Another Domino Effect of Mad Cow Disease

[Guest guest]

Greetings Members:

 

While we are all aware of the denial that some of our family members

and friends are in who consume the " SAD " (Standard American Diet) and

the rejection that we receive from them, sometimes as long and we

keep talking and presenting the facts, someone may finally listen to

you. This is another one of those articles that you print and just

leave lying around someplace to be read. You never know.

 

Mad Cow in Blood & Milk

 

An editorial in today's British Medical Journal

(Jan. 17, 04, 328:118-119) calls for an urgent action

to prevent the spread of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob

disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease--

through blood transfusions.

 

In December of 2003, England's Secretary of Health

announced that a case of Mad Cow Disease had been

passed from a human blood donor to a human blood

recipient.

 

What took England so long to announce this truth?

The blood donation was made in 1996. It took three

years for the recipient to become ill, and die.

 

In the United States, it is illegal to donate blood

if an individual has visited or lived in England for

a period greater than one month.

 

Each day, a typical dairy cow filters 10,000 quarts of

blood through her udder. The average quart of milk sold

in America in 2003 contained 322 million dead white

blood cells.

 

The infectious particle causing Cows to become " mad "

and human brains to turn into sponges, is called a

Prion. Prions cannot be destroyed by pasteurization.

Laboratory tests have demonstrated that Prions

survive when exposed to temperatures in excess

of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

Doesn't it stand to reason that if Mad Cow Disease

can be passed from human to human through blood, then

it can also be passed from cow to human in blood?

And, if milk is actually white blood, should we

continue to drink body fluids from diseased animals?

 

The average dairy cow in America produces 24 quarts

of milk each day. That's 8,760 quarts per year. That's

nearly three trillion blood cells. What plague

potential!

 

The one dairy cow infected with Mad Cow Disease from a

Washington herd, whose milk was pooled with 3,000

others from that same herd, had the potential to

infect every American thousands of times over. Her " pooled "

milk was distributed on the West Coast. Her infected milk

was made into cheese and butter and ice cream, and shipped

from the West Coast to the East Coast, and to all points

in between.

 

What can you do?

Wait.

Hope for the best.

In 20 years (the incubation period) you will know

whether you have been infected.

 

On Monday of this week, USDA quietly declared a State

of Emergency in the State of Washington by publishing

notice in the Congressional Record (01/12/04). As of

today, six hundred cows have been euthanized. Tests

of their brains are ongoing. Many herds have been

quarantined.

 

If and when you or a relative or friend is diagnosed

with vCJD, loved ones will remark, " Nobody warned me. "

Sure they did.

You just were not listening.

You continued to eat the pizza.

You continued to slurp the ice cream.

Many gourmets describe the experience of eating these

foods as " a taste to die for. "

 

Robert Cohen

http://www.notmilk.com