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"In 1996, ten people died in England due to a new strain of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD, the human equivalent of bse), which the British government linked to eating meat from cows infected with bse. CJD has now killed a total of 100 people in Britain.26 Researchers at Yale University suggest the disease is capable of mutating into different forms. They also speculate that CJD/BSE might be more widespread than originally thought. bse first started showing up in England in the mid-eighties. In 1988, the government required that all cattle showing symptoms of bse be destroyed." - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"Natural animal insulins were highly purified and posed no significant threat of bse. Human insulin that was originally cultured in a beef medium containing components was also highly purified. Neither posed any risk of exposure to bse. Yet the importation of synthetic insulins by Novo and Aventis was unheralded, while the FDA repeatedly reminded individuals of the risks they were taking by importing animal insulins. Hypocrisy? Discrimination? Or just callous disregard for diabetic lives?" - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Described by the microbiologist Professor Richard Lacey as "fake meat," much of what is for sale in supermarkets and butcher's shops contains growth hormones, antibiotics, and pesticide residues and, at worst, could be infected with bse. BSE—is it a serious risk? The infectious agent thought to be responsible for bse is called a prion. It latches on to proteins in the brain, changing them and thereby triggering disease. It is now proven to pass from species to species and into humans." - Patrick Holford, The New Optimum Nutrition Bible (Get the book.)

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised that, at a bare minimum, the feeding of ruminants to ruminants had to be outlawed in order to prevent an outbreak of bse. On August 4, 1997, almost a year and a half after the FDA promised a speedy response to the threat of mad cow, new animal feed restrictions took effect. "The United States has no bse," the agency declared, "and the final rule provides the necessary feed controls . . . should bse occur here." The FDA described its new ban as "mammalian-to-ruminant, with exceptions." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

"BSE contamination could be totally eliminated in the production cell transfer and purification process. Despite the fact that equal claims for the purity of natural insulins could be made, the FDA continues to use bse scare tactics to prevent importation of natural insulins. Their endorsement of "uncontaminated" synthetic products merely added another layer of protection for the pharmaceuticals. The omission of informing the public about the purity of animal insulins was not an oversight." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"This disease has similar pathology to Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease (CJD) found in humans. In bse the brain takes on a spongy appearance, as it is full of holes. Similar spongy appearing brain tissues can be found in many animal disease. Some of these diseases appear to be caused by infectious particles called prions. In 1997 the FDA banned the feeding of cattle parts to cattle but cattle were still permitted to eat horses and pig protein. Pigs eating scrapie (prion) infected sheep could still infect cows with bse. What Should Beef Lovers Do? One solution is to become a vegetarian." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Once a week do a more thorough check: bse position 7 in the shower, bse positions 1-6 after drying off. Several times a year do breast self-massage and go on a journey to visit your Wise Healer Within. If you do all that, you can forget monthly checks. What's the least amount of bse I can do and still take care of myself? The average doctor spends less than two minutes—and only once a year-examining your breasts. If you only check your breasts once a year, but spend 20 minutes on it, you'll receive 1000% better care than if you rely on "professional" attention." - Susun S. Weed, Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way (Get the book.)

"However, it has not been attributed to the new variant form of CJD, which is what happened when bse broke loose in the United Kingdom. These hunters died of what is classified as the sporadic form of CJD, which occurs in about one in a million people. Government officials feel that these deaths were not caused by the hunters eating meat from the deer or elk they hunted, which might have had CWD. Instead, government officials maintain that the hunters died from a naturally occurring form of CJD." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"Caiman's residency as CMO was beset with controversies, which included the bse crisis, the biased CMO Report on myal-gic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome,11 and the beginning of the row over MMR, as well as the government support for banning vitamin B6. Caiman has served on the executive board of the World Health Organisation and the European Environment and Health Committee." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"The United States has no bse," the agency declared, "and the final rule provides the necessary feed controls . . . should bse occur here." The FDA described its new ban as "mammalian-to-ruminant, with exceptions." Dead sheep, goats, cattle, deer, mink, elk, dogs, and cats could no longer be fed to cattle." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

"This exam requires more skill than a skin self-exam (detailed later), so you might wish to have a clinician coach you on how to do a proper bse. Menstruating women should do a bse two or three days after the period ends, when the breasts are least likely to be tender or swollen. Here is an effective seven-step method for BSE:2 1. Stand before a mirror and inspect both breasts. Look for anything unusual, such as nipple discharge or skin puckering, dimpling, or scaling. Notice the normal size and shape of each breast and the normal position of the nipple." - Richard Harkness, The Natural Pharmacist: Your Complete Guide to Reducing Cancer Risk (Get the book.)

"Another important conclusion about bse, no matter what theory you follow as its cause, is that forced cannibalistic practices in our livestock must be stopped. The United States must follow Europe's example and stop the feeding of all mammalian proteins to ruminants, which are natural vegetarians. We would like to meet with [USDA] Ag Secretary Ann Veneman to further ideas outlined in House Resolution 12." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.) "Everyone wanted to know if the United States had bse. When asked when the USDA would seize our sheep, Detwiler replied, "It will be a matter of days or weeks. We're not announcing it publicly." But it wasn't days or weeks. Wayne Zeilenga called me at 6:25 p.m. that very evening. "The USDA will be coming tomorrow," he said. When I asked for the exact time, he replied he was unable to answer any questions about when or how. He said he wanted to call because it was more personal, and he reminded me of when he brought the quarantine papers and gave them to us in person, not through the mail." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"Pigs eating scrapie (prion) infected sheep could still infect cows with bse. What Should Beef Lovers Do? One solution is to become a vegetarian. The other is to find a cattle rancher who will grow cattle by grazing and who refused to implant hormones and use antibiotics or pesticide contaminated feed. Such a rancher deserves to be paid a premium price for his meat which is safe to eat. This meat has high levels of the desired Omega 3 fatty acids and 5 times more of healthy conjugated linoleic acid than feedlot cattle." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Ann Veneman continued talking on CSPAN about how great the USDA was and how the United States was free of bse because of their "stringent firewalls in place." I walked out of the room, disgusted. I didn't want to hear any more. The cover story for the April 30,2001, Wall Street Journal featured Dr. Mary Jo Schmerr and her blood test. Dr. Schmerr claimed "her superiors were obstructing her research by limiting her travel and collaboration with other scientists, and even belittling her." Dr." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"They also speculate that CJD/BSE might be more widespread than originally thought. bse first started showing up in England in the mid-eighties. In 1988, the government required that all cattle showing symptoms of bse be destroyed. Then, in 1989, the British government banned the feeding of rendered animal parts to cows. In spite of these warning signs and recent outbreaks of mad cow disease, U.S. agriculture still permits the feeding of rendered animal parts to cattle, claiming that U.S. cattle are "safe" from the disease. Of the approximately 44 million beef cattle in the U.S." - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"Scrapie is a disease of sheep that is related to bse in cattle. In addition, there is strong evidence that the outbreak in cattle was amplified in the United Kingdom by feeding rendered bovine meat-and-bone meal to young calves. BSE has now been reported in cattle throughout Europe, and a third case was reported in Canada in January 2005. In the United States, a single case was reported in December 2003, and wild game, such as deer and elk, have been affected with a similar disease known as chronic wasting disease (CWD)." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"On the surface this would seem reassuring, however, the number of cattle brains tested for bse is quite limited compared to the number of cattle slaughtered in any given time period. The Public Citizen, an organization that investigates problems within the government, notes, "In 2000, approximately 2,300 brains were tested out of 35 million cattle slaughtered."18 This is indeed a small percentage tested of the total animals slaughtered. As of July 2001 the National Agriculture Statistics Services estimated that there was a total of 105.8 million head of cattle and calves in the United States." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) "Peter Mueller, a company representative, replied to my inquiry stating, "No decision was so far made by the American authorities concerning a bse surveillance program using rapid diagnostic kits."25 He went on to write that they are in constant contact with the American as well as the Canadian authorities, but it is apparent that a decision will not be made in the foreseeable future." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) "Other than the fact that the United States rendered far fewer sheep then the United Kingdom, it is possible that a different form of bse might be infecting cattle in the United States. Richard Marsh, DVM, undertook some revealing tests that validate this possibility, as described in the following sections. TSE in Mink There are other prion diseases that have not affected human health; however, they are diseases in animals to watch carefully. One of those is transmissible spongiform encephalophathy (TSE) in mink , which was first detected in the United States in 1947." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"Assemblyman Felix Ortiz and Assemblywoman Margaret Markey of the New York Legislature invited us to address the task force on Food, Farm, and Nutrition Policy about Emerging Food Related Diseases, and specifically to talk about bse and whether the actions the USDA was taking were strong enough to protect the American consumer. Ortiz and Markey sponsored the public hearing to discuss TSEs and the New York food supply. According to Felix Ortiz, "As the new chair of the task force on Food, Farm, and Nutrition Policy, I want all New Yorkers to have a healthy, affordable, food supply." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"Once a week do a more thorough check: bse position 7 in the shower, bse positions 1-6 after drying off. Several times a year do breast self-massage and go on a journey to visit your Wise Healer Within. If you do all that, you can forget monthly checks. What's the least amount of bse I can do and still take care of myself? The average doctor spends less than two minutes—and only once a year-examining your breasts. If you only check your breasts once a year, but spend 20 minutes on it, you'll receive 1000% better care than if you rely on "professional" attention." - Susun S. Weed, Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way (Get the book.)

"Neither posed any risk of exposure to bse. Yet the importation of synthetic insulins by Novo and Aventis was unheralded, while the FDA repeatedly reminded individuals of the risks they were taking by importing animal insulins. Hypocrisy? Discrimination? Or just callous disregard for diabetic lives? Other products that come from cows including, heparin, tryptophan, parathyroid hormone, thrombin, glucagon (used to treat hypoglycemia), trypsin, pancratin, and gelatin are all no-hassle products delivered to U.S. citizens." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Its weirdest decision was to block a private meatpacking company, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, from doing its own bse testing. Creekstone used to have a lively market in Japan, but was losing about $200,000 a day in export sales due to the Japanese ban on American beef. In the hope of reopening this market, the company built a laboratory to test all of its cattle scheduled for slaughter, whether young or old. The USDA refused to allow the company to use the laboratory for this purpose." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "It took three more years, until 2000, for the United States to ban imports of meat-and-bone meal from countries that had not been testing their cattle for bse. In 2003, when one cow in Canada and another in the United States were found to have mad cow disease, Japan and numerous other countries immediately banned imports of beef from both countries. Early in 2004, to protect the beef export market, the USDA finally required beef producers to take some of the additional precautionary measures that seemed so obvious to scientists and food safety advocates." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "I abels of meat packages that say as well as cows—is called bse. The l_ "all vegetable diet," "no animal by-related human disease is called vari- products," or "no animal cannibalism" ant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD). were put there to reassure you that the Prion diseases also occur in many animals were never exposed to mad cow other animals; in sheep, for example, disease, and that you will not be exposed it is called "scrapie." These diseases to it either. occur spontaneously—with no appar- ^^^^^^^^H^^MHI^^^^^^^^H ent cause —in older animals or humans." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"New variant" Creutzfeldt-Jalcob disease lias strain characteristics distinct from other types of CJD and which resemble those of bse transmitted to mice, domestic cat and macaque, consistent with bse being the source of this new disease. • ^atllre |i?)6::i?(6(i02):(i8r>-6i)(l Responding to claims of the safety of British beef in the wake of the bse outbreak in that country, the United Kingdom medical chief suggested that "safe" does not necessarily mean "no risk." - Vicki B., PhD Griffin, Virgil, MD Husle, Dane J. Griffin, MOOOOve Over Milk - The Udder Side of Dairy (Get the book.)

"The first person to be prosecuted under the Act was Oprah Winfrey, for comments made on one of her programmes about bse and beef production. Winfrey was found not guilty and the beef producers incurred enormous costs, as well as dire embarrassment. In the UK, where there is not the same open legal market as there is in North America, there has been no legal backlash against the health-damaging effects of toxic corporations." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"New variant" Creutzfeldt-Jalcob disease lias strain characteristics distinct from other types of CJD and which resemble those of bse transmitted to mice, domestic cat and macaque, consistent with bse being the source of this new disease. • ^atllre |i?)6::i?(6(i02):(i8r>-6i)(l Responding to claims of the safety of British beef in the wake of the bse outbreak in that country, the United Kingdom medical chief suggested that "safe" does not necessarily mean "no risk." - Vicki B., PhD Griffin, Virgil, MD Husle, Dane J. Griffin, MOOOOve Over Milk - The Udder Side of Dairy (Get the book.)

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