Hot! Mad Cow Disease

Media Inquiries

For press inquiries for the recent Mad Cow Crisis from the US, contact:

Ronnie Cummins, National Director, OCA: 218-226-4164 or

Michael Greger, M.D. 617-524-8064

Links

CJD Watch - Tracking Creutzfeldt-Jakob

Yahoo's Mad Cow announcement page

Mad Cow Disease Discussion with Terry Singeltary

Official Mad Cow Disease Archive

1998 write-up from The Atlantic Monthly

Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from your Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat by means of Howard Lyman.

Disease victims.

Mad Deer Site

Stop the Madness Mad Cow Disease may be observed inside the US. Given the fact that your USDA only tests one cow of all the 2,000, no-one definitely is aware what number of of those infected family pets may perhaps have currently joined the human foodstuff supply. Take Action - Sign your Petition

Join tens of thousands of people and indicator this Mad Cow USA-Stop the Madness petition , strenuous which the particular US Government follow and quash any bullying behaviors similar demanding models necessary through the European Union as well as Japan:

Mandatory tests for everyone cattle dropped at slaughter, previous to these people input the foodstuff chain.

Ban the feeding involving blood, manure, and slaughterhouse spend to be able to animals.

Stop harassing farmers as well as foods processors who sadly are interested in alone assessment their own beef.

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Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE): A family with progressive, incurable, deadly diseases the result of prions. Characterized by dementia, and pockets throughout the actual mental on autopsy. Can be sent among mammals whenever one mammal takes aspects of the nervous system (e.g., brain, vertebrae cord) involving a further mammal.

Prion (pronounced pree-on): Novel transmittable agent common to be able to these kinds of diseases. Not a virus and also bacterium, but an contagious protein which could established off of your sequence reaction which in turn destroys nerve cells. They can not be inactivated by way of almost all sterilization methods.

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE): The complex title with regard to Mad Cow Disease - the actual TSE obtained in cattle. The type of BSE determined inside European cows may be not necessarily like which around US cattle.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD): A human being TSE. The traditional kind of CJD appears in order to arise spontaneously, however the so-called "new variant" associated with CJD (nvCJD) is now considered to be the people comparative regarding mad cow disease concept being contracted simply by feeding on polluted beef.

Kuru: Another human TSE, obtained in Pacific Islanders who ate human being brains.

Scrapie: The TSE obtained in sheep. The probable source associated with all additional animal TSEs.

Downer cow: US industry time period to get an animal exactly who drops down as well as dead without an noticeable disease. Some people hypothesise that a few US downer cows employ a form connected with BSE by using different indicators with the British sort of BSE.

Books Mad Cow USA

Before there were Fast Food Nation, there was Mad Cow USA. Those whom learn this guide while them first seemed around 1997 were shocked but certainly not pleasantly surprised on December 23, 2003, should the U.S. Secretary associated with Agriculture introduced that crazy cow disease possessed been recently obtained in America.

Six years earlier, Stauber and Rampton warned around Mad Cow USA of which government and industry while in the US have did not have the necessary steps to avoid this specific peculiar along with lingering dementia disease coming from distribution by way of contaminated give into animals in addition to humans.

The eating involving rendered slaughterhouse waste materials to livestock, which usually advances crazy cow disease plus produced an epidemic throughout England, is still both appropriate in addition to widespread while in the United States. Dairy calves will be basically weaned on cattle blood vessels protein with calf milk formula, though federal as well as market give the American criminal court your dangerous diet regime of outright lies, false assurances and fake PR.

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About Michael Greger, MD

Michael Greger, MD, is the Mad Cow Coordinator for the Organic Consumers Association plus the Chief BSE Investigator pertaining to Farm Sanctuary . Dr. Greger have been speaking freely related to crazy cow disease considering 1993. He features debated that National Cattlemen's Beef Association ahead of the FDA and has been asked just as one skilled witness in the Oprah Winfrey well known "meat defamation" trial. He features added to a lot books and posts on

Dr. Greger is really a scholar with the Cornell University School connected with Agriculture along with the Tufts University School of Medicine. He could be reached for media requests at 206-312-8640 as well as . For intermittent messages about Dr. Greger's Mad Cow writings and also commentary, send out a reject mail to