How Now, Mad Cow? by Lee Pitts

[Murgen]

All the recent media attention regarding Mad Cow Disease has raised some interesting questions. Such as...

Mad Cow Disease and been around for 15 years yet animal industries around the globe have used meat and bone meal as a feed ingredient since World War II. Why has BSE waited until now to raise its ugly head?

Britain stopped exporting contaminated cattle feed to other European countries in 1991. So why are cases of Mad Cow springing up now in places like Germany ten years later?

In France the number of infected cows doubled in the last year while in most other EU countries the number of Mad Cows has already peaked and declined. Why?

British scientists and officials respond that BSE and new variant Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease, the human form of the disease, both have long incubation periods and that explains the delayed fuse on the BSE time bomb that has ravaged the cattle business in the European Union. But what if the scientists and bureaucrats are wrong?

They've been wrong before you know.

THe rest of the story....

http://www.aaalivestock.com/articles/how.html

 

[Kathy]

This is a good article about Mark Purdey. It is probably from around 2001, by the sounds of it.

I dont think that it is fair for Pitts to state that the UK government lied about the BSE vCJD connection. The lie, is that eating beef with BSE causes vCJD, (in my opinion). BSE in cattle was a convenient scape-goat for the UK government.

Iatrogenic transmission of "human" growth hormone has been proven to spread the disease; but, not food.

Someone like Lee Pitts could get the word out, again, that the infectious protein hypothesis doesn't fit the whole criteria. Research in other areas should be undertaken.

Then again, the research which demonstrates that the prion starved of copper and contaminated with manganese shows similar mis-folding is already being ignored. Perhaps if the cattle groups started reading some of these scientific papers and contacting some of the authors, like David Brown of Bath University, UK, they might find some answers.