Quotes about Cattle Industry from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "When interviewed by the Boston Globe about how our situation impacted the cattle industry's ability to export more cattle to Europe, Detwiler admitted it would be greatly enhanced if our sheep were destroyed. "Being able to say there is no hint of mad cow disease in U.S. livestock is a big selling point. It would be in a lot of people's interest," she said.
The USDA had thought they could contrive some test data and we would roll over and surrender the animals."- Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.) "Indeed, the USDA has equated the welfare of the cattle industry with that of the nation: "The high stakes involved mandate very conservative measures if there is a possibility of the sheep being infected with the BSE agent," Alfonso Torres, deputy USDA administrator, told the Faillaces [the Vermont flock owners] in a letter this spring. "This is a case in which the welfare of our nation must be placed above any other consideration." Conveniently, "further testing, which will take several years, is required to determine which type of TSE has infected these sheep." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.) |
 "The rate of defects in the cattle industry is one in 500,000, or 100 times less than that experienced in the human population. In contrast, a cursory assessment of the nutritional resources available to human progeny and their counterparts in the animal kingdom discloses some rather disconcerting facts.
• Questionable Human Standards
Of all the commercial infant food formulas available on the grocery store shelves, none currently has more than twelve minerals available as a constituent of the basic ingredients. Science Diet dog food has no less than forty."- Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.) |
 "A Flawed Detection System in the United States
Given all that I have learned about BSE, its symptoms, and the devastating effect it can have on the cattle industry, I have to ask myself: Does anyone really think if a farmer or veterinarian actually observed cattle displaying odd behavior that they would report this to the proper authorities? I think not. They would be well aware of the consequences of their actions, and could quickly be made the scapegoats in bringing down a multi-billion dollar industry."- Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) |
 "The millions of pounds of chicken litter (feces, feathers and all) scraped off the floors of chicken houses are recycled as cattle feed. The cattle industry considers this "good protein." The other ingredients of cattle feed consist of ground-up parts of animals, such as deceased chickens, pigs and horses. According to the industry, giving the cattle natural, healthy feeds would be far too costly and so unnecessary. Who really cares what the meat is made of, as long as it looks like meat?"- Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) |
 "For example, the herbivorous cow has been fed the flesh of other dead cows, mixed in with its feed, for at least a century by the cattle industry. Cows still continue to survive on such food. Yet, an omnivorist would argue that the cow is no longer an herbivore, but is now an omnivore, because it can eat something aside from common grass. Almost any animal, can eat just about any type of so-called "food," and still live, but that does not mean it has
"evolutionarily adapted to," or is designed for, that food.
Every natural species can tolerate a vast amount of improper food (fuel)."- David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.) |
 "The European Union has decided that member countries should stop adding antibiotics to feed by 2006, yet the FDA is still dragging its feet; it has not forbidden any drug additives and has said it will only consider banning new drugs on a case by case basis.
The cattle industry has successfully fought tough regulations for years and seems to still hold sway over regulators. The USDA backed a two-year delay in implementing a plan to label meat with its country of origin, which Congress passed in 2002. The delay came in response to complaints from meat processors and supermarkets."- Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) |
 "Overall, the government seemed to be acting on behalf of the cattle industry rather than protecting public health. Reinforcing a familiar theme in this book, the Lancet blamed the secret ways in which government and expert committees operate—and the lack of public accountability—for the failure of government to do something to stop mad cow disease and prevent its transmission to people. It pointed to "the weaknesses of separating agricultural and medical science, and of allowing one Government department to protect the interests of both the food consumers and the farming industry."- Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.) |
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