Catching up!/ Mad Cow Disease

[Guest guest]

If you read Howard Lyman's book " Mad Cowboy: Plain truth from the

cattle racher who won't eat meat " he even cites an instance when a

teenage lacto-ovo vegetarian died of the CJ (human mad cow) disease.

Howard suggested that this might have come from milk of an infected

cow, especially considering there's pus in milk. However, I am

skeptical about drawing such a conclusion from one case. My guess is

that either this vegetarian ate contaminated beef before going veggie

(which is quite plausible considering that CJ can lie dormant in

someone for up to 30 years!) or that this person was one of

those " vegetarians " who doesn't mind eating soup with beef broth.

Hell, maybe this poor kid unknowingly ate Mc Donald's beef laden

fries. I don't know, but it makes me glad I am vegan and a bit

worried I didn't go veggie sooner.

 

When Howard Lyman investigated the " public " health records for any

possible cases of CJ disease around a decade ago he found one case in

which a person was suspected of dying of CJ disease (it's difficult

for doctors to say for sure even after autopsy because the disease is

somewhat similar to Alzheimer's). But in order to take the record

out of the " public " file to make copies one must first submit all the

records of interest to someone for approval. So Howard put the

suspected CJ case file in a big stack of other medical files and

turned it in for approval. When he got the stack of records the CJ

one was missing.

 

At this point I'd advise anyone who values their life to stay away

from all beef. But of course no one will listen. And they'll throw

away the carcasses of cows suspected of infection, cover up any cases

of CJ, and tell people it's safe.

 

 

, " Ian W Rudge " <ianr@i...>

wrote:

> > i keep reading that the meat from the cow with mad cow

> > is ok to eat, that only the brain, spinal cord, and

> > intestines carry the disease

>

> At the height of the UK's BSE scare, it was reckoned that any meat

> " next to the bone " could potentially be infected, and so cuts

> containing bone were banned.