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It is more dangerous than ever to eat meat!

Beware of Mad Cow Disease

This is no laughing matter. The feed companies have been increasingly putting things into animal feeds, which should not be there: growth hormones, antibiotics, and even insecticides. But—in far larger quantities—are the ground-up dead animals which, along with grain, constitutes the major part of the daily rations of livestock in America. Whatever kind of dead animal that you buy at the meat market, it is sure to have eaten a combination of chemicals and carcasses before it was killed at the slaughterhouse. But now we learn that portions of those slain animals are also mixed into other preparations which you would not suspect. In this article, we will focus our attention primarily on mad cow disease and products containing dead cows. Yet all other domestic animals, slain for human use in some way, were also fed dangerous chemicals, hormones, and diseased animal parts. In 1986, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE; also called mad cow disease) was first discovered in British cattle. It was suspected that the cows had contracted the disease from feed made out of the remains of sheep which had been infected by a brain disease known as scrapie. Farmers paid less for infected feed, which included ground up sheep and cows. At the time, the British government took measures it believed would prevent the disease from being spread to other cattle. But the British government now admits that, since 1986, there have been 161,000 cases of the disease in cows. So it has not been eradicated. To make matters worse, the disease is believed to have an incubation period of about 10 years! It is an interesting fact that the British government had kept the secret for over a decade, but was only forced to admit the problem when, in 1997, a number of cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) began occurring in humans. That is the human counterpart of mad cow disease. The evidence indicated that the people had been...