abnormal and this leads to the disease "

 

 

 

Purdey published a paper proposing that: Manganese could, in the

 

presence of copper deficiency in the animal or human, substitute

 

for copper in the prion protein, thus producing the abnormal

 

prion found in the brains of spongiform encephelopathy disease

 

victims.

 

 

 

This was a hypothesis based on his field work in the areas where

 

clusters of mad cow and CJD were occurring and where, he

 

observed, all these areas had unusually low levels of copper in

 

the soil and unusually high levels of manganese in either the

 

soil or the atmosphere.

 

 

 

Purdey reports that, " David Brown ran the necessary cell-culture

 

experiments, in which he introduced manganese into

 

copper-depleted prion protein cell cultures. "

 

 

 

Behold the mutated prion

 

 

 

Amazingly, his experiments produced the key deformation of the

 

prion protein which the earlier tests using organophosphate (OP)

 

insecticides like the Phosmet (Purdey initially suspected as the

 

cause of mad cow disease at the Institute of Psychiatry) had

 

failed to create. These experiments represented the first time

 

that malformed prion protein had been created experimentally as a

 

de novo transformation.

 

 

 

So it appears that these experiments definitively answered the

 

key question of where this abnormal prion came from in the first

 

place, something I have not heard the advocates of the

 

conventional theory do with any clarity.

 

 

 

What I have heard them say is that the rogue prion originally

 

came from sheep with scrapie disease. How the sheep got it in the

 

first place is not explained. But because scrapie-diseased sheep

 

brains were included in the meat and bone meal fed to cattle, the

 

prion got into cattle where it then proceeded to multiply itself

 

by the gazillions.

 

 

 

Again they don't explain how the prion multiplies itself. And if

 

a person eats meat or a beef byproduct such as a gelatin capsule

 

that contains one of these rogue prions, again it can multiply

 

itself by the gazillions in the brain of the unfortunate person

 

until it turns his or her brain into a sponge and he or she dies

 

a most wretched death.

 

 

 

Supplementation over slaughter

 

 

 

Further, it appears that here we would also have the real key to

 

preventing spongiform encephelopathy disease -- not by mass

 

slaughter of healthy animals as the government is wont to do, on

 

the premise that they may harbor rogue prions which they will

 

eventually transmit to somebody, and not by electronically

 

tagging and tracking every animal, but by simply making sure that

 

the animals -- or we ourselves -- do not suffer from copper

 

deficiencies in their nutrition.

 

 

 

The conventional theory has made many people worried sick over

 

getting CJD and they've given up meat eating and continue to live

 

in anxiety that they may get CJD from a stray prion that has

 

wormed its devilish way into a gelatin capsule or bar of soap.

 

 

 

It certainly sounds to me that, if people are concerned over CJD,

 

the wise thing to do would be to take a mineral supplement that

 

would assure them of adequate copper. They might also prevent

 

themselves from getting gray hair that way, as I've heard Dr.

 

Joel Wallach, the " dead-doctors-don't-lie " man, say that gray

 

hair is the result of copper deficiency.

 

 

 

Purdey further reports that researchers at Case Western

 

University in Cleveland analyzed brain tissue from victims of

 

CJD. These brain tissues, compared to control brains, reportedly

 

contained a ten-fold higher level of manganese and a 50 percent

 

reduced level of copper -- and the manganese was bonded to the

 

abnormal prions in these CJD tissues.

 

 

 

Political hay

 

 

 

The fanatic vegetarians of course like to use this fear in the

 

service of their cause but it is wrong to promote anything on

 

false premises. Let vegetarianism be promoted by whatever

 

truthful arguments can be mustered up for it, not by false

 

theories of the cause of spongiform encephelopathy diseases.

 

 

 

Riddle solved "

 

 

 

So it looks like the riddle of what causes these spongiform

 

encephelopathy diseases is essentially solved. It's a form of

 

manganese poisoning that can occur in the presence of a copper

 

deficiency.

 

 

 

Purdey has some further refinements to add to the picture. For

 

instance, what about the Phosmet Purdey initially suspected as

 

the cause of mad cow disease "

 

 

 

Purdey found that Phosmet chelates copper out of the bodies of

 

the cattle, thus leading to the copper deficiency that then

 

allowed mad cow disease to develop. There are organophosphate

 

pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers humans use for various

 

purposes that can have a similar effect on us.

 

 

 

More observations in support of the OP/copper/manganese

 

hypothesis

 

 

 

Purdey says Britain had the highest rate of mad cow disease

 

because of the compulsory warble fly eradication program that

 

required all farmers to treat their cattle with high doses of

 

systemic Phosmet applied along the spine. Other countries that

 

experienced some outbreak of the disease but not as much as

 

Britain either did not have such a compulsory program or used the

 

organophosphates in lower doses or non-systemically.

 

 

 

Another product Purdey implicates in mad cow disease is

 

artificial milk substitute often fed to calves, which have up to

 

1,000 times the level of manganese found in natural cow's milk.

 

 

 

Purdey observed that the mad cow, CJD and CWD cluster areas all

 

were subject either to frequent sonic shocks or very high levels

 

of ultraviolet light.

 

 

 

Copper is used in wires as an efficient conductor of electricity;

 

manganese is used in batteries to store electricity. Purdey

 

hypothesizes that the normal prion protein, bonded to copper,

 

facilitates a smooth flow of the energy brought into the nervous

 

system via sound and light. Conversely, when manganese

 

substitutes for copper, energy would have a tendency to be stored

 

rather than allowed to flow. This could result in explosive

 

releases of energy, thereby progressively deteriorating the brain

 

tissues in the spongiform pattern.

 

 

 

It's quite an ingenious explanation. I haven't heard the

 

proponents of the official theory advance a scientifically viable

 

explanation as to why the rogue prion causes spongiform

 

deterioration of the brain.

 

 

 

Purdey also suspects the sonic shocks from supersonic airplanes

 

could be altering the magnetic qualities of manganese in such a

 

way as to promote an even more rapid degeneration of the brain

 

tissues.

 

 

 

The kuru copper connection

 

 

 

Another case that is frequently mentioned in discussions of mad

 

cow disease, is the disease called " kuru " that has afflicted many

 

members of the Fore tribe in New Guinea.

 

 

 

Being essentially the same as CJD, kuru is always attributed to

 

traditions of cannibalism specific to these people.

 

 

 

The public readily accepts this explanation since cannibalism is

 

morally and emotionally repugnant to most people and, therefore,

 

it seems a sort of divine or poetic justice that it would lead to

 

a horrible disease like kuru.

 

 

 

It's sort of similar to the way sodomy is repugnant to people of

 

normal sexual desires, and so some see it as a sort of divine or

 

poetic justice that it's practice be blamed for transmitting

 

AIDS.

 

 

 

However, Purdey observed that many other New Guinea tribes were

 

cannibals but only the Fore were getting kuru.

 

 

 

Curiously, the Fore people had been cannibals for centuries but

 

had only started getting kuru after World War II. Purdey traveled

 

there to examine the environment, and found the local soils

 

deficient in copper.

 

 

 

Manganese/aluminum alloy and kuru-type madness

 

 

 

Completing the picture, during World War II some Japanese

 

airplanes had crashed in the area. The Fore people had made

 

utensils and cooking pots from the manganese-aluminum metal they

 

salvaged from these airplanes -- a likely source of manganese

 

poisoning.

 

 

 

Purdey also found that a cluster of CJD cases had developed in

 

the Fuji River valley in Japan, downwind from the factory where

 

the manganese-aluminum panels for these airplanes were

 

manufactured, where the atmosphere was tainted with

 

manganese-laden emissions from the factory smokestacks.

 

 

 

Dissidence deadlier than disease

 

 

 

Science these days is inevitably entangled with politics, and

 

Purdey found that in advancing his perspective on the true cause

 

of mad cow disease, he evidently displeased some powerful

 

political interests. His house burned down. His lawyer, who had

 

helped him with his court case against the government's mandatory

 

Phosmet program and his veterinarian, who was assisting in his

 

research, both died in strange auto accidents. Attempts were made

 

to slander and discredit him morally and professionally.

 

 

 

What political interests would want to interfere with his efforts

 

to bring some objective science to the question of the cause of

 

mad cow disease "

 

 

 

The chemical industry that makes $billions from organophosphate

 

sales would well have an interest in not having these chemicals

 

linked to causing outbreaks of prion diseases.

 

 

 

Slaughter the animals, kill the family farm

 

 

 

Purdey also sees an interest of corporate farming here: Massive,

 

multinational corporations such as Arthur Daniels Midland are

 

putting vast acreages of farmland worldwide under cultivation.

 

They are growing genetically engineered grains, vegetables,

 

fruits and legumes heavily treated with chemical pesticides and

 

chemical fertilizers.

 

 

 

Their competition is traditional family farmers who raise crops

 

and livestock without chemicals. If word got out that global

 

madness through mutated prions was linked to genetically

 

engineered crops treated with OPs, multinational corporate

 

agribusiness would suffer a public relations disaster from which

 

it may never recover.

 

 

 

It would well suit these agribusiness interests to put

 

traditional family farmers out of business. Since there is no

 

science to support the mass slaughter of infected animals, it is

 

logical to suspect that public fear of eating contaminated meat

 

or is nurtured in the press to justify government slaughter

 

programs. Rather than exterminating the rogue prions, government

 

slaughter programs are helping to exterminate agribusiness'

 

competition: The family farmer.

 

 

 

Big Brother implications

 

 

 

The official theory also furnishes a convenient rationale to

 

mandate electronic tagging and tracking of all livestock via

 

microchips. Developing the livestock surveillance infrastructure

 

lays the groundwork for applying such a surveillance system to

 

people.

 

 

 

Chemical/copper connection known for half a century

 

 

 

In an article entitled " The Grammar of BSE Panic " in the

 

February, 2004 edition of " Acres U.S.A. " we find these words:

 

 

 

" Writing some 50 years ago in SOIL, GRASS & CANCER " Andre Voisin

 

noted how certain chemicals interfered with the uptake of copper

 

even when that nutrient was available in the pastures.

 

 

 

" He called this 'disease' epizootic ataxia. It sounds like bovine

 

spongiform encephelopathy to us, and the university-blessed

 

grinding of cats, dogs, cows, chickens and horses to make

 

cattle-cake was not even a blip on the radar screen at that

 

time...After England experienced BSE cases in animals, now

 

identified by prions bent out of shape, the defenders of

 

toxic-genetic chemicals postulated an infectious disease agent of

 

some sort and resultant transmissibility.

 

 

 

" The answer was to shoot herds and to construct a theory with a

 

politically-correct etiology. The only rule seemed to be, 'Do not

 

implicate phosphate factories spewing their pollution into the

 

ambient air, and never, never indict Phosmet poured on animal

 

spines...There are several chemical agents quite capable of

 

turning a brain into a sponge. Mercury and Minimata disease come

 

to mind. "

 

 

 

Official story does not pass basic scientific muster

 

 

 

In the same publication indicated above, a letter from the

 

Minnesota COACT organization (www.coact.org) said, " BSE fails to

 

fulfill what is known as 'Koch's postulates' -- the yardstick for

 

gauging whether a given disease stems from infectious origins.

 

Briefly, they are

 

 

 

1. The causal agent is found in all symptomatic animals;

 

 

 

2. The causal agent is not found with other diseases; and

 

 

 

3. The causal agent can be isolated and cultured, then reproduced

 

in a susceptible host. "

 

 

 

COACT also noted that, " A BSE prion is a protein particle that

 

does not contain DNA or RNA. "

 

 

 

So without any DNA or RNA how does one of these bloody things

 

jump off your hamburger and into your body and so it can madly

 

replicate itself until your brain has been turned into a sponge "

 

 

 

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Comments

 

 

 

Since the powers-that-be have an interest in maintaining the

 

rogue prion theory as the cause of mad cow disease in public

 

perception, you won't hear of Purdey's work being reported in the

 

dominant media.

 

 

 

But what Purdey says makes sense and his theories are supported

 

by 50 years of published science where the official theory would

 

not pass a high school biology test. So I've put on my

 

journalist's hat and have written this to do my bit to get the

 

word out to the public, because that's the only way we can hope

 

to get the truth out.

 

 

 

Thomas Jefferson said, " If the people lead, then eventually the

 

leaders will follow. "

 

 

 

If we can make the truth about mad cow disease common enough

 

knowledge amongst the general public, then the authorities of the

 

scientific world will finally accept it.

 

 

 

Unfortunately though, if that happens, the authorities of the

 

scientific world will not give Purdey the credit he deserves but

 

will claim to have discovered it themselves: " Can't allow the

 

peasants to think they can do anything important. "

 

 

 

It's like 75 years ago the health nuts were saying you could

 

prevent cancer by eating a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables.

 

The medical authorities debunked it and said your diet had

 

nothing to do with whether or not you got cancer. But the health

 

nuts kept on, and eventually the general public came to

 

understand the relationship between diet and cancer that the

 

medical authorities have suddenly discovered you can reduce your

 

risk of cancer by eating a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables.

 

 

 

But they cite their own studies in support of this radical

 

concept and do not give the health nuts of 75 years ago any

 

credit for having known it all along.

 

 

 

One problem with communicating Purdey's perspective is that it

 

takes a little bit of study to understand it. The official theory

 

is very easy to understand and emotionally grabbing. " They're

 

feeding rotten meat to cows that are supposed to eat grass! "

 

Which I agree is not the right thing to do, but that doesn't

 

prove it's really the cause of mad cow disease.

 

 

 

Purdey's writing by contrast is fairly technical and I had to

 

read it through about six times before I understood it. Not many

 

people will bother to do that. Although, since I'm just a high

 

school dropout and not very bright, most people wouldn't have to

 

study it near as much as I did to understand it. So I've written

 

this to try to put Purdey's perspective in as plain and simple

 

language as I can to try to help more people understand it.

 

 

 

So, if you think this article is saying something true and

 

important, HELP GET THE WORD OUT! Make more copies of this, put

 

it up on websites, email it or snail mail it to as many people as

 

you can. And, of course, it would be great if you'd read Purdey's

 

work for yourself and don't depend just on me for your

 

understanding of it.

 

 

 

The difference between us and the dominant media is that we do

 

the best we can to tell each other the truth so we can make the

 

most of our lives and raise our children in a decent world

 

whereas the dominant media engages psychological warfare against

 

you, in order to deceive and mislead you into supporting its big

 

business advertisers. (DWH)

 

 

 

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You can read Purdey's work for yourself at his website, which is

 

http://www.markpurdey.com/articles_educatingrida_4.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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