‘Don’t Just Switch from Beef to Chicken; Get the Sickness out of Your Kitchen!’
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:12:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Action for Animals <afa@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Don’t Just Switch from Beef to Chicken; Get the Sickness out of Your
Kitchen!
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Don’t Just Switch from Beef to Chicken; Get the Sickness out of Your
Kitchen!
By Dr. Michael Greger, MD - for Action for Animals.
Our government seems to be more interested in protecting cattle futures on
the Chicago Merchantile exchange than it does in protecting human futures.
In direct violation of the World Health Organization recommendations and
international standards,[1] billions of pounds of slaughterhouse waste is
still legally fed to pigs[2] and chickens[3] in North America.[4-5]
According to the USDA, the most infectious tissues of the U.S. mad cow
case–the brain, spinal cord, and intestines–”were removed from this
animal and sent to rendering” to presumably become animal feed and pet
food.[6]
D. Carleton Gajdusek was the first to be awarded the Nobel Prize in
Medicine for his work on mad cow-like diseases.[7] He was quoted on
Dateline NBC as saying, “it’s got to be in the pigs as well as the cattle.
It’s got to be passing through the chickens.”[8] Dr. Paul Brown, medical
director for the US Public Health Service, believes that pigs and poultry
could indeed be harboring mad cow disease and passing it on to humans,
adding that pigs are especially sensitive to the disease. “It’s
speculation,” he says, “but I am perfectly serious.”[9]
Although no pigs or chickens have been found with the disease, they are
killed so young on American factory farms that they may not have time to
develop symptoms. Pigs and chickens may also be so-called “silent
carriers.” Dr. Richard Race is a Senior Investigator with the National
Institutes of Health.[10] In 2001, he published a landmark paper showing
that even species thought to be resistant to particular strains of prions
could invisibly harbor the disease and pass it on to other animals.[11] He
also found that these deadly prions were somehow able to adapt to the new
species, becoming even more lethal and replicating faster and faster.[12]
Mad cow disease has been described as the chernobyl of food safety issues.
It lays to bear our brash willingness to place the public, rather than
corporate profits, at risk, and the danger inherent in cows-or
people-eating the flesh of other beings.
Any animal with a brain has the potential to become infected and
presumably infectious with these deadly infectious sponge-like brain
diseases. Although there are some cuts of beef that carry less risk than
others, the safest type of meat… is a veggie burger. It’s a no brainer!
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[1] Joint WHO/FAO/OIE Technical Consultation on BSE. OIE Headquarters,
Paris, 11-14 June 2001.
[2] European Commission memo/03/94. Brussels, 30 April 2003.
[3] National Renderers Association. North American Rendering: A Source Of
Essential, High-Quality Products.
[4] Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Regulations: Food for Ruminants,
Livestock and Poultry (Part XIV), “Prohibited Materials”.
[5] Food and Drug Administration 2000 CFR Title 21, Volume 6, Chapter 1,
Part 589.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_00/21cfr589_00.html.
[6] FDCH Political Transcripts December 23, 2003
[7] Unconventional viruses and the origin and disappearance of kuru. 13
December 1976.
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1976/gajdusek-lecture.html
[8] NBC Dateline 14 March 1997.
[9] Pearce, Fred. “BSE May Lurk in Pigs and Chickens.” New Scientist 6
April 1996: 5.
[10] <http://www.niaid.nih.gov/dir/labs/lpvd/race.htm>.
[11] R Race et al. Long-term subclinical carrier state precedes scrapie
replication and adaptation in a resistant species: analogies to human
BSE/vCJD. Journal of Virology 75(21):10073-89 (2001).
[12] National Institutes of Health. NIAID News Release “Study Examines How
Prion Disease Adapts to New Species.” 17 October 2001.
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