121. NPR : Unraveling Mad Cow Disease mad cow disease and related illness are thought to be spread by an infectious protein, not a germ. But some prominent scientists don t agree. http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1678545

122. USDA BSE Information Page United States Department of Agriculture offers updates on mad cow disease. http://www.usda.gov/BSE/

You are here: Home document.write(mw_crumbs_notitle("",""," ")) Your browser does not support JavaScript. Please update your browser. Transcript of Technical Briefing with Bill Hawks, Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Services, Dr.Elsa Murano, Under Secretary for Food Safety, Dr. Ron DeHaven, Administration, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Dr. Barbara Masters, Acting Administrator, Food Safety Inspection Service May. 19, 2004 Press Statement by Dr. Peter Fernandez Chairman, US BSE Technical Working Group Associate Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA March 15, 2004 Veneman Announces Expanded BSE Surveillance Program BSE Surveillance Plan Jan. 8, 2004 USDA Issues New Regulations To Address BSE May 21, 2004 Transcript of Technical Briefing with Bill Hawks, Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Services, Dr.Elsa Murano, Under Secretary for Food Safety, Dr. Ron DeHaven, Administration, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Dr. Barbara Masters, Acting Administrator, Food Safety Inspection Service - Washington D.C. March 15,, 2004 Transcript of Remarks From Technical Briefing on BSE and Related Issues With Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman and USDA Chief Veterinary Officer Dr. Ron DeHaven Washington D.C.

123. Compassion Over Killing > Mad Cow Disease In The United States mad cow disease in the United States. Introduction. December mad cow disease is only one reason among many to eat vegetarian fare. Being http://www.cok.net/lit/madcow.php

Other COK Sites TryVeg.com ChickenIndustry.com EggScam.com member.cok.net VegDC.com Mad Cow Disease in the United States Introduction The USDA, headed by former beef industry lobbyist Ann Veneman, claims the 1997 ban on feeding ruminants (cattle and sheep) to other ruminants should be enough to protect U.S. consumers from the risk of mad cow disease. However, a 2001 investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported that literally hundreds of feed suppliers violated the ban and found that at least 1,200 feed suppliers had not even been identified nor inspected. What action did the FDA take when learning that hundreds of American feed suppliers were not in compliance with the ban that was to keep mad cow disease risk low in the United States? Virtually nothing. The FDA has done little to enforce the ban, even when it knows a supplier is violating it. In 2002, the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, issued a report on the U.S. mad cow disease risk, stating: FDA has no clear enforcement strategy for dealing with firms that do not obey the feed ban, and it does not know what, if any, enforcement actions the states may be taking.

124. CNN.com - Italy Denies Report That Man Died Of Mad Cow Disease - July 28, 2000 CNN http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/07/28/italy.mad.cow.reut/index.html

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125. IATP | Ag Observatory A listing of mad cow disease (BSE) headlines, documents and other resources available from Ag Observatory and other Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy http://www.agobservatory.org/madcow/index.cfm

A listing of mad cow disease (BSE) headlines, documents and other resources available from Ag Observatory and other Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy observatories and programs. HEADLINES Date Published USDA Responds to Mix Up on Canadian Beef May 24, 2004 FDA Not Yet Ready to Announce Mad Cow Feed Rules May 21, 2004 USDA Messed Up, Fessed Up May 21, 2004 Scientists Fear Hidden epidemic of vCJD May 21, 2004 Conrad asks President for Veneman’s Resignation May 20, 2004 USDA Allowed Canadian Beef In Despite Ban May 20, 2004 Press Statement by Dr. Peter Fernandez Chairman, US BSE Technical Working May 19, 2004 Cargill executive predicts end of Japan's beef ban May 18, 2004 State Finds No Creutzfeldt-Jakob Cluster; Resident Disagrees May 7, 2004 Calls for Federal Inquiry Over Untested Cow May 6, 2004 U.S. Confirms A Failure to Use Mad-Cow Test May 4, 2004 VENEMAN ANNOUNCES FRAMEWORK AND FUNDING FOR NATIONAL Apr 27, 2004 Senator Cantwell Calls on Bush Administration to Keep Promise to Close Loopholes in Mad Cow Rules Apr 19, 2004 Economic Impact Analysis Of Bse Regulations Apr 7, 2004

126. CNN.com - Denmark Investigates 'mad Cow' Disease Case - February 28, 2000 CNN http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/02/28/denmark.mad.cow/index.html

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127. The Seattle Times: Local News: Mad-cow Disease Hits State; Feds Say Beef 'absolu Stocks in meatpacking companies and restaurant chains fell quickly today as investors reacted to the first reported case of mad cow disease in the United http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001822407_madcow24.html

Your account Today's news index Weather Traffic ... SERVICES Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - Page updated at 09:41 A.M. Mad-cow disease hits state; feds say beef 'absolutely safe' By Sandi Doughton Seattle Times staff reporter GARY J. CICHOWSKI / THE CHRONICLE A Midway Meats barn adjacent to the processing plant is shown yesterday in Centralia. Midway Meats is where authorities believe a cow suspected to have "mad-cow" disease was deboned. E-mail this article Print this article Search archive Related stories What you need to know about this disease Consumer suit aims to stop use of ill cows Timeline: The worldwide spread of 'mad-cow' disease News of quarantine stuns, angers, scares Mabton-area farmers ... Commenting on 'mad-cow' A Holstein dairy cow from a small farm near Yakima is the nation's first probable case of "mad-cow" disease, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said yesterday, hastening to reassure Americans that the risk of contracting the brain-wasting disease is minuscule. "Despite the finding, we remain confident in the safety of our food supply," Veneman said. "I do not hesitate to recommend to anyone that beef is absolutely safe to eat." But the news, which hit as many Americans were shopping for their Christmas roasts, could prove devastating to the nation's $175-billion beef industry.

128. Oprah's Report On Mad Cow Disease Oprah s report on mad cow disease. April 15th, 1996. Show transcript. mad cow disease, it s a medical mystery spreading panic across the Atlantic. http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/television/oprah_transcript.html

Oprah's report on Mad Cow Disease April 15th, 1996 Show transcript Mad Cow Disease, it's a medical mystery spreading panic across the Atlantic. In England, 10 puzzling deaths of young people in recent years may be linked to a rare and fatal brain disorder in cattle. British scientists believe the victims may have eaten diseased beef, as many as 10 years ago. The afflicted cattle shake and contort like mad dogs before what must be an excruciating and inevitable death. In human beings, dementia and paralysis precede death. Scientists speculate that cattle contract the disease by feeding on sheep parts that are infected with another disease. A practice officially banned in England in 1989. The disease can take years to develop. McDonald's and Burger King in England have stopped selling British beef. Europe has refused to import it and now Britain will destroy 4.7 million older cows that may have fed sheep parts. The scare is turning a nation of beef eaters away from their favorite food. Could it happen here? American officials say no, but so did the British government until last month. Though the link between cattle and humans has not been definitively proven, and there's no test for Mad Cow Disease, the fear it has generated may destroy an industry and dramaticall alter the way we eat. Participants: Oprah Winfrey - host Howard Lyman - Executive director of Humane Society's Eating With Conscience Gary Weber - National Cattlemen's Beef Association Representative Dr. Will Hueston - United States Department of Agriculture representative

129. Mad Cow Homepage Does Your Cow Have mad cow disease? by Dr. Pundit Gainsay. In 1996 bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow disease caused http://www.yuksrus.com/madcow.html

Does Your Cow Have Mad Cow Disease? by Dr. Pundit Gainsay In 1996 bovine spongiform encephalopathy (B.S.E.), or "Mad Cow" disease caused the unfortunate slaughter of 11 million Head of British Cattle. It will forever be known as the "Herd Shot Round the World." To help prevent another outbreak of Mad Cow Disease we ask you to monitor your cows for any of the following symptoms listed below. If your cow displays any of the following symptoms we suggest you try the chicken instead... 1) Your cow insists on wearing a little steak sauce behind each ear as cologne. 2) She refuses to let you milk her, saying "Not on the first date." 3) Your cow takes up painting and cuts off one of its ears. 4) Your cow gets a silicon implant for her udder. 5) Your cow appears on Oprah, claiming to be a horse trapped in a cow's body. 6) Your cow demands to be branded with the 'Golden Archs Logo'. 7) Your cow insists that all Hindus are sacred. 8) Your cow thought Bruce Seldon would beat Mike Tyson. 9) Your cow insists evaporated milk comes from thirsty cows. 10) Your cow quits the family dairy business and applies for a job at Burger King.

130. UDDER DENIAL Or WHY MAD COW DISEASE MAY BE IN YOUR FRIDGE TODAY UDDER DENIAL or WHY mad cow disease MAY BE IN YOUR FRIDGE TODAY. GO back to HOME PAGE. mad cow disease is nature s last laugh on mammaleat-mammal mankind. http://www.home.earthlink.net/~astrology/udder.htm

UDDER DENIAL or WHY MAD COW DISEASE MAY BE IN YOUR FRIDGE TODAY GO back to HOME PAGE Mad-Cow has to be the most intriguing fatal disease on the planet. Imagine the scenario: you're walking along eating this hamburger, not knowing that as you munch, alien invaders are climbing out of the meat, through your tongue, bouncing like happy, yellow pac-men toward your brain which THEY will eat the way you're inhaling that burger. You don't know you're infected so you get married and have a child-who, you guessed it, is born with the Satan bug pre-loaded, already munching away at his brain. The truth about Mad Cow is so horrific nothing is taught about it in med schools. Until a year ago, most scientists knew Jack in the Box about it-(malady originally found in cannibals but mysteriously, at times seemingly spontaneously in non -cannibals)which was probably for the best. If doctors had known any more, med students would have realized they had no more than five or ten years to live, quit school and spent their last years surfing Tahiti. A lot of people would have you believe only Mad-Cow and Englishmen go out in the Noon day sun.

131. Mad Cow Disease mad cow disease Archives. What Canadians Need to Know About mad cow disease What Is mad cow disease? Is Canada Safe From mad cow disease? http://www.healthcoalition.ca/bse.html

Mad Cow Disease Archives What Canadians Need to Know About Mad Cow Disease What Is Mad Cow Disease? Mad Cow disease, or its scientific name Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), is a fatal brain-wasting disease in cattle which was first identified in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1986. The disease has an incubation period lasting 4-7 years, but ultimately is fatal for cattle within weeks of its onset.(1) BSE is one of a number of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) - a family of diseases in humans and animals which are characterized by sponge-like lesions in the brain. Other examples of TSEs are found in sheep, deer, elk, mink and even the feline species. In deer and elk, TSE is commonly referred to as "Chronic Wasting Disease" and in sheep the disease is known as "scrapie." It is widely believed that cattle in Britain developed BSE as a result of being fed the rendered carcasses of dead sheep that were infected with scrapie. There is a great deal of speculation as to the original cause of Mad Cow disease. According to the widely-held "prion theory", the BSE agent is composed largely, if not entirely, of a self-replicating protein referred to as a "prion." Another theory suggests that the agent is virus-like and possesses nucleic acids which carry information. Strong evidence collected over the past decade supports the prion theory, but the ability of the BSE agent to form multiple strains is more easily explained by a virus-like agent. Epidemiological studies conducted in the UK suggest it is spread through cattle feed prepared from carcasses of other ruminants - any of a group of even-toed, hoofed, cud-chewing mammals, including cattle, deer, and elk. No one knows for sure how the first cow (or cows) got BSE, but we know it spread throughout Britain and eventually the world through the cannibalistic practice of making cattle feed out of the bits of cattle (offal) that are not fed to humans. Like a "chain-letter", offal from a Mad Cow infected many more cattle and offal of those cattle infected many more.

132. Guardian Unlimited | Special Reports | First Case Of Mad Cow Disease In US First case of mad cow disease in US Julian Borger in Washington Wednesday December 24, 2003 The Guardian The US government was yesterday scrambling to calm http://www.guardian.co.uk/bse/article/0,2763,1112575,00.html

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133. Organophosphates And Mad Cow Disease Organophosphates Implicated In mad cow disease Coverup Insecticide causes Mad Cows nvCJD. by Fintan Dunne. Research Kathy Mc Mahon. http://www.cqs.com/opmadcow.htm

If you or a loved one, friend, or relative is afflicted with cancer, heart disease, AIDS, or other chronic illness, click here. Lipitor may cause cellular degeneration - adverse side effect reports mounting Consulting Services Natural Therapy for Cancer ... Contact Organophosphates Implicated In Mad Cow Disease by Fintan Dunne Research Kathy Mc Mahon If Mark Purdey is right we are in big trouble. We are destroying our brains with insecticides. His groundbreaking research into the cause of BSE in cattle and new variant CJD in humans, has been sidelined by United Kingdom officials. They attribute both diseases to ingestion of prion protein found in contaminated beef. But Purdey has evidence the government's anti-parasite campaigns unleashed a chemical holocaust for cattle resulting in BSE, and that human CJD is accelerated by the same chemical effects. Could a chemical be that deadly? For fear of attack by Saddam Hussein, most Israeli hospitals have antidotes to a deadly nerve gas developed by Nazi chemists which contains organophosphate (OP) the same compound found in the insecticides suspected of driving BSE and CJD. The vast bulk of the cattle found staggering around in British fields with their brains burned out, have been treated for warble-fly with a constituent of nerve gas. The CJD and BSE symptoms also mirror 'manganese madness', an irreversible fatal neuro-psychiatric degenerative syndrome that plagued manganese miners in the first half of the last century. Could manganese and organophosphate be causing these diseases?

134. Mad Cow Disease (Harpers.org) Harper s Magazine. mad cow disease. Sources. Events Related To mad cow disease. USDA officials said that there was no need to http://www.harpers.org/MadCowDisease.html

Mad Cow Disease Sources Events Related To Mad Cow Disease USDA officials said that there was no need to test all cattle for mad cow disease before they are eaten [Newsday] Week of Aug 1 A British Health Department bulletin revealed that fourteen Britons have died of mad cow disease so far this year; scientists have said that 500,000 people could die of the disease by 2030. A family of Vermont sheep farmers vowed to prevent the government from slaughtering their flock of Belgian dairy sheep; four sheep descended from the flock tested positive for an ovine form of mad cow disease Week of Oct 31 French supermarkets were selling meat thought to be contaminated with mad cow disease Week of Nov 7 People in Galway, Ireland, dug up the carcass of a mad cow and placed it in the owner's farmyard; burying a cow suffering from bovine spongiform encephalapathy could contaminate ground water with the prions that apparently cause the disease Scientists warned again that chronic wasting disease , a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy infecting deer and elk in the American West, can probably be transmitted to humans, much like its cousin mad cow disease ; up to half the deer in some areas are infected with the disease.

135. Www-ed.fnal.gov/linc/projects/FoxP/foodpres.htm Mad Cow USA Disinfopedia mad cow disease was first identified in the United States on 23 December 2003 Official mad cow disease Web Site, last updated June 18, 2001. http://www-ed.fnal.gov/linc/projects/FoxP/foodpres.htm

RESOURCE BASED LEARNING UNIT USING BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY (MAD COW DISEASE) SUBJECT/CONTENT AREA : Food Science (Interdisciplinary course team taught by two Science and Family and Family and Consumer Sciences teachers) assisted by the library/media specialist PURPOSE/GOAL : To use resource based learning to research mad cow disease, a complex, current, real world problem. To integrate critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills into the Food Science curriculum with emphasis on evaluation of information retrieved. The Food Science course meets the four Illinois state science goals for learning. CONTEXT/SETTING/ENVIRONMENT : Fenton High School is a suburban Chicago high school with 100 faculty members, serving a population of about 1300 very diverse learners. Thirty percent of the students belong to minority groups and 5% have limited English proficiency. Over 13% are identified as below poverty level and receive free lunch services. Nine percent of the students at Fenton are identified as Special Education. The Fenton High School strategic plan acknowledges the need to infuse our curriculum with opportunities for students to learn critical thinking skills, problem solving, and communication skills. This project is part of "Success is on the Menu," a five year project funded by the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois State Library.

136. Mad Cow Disease - Disinfopedia mad cow disease. Also First identified in Britain in 1985, mad cow disease developed over the years into a frightening crisis. Several http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Mad_cow_disease

137. Dog Food May Carry "Mad Cow Disease" Click Here. Dog Food May Carry mad cow disease . May 26, 2003 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that a Canadian cow http://consumeraffairs.com/news03/dog_food.html

SEARCH: Enter company or topic Rogues Gallery Good Guys Complaint Form Consumer News ... Travel Dog Food May Carry "Mad Cow Disease" May 26, 2003 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that a Canadian cow that tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, also known as “mad cow disease”) may have been used to manufacture dry dog food, some of which was reported to have been shipped to the United States. The Canadian government prevented the BSE positive cow from being processed for human food. The FDA noted that there is no scientific evidence to date that dogs can contract BSE or any similar disease. In addition there is no evidence that dogs can transmit the disease to humans. FDA notified the U.S. pet food firm, The Pet Pantry International, of Carson City, Nevada, when FDA learned that the pet food that the firm received may have included rendered material from the BSE positive cow. The manufacturer of the pet food is Champion Pet Food, Morinville, Alberta. Even though there is no known risk to dogs from eating this dog food, as a prudent measure to help assure that the U.S. stays BSE free The Pet Pantry International is asking its customers who may have purchased the suspect product to hold it for pickup by the distributor so that the dog food will not mistakenly be mixed into cattle or other feeds if any of the dog food is discarded. The suspect dog food was produced by Champion Pet Food between February 4, 2003, and March 12, 2003.

138. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia (Redirected from mad cow disease). (Lyman and Oprah Winfrey were sued for discussing this book); mad cow disease Plague of the 21st Century? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_cow_disease

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Mad cow disease Bovine spongiform encephalopathy BSE or more commonly mad cow disease ) is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle , which is transmissible to humans. Misshaped prion proteins cause the degeneration and spread the disease between individuals. Very rarely BSE may arise spontaneously, but more often it spreads in epidemic fashion. Spontaneous disease arises in animals that carry a rare mutant prion allele , which expresses prions that contort by themselves into the disease-causing shape . Transmission of BSE occurs when healthy animals consume tainted tissues from others with the disease. Practices recently banned in many countries allowed this to occur. Epidemics in cattle are believed to have originated in sheep , in which the related prion disease scrapie is common. The tissues that contain most of the pathogenic molecules are those of the brain and the nervous system , although contagious amounts appear sometimes to be present in the blood. In the brain, these proteins form plaques, which lead to the appearance of holes in the brain, degeneration of mental abilities and death. Following an epidemic of BSE in Britain, 152 people (as of 2003) acquired and died of a more or less identical disease. For many of them, direct evidence exists that they had consumed tainted beef, and so this is assumed to be how all the individuals contracted it. Disease incidence also appears to correlate with slaughtering practices that led to the contamination of hamburger and other beef with nervous system tissue. The human disease was designated

139. Dennis Kucinich For President, 2004 - Mad Cow Disease SEARCH TOLL FREE (866) 4133664. mad cow disease. PDF. The unfortunate discovery of a dairy cow in Washington State infected with http://www.kucinich.us/issues/madcow.php

HOME PETITIONS KUCINICH BIO ISSUES/PLATFORM ... CONTACT US HOW TO CREATE CHANGE: Sign up for e-alerts. state AL AK AS AZ AR CA CO CT DE DC FL GA GU HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA PR RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VI VA WA WV WI WY SEARCH: TOLL FREE: Mad Cow Disease PDF The unfortunate discovery of a dairy cow in Washington State infected with Mad Cow Disease, or BSE, is a result of irresponsible U.S. agricultural policies. BSE in the United States is preventable, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture (UDSA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must do more to protect American consumers. Last year, the USDA tested only 19,990 cattle believed to be at risk for Mad Cow Disease, out of a population of about 96 million or 1 out of every 5,000 cattle. By contrast in Europe, every single animal above a given age gets tested for this fatal brain-wasting disease (one out of every four cattle). USDA argues that there is no risk to humans because slaughterhouses are required to remove all central nervous system (CNS) tissue from sick cattle. This tissue is where BSE is found and can infect humans if eaten. However, removing this tissue is rarely completely effective. USDA's own studies found that 35 percent of advanced meat recovery product tested was contaminated with CNS tissue. While the USDA-sponsored Harvard risk assessment of BSE in the U.S. noted that compliance with FDA's 1997 BSE feed rule is the most important factor in preventing a BSE outbreak, it is clear that this rule is not being rigorously enforced. Two GAO reports have shown how lax FDA has been in ensuring compliance with the feed rule. The first GAO report published some three years after the BSE feed rule went into effect found fairly widespread non-compliance. The 2002 GAO report found no improvement and found that the FDA compliance data was unreliable.

140. MSNBC - Mad Cow In The U.S. Front Page Thousands more mad cow cases possible While official numbers show human cases of mad cow disease have been tapering off, new research published Friday http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3849231/

MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Shopping ... Money document.write('') Web Search: logoImg("http://sc.msn.com"); MSNBC News Alerts Newsletters Help ... MSNBC Shopping Search MSNBC: Advanced Search advertisement Mad cow hunt begins, but will it work? On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will launch its testing program for mad cow disease. It believes its plan will find out for sure if the fatal illness is present in other U.S. cattle. Critics believe the effort falls far short. FULL STORY Jon Bonne / MSNBC.com Firm develops human mad-cow test Technology detects blood proteins linked to disease Prions found in muscle tissue of sheep First evidence of rogue proteins in human food chain Thousands more mad cow cases possible Incubation of human disease could extend for decades MORE NEWS ON MAD COW DISEASE FDA’s mad cow rules seen imminent Some states seek to weaken mad-cow ban WashPost: USDA violated Canadian beef ban Lawmaker questions USDA mad cow efforts ... Mad-cow testing official resigns advertisement IN NUTRITION NEWS JUNK FOOD ONE-THIRD OF AMERICAN DIET Junk foods such as sugary sodas and chips make up nearly one-third of calories in the U.S. diet, researchers said. Variety may be dangerous for diets Kids' foods cutting back on fat U.S., European food groups back U.N. diet plan

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