http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/12/23/mad.cow/index.html

This article mentions that mad cow disease is not known to spread via muscular tissue. I wonder if that is true. The article goes on to mention that mad cow disease is usually spread by consuming brain and nerve tissue. I guess what I am wondering is how safe our beef industry is at this point! Does anyone have any expertise in this subject?

I have to say, I'm a little afriad to eat hamburgers now.

Horror stories appeared about the safety problems prevalent in our meat industry long before the onset of the latest mad cow scare...

To sum up: not enough inspectors and too much filth... Burgers ARE tasty, though, so if you insist on eatin' 'em, ya may not wanna watch any of those stomach churnin' TV documentaries at the same time...

Spinach, anyone?

Would you guy's in the UK eat the muscle tissue? I mean not knowingly...but what about this statement? Do you believe that musce tissue is safe?

The recent Mad Cow scare in the US came and went in a few days. The authorities decide the cow not an American, so somehow that miraculously fixed the problem. The Canadians were found to be responsible.

Meanwhile, eight people died from the human form of Mad Cow in the southern part of New Jersey. UPI reported the story but it didn't make the TV news at all. The disease takes 10-15 years to incubate, so New Jersey would be just the tip of the iceberg.

I had a vision in November 2002 of how this beef thing would suddenly creep up on unsuspecting consumers. Here's the vision below. It might help you. People don t get how deadly beef is. It is hidden from them. It's never too late to stop eating beef in my view.

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Eek! Roast Beef

November 30th, 2002


About two weeks ago, I watched a scene in a kitchen. A woman had taken a round roast of beef out of the oven. She carefully sliced the end of the joint and a circular piece of meat, about one inch thick, flopped into the empty part of the baking dish.

She put down her utensils and picked up the slice with her fingers, and as she touched the meat, she recoiled backwards as if she had received an electric shock. There was a look of absolute terror on her face.

Comment:

The government wants people to believe that beef is safe and that the CJD crisis has come and gone. In fact, during the CJD crisis in Britain, the government kept insisting over and over that beef was safe when they knew full well from the medical and scientific reports that its human form Jacob-Creutzfeld disease is deadly, and that it takes 10 to 15 years to incubate.

Cows are vegetarian but to save money on mass-production, farmers feed cows animal extracts, which often included the churned-up brains of sheep, who are susceptible to a CJD-type disease called Scarpie, and that's how CJD eventually arrived via cattle as a human disease.

The only beef that is 100% safe is from Iceland, or beef that comes from cattle that are reared organically on unfertilized grass. If you eat beef, don't do so in restaurants and fast-food joints. Buy organic beef and cook it at home so you know where it has come from.

The second choice is to give up beef completely and stick to other meats, or take to vegetarianism. The beef crisis is coming. It will collapse the fast-food hamburger companies. Jacob-Cruetzfeld disease is rare and so your chance of having the disease is very remote, but it will only take a few thousand cases across Europe and America to tip cattle farming on its face in the mud.

Remember your government is bound to lie like crazy. This crisis is going to mutate and become ever more serious. The farmers are a very powerful lobby. They'll take you to the grave rather than suffer the loss of a few hundred bucks on an animal.

About eight months ago, I had a vision of some chips (French fries) in a deep fryer. They lit up as if they were emitting nuclear radiation. It was weird watching them in the oil jiggling like electrons, and glowing a yellowy-lime green. I didn't think of it much at the time because I don't like chips but recent medical reports published in England have confirmed that fried potatoes are full of carcinogens, which are very harmful over the long term.

How will you wean the kids off them? I don't know. I would buy a side order of French fries at Macdonald's and I would take the children to a graveyard, and place the fries on a grave. I think the children would remember that. And then I would explain that the Happy Meal only applies to the man that took your money, and that the guy who ate the meal is under the stone.

Yeh, beef is real bad, that's why people have been eating it for hundreds, no make that thousands of years. When is the last time one of you have met a person that died from mad cow? More folks die from going to work in their car.

THe cow has been around for thousands of years, but never have they been processed like they are today.

If anyone is interested I would suggest checking out www.madcowboy.com

This guy is a former cattle rancher who has since been speaking out against many of the dangerous practicies the meat industry participates in.

How to identify if your cow has MADCOW disease....
http://www.stjost.si/jokes/madcow.html