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"In the book, Mad Cowboy, former cattle rancher, Howard Lyman details that mad cow disease stems from the feeding concoctions of dead cows and other animals in the factory farms to the living cows. When those living cows are slaughtered and eaten, they pass the mad cow disease on to humans. When one eats the flesh of tortured animals, or the milk of dairy cows, or eggs from factory chickens, one also ingests the fear, the pain, the exhaustion and the sorrow of those beings. These energies manifest within the consumer in the form of negative attitudes, depression and illness." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"This is what is thought to have caused mad cow disease, the human variant of which is expected to kill many people in the next 15-20 years, due to its long latency period. Will we see "mad chicken disease" emerge in future years as well, since many livestock chickens are fed dead chickens? These poor livestock animals are also drugged with steroids and antibiotics in addition to being forced to eat an unnatural diet of inferior food full of pesticides and herbicides. Some of the pesticide and herbicide residues from all the plant food the animal ever ate are concentrated in its fats." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"For obvious reasons—like concerns with viruses like mad cow disease—no one is using or selling PS from bovine sources anymore. The PS now on the market as a supplement comes from soy, and there is a huge controversy over whether it's as effective. Phosphatidylserine is basically a serine molecule attached to some fat, and the fat in a cow's brain is 7 percent omega-3, which is what the serine molecule likes to bind to. There's no omega-3 in the soy." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"In the meantime, the prevailing thought among British officials was that the chance of a person contracting mad cow disease was so remote that it could be ignored so long as the human SBO ban was in effect. A Siamese cat, however, would rattle that complacency. Mad Max In December 1989, Jacqueline Stone of Bristol, in Avon County, southwest England, noticed something wrong with her five-year-old neutered male Siamese. While standing, Max would nod his head from side to side, as if he were about to doze off." - Philip Yam, The Pathological Protein: mad cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases (Get the book.)

"Until we stop the transformation of cattie into carnivores, until we can be 100 percent sure that they are no longer consuming the blood and fecal material of their own species and the meat and bonemeal of any other animal, the risks of mad cow disease and a consequent human epidemic of CJD will be with us. Are we destined to follow in the shameful footsteps of Britain?" - Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer, MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat (Get the book.) "In January 1998, a jiuy was convened in AmariUo, Texas, to determine, among other things, whether my statements deviated from "reasonable and reliable scientific inquiry, fact, or data"-a standard of proof that seems remarkably oblivious of the fact that disagreement has always existed within the scientific community itself on most matters of importance, and certainly exists now on the matter of mad cow disease. Controversy even erupted in nineteenth-century Hvingary when Dr." - Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer, MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat (Get the book.) "Finally, the August 1997 ban on feeding ruminants to ruminants, a necessary but insufficient measure to stave off the spread of mad cow disease to America, went into effect. Most of the media outiets in this country generate significant advertising revenues from the meat and dairy industries. After the Oprah show aired, I learned that the Beef Promotion Council pulled over six hundred thousand dollars' worth of network advertising. It's rare to find a media power player like Oprah, with the guts and the integrity to be willing to take on the big boys." - Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer, MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat (Get the book.) "In August 1997, in response to growing concern about the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (or mad cow disease), the FDA issued a new regulation that bans the feeding of ruminant protein (protein from cud-chewing animals) to ruminants; therefore, to the extent that the regulation is actually enforced, cattle are no longer quite the cannibals that we had made them into. They are no longer eating solid parts of other catde, or sheep, or goats." - Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer, MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, the first growth hormone available was obtained from human cadavers, and in the early years of therapy many growth hormone deficient-children contracted the equivalent of mad cow disease from injections of growth hormone from such sources. In the mid-1980s, bioidentical growth hormone was produced from recombinant DNA technology. Now safe, yet expensive, growth hormone is available by injection only. After its discovery in 1958, growth hormone was initially used only in children who failed to grow." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"CHAPTER 8 Consuming Fears Modem agriculture enables prions to adapt to a new host, creating the dread mad cow disease. Healthy Friesian dairy cows do not lose weight, drool, arch their backs, and menace the other cows. Clearly, something was wrong with Cow 133, but the symptoms baffled Peter Stent, who ran the Pitsham Farm in Sussex, in southern England. He called for help, and on December 22, 1984, a local veterinarian, David Bee, arrived for what would turn out to be the first of many examinations of the eight-year-old bovine." - Philip Yam, The Pathological Protein: mad cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases (Get the book.)

"But that was abandoned when it turned out that growth hormone taken from people had a major downside (in addition to cost)—and that was that it occasionally caused the human equivalent of mad cow disease. Not good, as they say. Fortunately, at around the same time it was determined that true Human Growth Hormone was not an acceptable alternative, recombinant DNA technology came into its own." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"These so-called slow viruses known as prions are made of proteins rather than DNA or RNA, as are most viruses, and cause such conditions as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, kuru, scrapie, and the infamous mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy). Prions were discovered by the American scientist Stanley Prusiner in the 1980s and have been found to cause spongiform encephalopathies?brain pathology marked by small holes in brain tissue." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Since the mad cow scare in 2003, production has more than doubled, with a 73 percent increase over the past year." Oregon Country Beef made a key move in 2004 when it made a deal with Burgerville, a Vancouver, Washington, chain that is dedicated to locally produced and sustainable foods, to produce all the beef for their hamburgers. Jack Graves, chief cultural officer for Burgerville, told the New York Times the chain was looking for a safe source of beef after the mad cow scare in 2003, and held back sales to give Oregon Country Beef time to meet Burgerville's demand of 35,000 pounds a week." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"The USDA also has cover-ups and denials about mad cow disease, fraudulent testing results of mad cow disease, massive caving in to the financial interests of industries like the sugar industry and a denial of the harmful effects of food preservatives like sodium nitrite and MSG. Gatekeepers of scientific "truth" These institutions ?the FDA, the USDA, med schools and scientific journals ?" - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Gabriel Cousens stated in a lecture that according to studies, 3-13% of what is diagnosed as Alzheimer's is actually mad cow disease. We also have "mad fish disease," "mad deer disease" and even "mad squirrel disease," although none of this is being reported officially. Spiritual Considerations Many people have chosen not to eat meat at all because they believe they can expand their consciousness by eating vegetarian diets. Living food indeed seems to have a higher spiritual vibration, imparting a vibratory advantage to the one who ingests it." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "These chickens are not fed other dead chickens or chicken excrement, so you don't have to worry about getting "mad chicken disease" in case that is later discovered to be a counterpart to mad cow disease, which reputedly arose from feeding infected, dead cows to live cattle. Free-range and vegan-fed chickens, especially those whose diets include flaxseeds, always yield the best eggs. They are higher in beneficial omega-3 fatty acids, as opposed to the more common omega-6 fatty acids. Furthermore, such eggs taste much, much more delicious." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "The practice of rendering is said to be responsible for mad cow disease. Who knows how many other mad animal diseases will be popping up? Also, kosher animals are guaranteed to have been healthy. As stated earlier, much of the meat we see at the grocery comes from very sick animals. If you can, get kosher meat from animals that have been fed organic plant food. Kevin Trudeau claims to have a source of organic kosher meat. If you join his web site for a small monthly fee at www.naturalcures.com, you can learn where to buy it. The web site www.eatwild." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The USDA also has cover-ups and denials about mad cow disease, fraudulent testing results of mad cow disease, massive caving in to the financial interests of industries like the sugar industry and a denial of the harmful effects of food preservatives like sodium nitrite and MSG. Gatekeepers of scientific "truth" These institutions ?the FDA, the USDA, med schools and scientific journals ?" - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Of course, the contamination of today's domesticated animal stocks with mad cow disease and other maladies has eliminated the option of eating animal brain and nervous tissue as sources of DHA. But wild game, organic beef, and grass-and pasture-fed animals have meats with more omega-3 fat than other meats available today. Many vegetarians supplement DHA produced from microalgae. The FDA recently approved a commercially available omega-3 fatty acid supplement (Lovaza, Reliant Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) at doses of 2,000 to 4,000 milligrams per day for treatment of high blood triglyceride levels." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Besides pus cells and blood, which are now normal in milk produced during machine suckling, the milk is also high in pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, hormones, radioactive iodine, and disease factors such as mad cow prion and bovine leukemia virus. In addition, research cited by Robert Cohen has made the point that there is up to a gallon of extra mucus in the body created as a result of drinking dairy. The mucus problem is associated with the fact that 87 percent of milk protein is casein, the main ingredient of Elmer's Glue." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Still, my chance of catching mad cow disease after eating that piece of processed meat is undoubtedly negligible, if even that much. I face much greater health risks in my everyday life, considering my habitual jaywalking and the bus fumes I inhale on Madison Avenue. And I would assuredly be worse off if I failed to go the dentist regularly. Yes, the risks are low—for now. As a man-made disaster, BSE proved that human activity can unpredictably alter the characteristics of prions so that they become dangerous to people." - Philip Yam, The Pathological Protein: mad cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases (Get the book.)

"Prions are most familiar to the public as the cause of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease. Energetic Terrain 5 Energetic Terrain 5 is associated bioenergetically with the skin and lungs and links to the energetic template of a btoad spectrum of viruses, including the many strains of human papilloma virus and the Bunyavirus family, particularly herpes-related and wart-related viruses. Energetic Terrain 6 The nose, throat, lungs, and bronchi are all host sites bioenergetically for Energetic Terrain 6." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Other Adrenal Supports Adrenal extracts are actual extracts of adrenal tissue obtained from pigs (porcine extract) or cows (bovine extract—most companies specify New Zealand bovine, since there are no mad cow disease possibilities from these sources). They contain adrenal nutrients as well as adrenal hormones and provide an effective remedy for low energy symptoms. I prescribe them frequently. Unlike horse estrogen (Premarin), the adrenal hormones in pigs and cows have the same structure as the hormones made by our bodies." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"It was quite an accomplishment, and, though the race isn't won (newly emerging viruses and prions, like those causing mad cow disease, still threaten), it's amazing to consider that the bubonic plague of the Middle Ages that killed a quarter of the world's population is something medicine can easily treat today. Fast-forward to 1942, when something new and distinctly different happened: the word stress first entered the medical lexicon as a way to refer to something purely psychological that also had profound physical effects." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"At the height of the U.K. mad cow epidemic, from 1993 to 1996, the United Kingdom exported 125 tons of meat and bone meal to Canada but so far the Canadian government advises that Canada is free of BSE. The Sunday Times in the United Kingdom reported that fifteen thousand tons of meat and bone meal were exported to France between 1988 and 1990. In February 1991 France saw its first case of BSE. As of December 2001, France has reported a total of 258 BSE cases and the disease is on the rise." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"TSE-related issues. Thrust in front of reporters, she had to explain why the USDA had moved in to "depopulate" two flocks of sheep in Vermont in March 2001, which were imported from Belgium and may have been exposed to contaminated feed. To those who found the action intrusive, she became "Dr. Deathwiler" and a target for frustration and anger. She seems to take it all in stride. "I can remember one day in particular when everything I picked up had foul language," Detwiler recalled. "That's part of the job." With a chuckle, she paraphrased Nietzsche: "What won't hurt you makes you stronger." - Philip Yam, The Pathological Protein: mad cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases (Get the book.)

"Experts studying the BSE epidemic surmised that up until the early 1980s the renderers in the United Kingdom used flammable solvents to dissolve fats and the solvents may have deactivated the agent that causes mad cow disease and scrapie. When the use of these solvents was discontinued this may have allowed the scrapie agent to remain viable. It was shortly after Tenderers stopped using these solvents that the first cases of BSE began to appear in cattle in the United Kingdom." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"Organic, grass-fed meat is also less likely to carry mad cow disease.) Eat the leanest cuts possible. Skinless chicken and turkey are better sources of protein as they contain little saturated fat. Eliminate trans-fatty acids from your diet. Fried foods, especially French fries, fried chicken, and doughnuts, are almost always soaked in these toxic fats. Food manufacturers have to tell you, on their labeling, how much of these fats their products contain, but you should know that a product that contains less than half a gram (0." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"They would show the world how conservative they were at keeping mad cow disease out of this country. Dumpster after dumpster came and went, off to the incinerator in Massachusetts, or so the USDA claimed. Larry had an inkling that the entire thing was a ruse and decided to trail the truck that collected the dumpster. The truck went nineteen miles north to the Moretown dump. Not to Massachusetts. Not to an incinerator, but to a local landfill. As Larry took pictures of the dumping, he decided it was the final straw. It was time to sue the USDA for fraud." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.) "And if you believe the press the government would have people believe that the Faillaces' sheep have mad cow disease, when in fact they have tested negative consistently for a period of years." The judge pondered this information for a moment and then asked, "Anybody else want to say anything on this—on these issues?" Ms. Ranaldo stood. "Thank you, Your Honor. Your Honor, I would like to first address some matters related to—that have been raised related to the testing. The attorney for the Faillaces indicated that?" - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

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