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"BSE already existed and that it manifests itself as a "downer cow" disease rather than as "mad cow" disease as found in the United Kingdom. When Dr. Marsh undertook these experiments in 1985, the prion theory was just that—a theory. Scientists had first identified prions in the 1970s, however, it was not until about 1987 that prions were connected to BSE or any of the TSE diseases. The British government, as well as all Tenderers internationally, assumed that rendering destroys this disease. Who Disposed of the Diseased Animals? Seven thousand mink died at this ranch in Wisconsin." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"But every year about a hundred thousand cows in this country die mysteriously of what is known as downer cow Syndrome. These cows-like the steers in Marsh's experiment-look fine one day and drop over dead the next. I saw this happen many times on my operation in Montana, far more often in the feedlot cattie than in the grass-fed breeding cows. Since slaughterhouses don't accept animals unless they arrive alive and ambulatory, I would typically—like other feedlot operators-sell my downer cows to the renderer And so they were undoubtedly coming back to my feedlot and others in the form of feed." - Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer, MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat (Get the book.) "It seemed to me then, and it seems to me now, at least possible that a BSE-like disease might be one of the factors involved in downer cow Syndrome. The difference between the symptoms of American downer cows and British mad cows could possibly be explained by different strains of scrapie in the two countries. Catde injected with U.S. strains of scrapie develop a neurological disorder, but their brains don't display the spongiform nature characteristic of BSE cows in Britain. I'd hate to think that we in the States might handle the problem the way it's been handled in Great Britain." - Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer, MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat (Get the book.) "The presence of downer cow Syndrome across America is certaiidy cause for concern. To date, our govemment has not responded to requests to step up its surveillance of downer cows, and conduct autopsies of their brains. Numbers of CJD cases have not, to my knowledge, risen notably across the United States in recent years, but it's possible that an increase could be masked by an overlap in symptomatology between CJD and Alzheimer's disease, which is markedly on the rise. Often CJD is conftised with other ftjrms of dementia." - Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer, MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat (Get the book.)

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