Mad Cow Disease Caused by Milk - ( Japan Times)

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Mad Cow Disease Caused by Milk

 

Thursday, January 30, 2003 8:24 AM

NOTMILK - Mad Cow Disease Caused by Milk

 

 

> Yesterday (January 29, 2003), the Japan Times revealed

> a story that now becomes stage one of Japan's worst

> nightmare. The etiology of Mad Cow Disease in Japan

> has been traced to a milk-based feed given to

> dairy cows.

>

> The infectious protein fibril (prion) responsible

> for Mad Cow Disease may have an incubation period

> of up to 40 years. Japan now waits for the human

> form to appear in their population, just as it did

> in Great Britain.

>

> <http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030129a9.htm>

>

> This news should come as no surprise. After all, milk

> is actually white blood, and scientists suspect that

> blood transmits Mad Cow Disease. In order to insure

> the safety of America's blood supply, the Food and

> Drug Administration now prohibits the giving of

> blood in America if the donor has lived in England for

> 3 months or more. FDA scientists recognize that blood

> is a means of transmission. So is milk. That has now

> been confirmed.

>

> Each day, a typical dairy cow filters 10,000 liters of

> her own blood through her udder. The udder captures

> blood cells and other blood proteins. In 2002, the

> average liter of milk sold in America contained 322

> million dead white blood cells.

>

> In 1997, during the middle of England's Mad Cow Disease

> panic, many British meat eaters turned vegetarian. On

> August 23, 1997, the London Times revealed that a

> 24-year-old vegetarian had been diagnosed with

> Cruetzfeld-Jacob Disease, the human form of Mad Cow

> Disease. Scientists believed that milk or cheese was

> the source of infection.

>

> Virgil Hulse, M.D., wrote in Mad Cows and Milkgate:

>

> " The destruction of milk from suspected cows was recommended

> in England to insure the public's safety...Experiments also

> indicate that temperatures reached during pasteurization of

> milk and household cooking does not kill the agent. In the

> United Kingdom on December 1, 1988 the government

> announced a ban on the sale of milk from infected cattle... "

>

> The journal Dairy Science (Volume 81:11) reported:

>

> " The outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (Mad Cow

> Disease) has had major impacts on the United Kingdom dairy

> industry, including the loss of beef from dairy markets,

> the culling of more than 900,000 dairy bull calves, the

> removal of all cattle more than 30 months of age from the

> human food chain, and now slaughter of cohort animals. Impacts

> on dairy marketing have yet to be properly assessed. "

>

> Robert Cohen

> http://www.notmilk.com

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