Mad
Cow Disease - What the Government Isn't Telling You!
By Dr. Lorraine Day
What is Mad Cow Disease?
Mad Cow Disease is
the common term for Bovine Spongiform Encepholopathy (BSE), a
progressive neurological disorder of cattle, which can be transmitted
to other species, including humans. In humans, it is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease, after the two doctors who first described the symptoms
of the disease.
The disease in cattle
is called Bovine Spongiform Encepholopathy because this form of
the disease occurs in cows (therefore, the term bovine); it causes
a sponge-like destruction of the brain (therefore, the term spongiform
encepholopathy - enceph means brain and pathy means pathology
- meaning an abnormality).
What are the
symptoms of Mad Cow Disease?
Symptoms include an excitable or nervous temperament
to external stimuli such as touch to the skin, a progressive unsteadiness
of gait resulting eventually in the inability to stand up. The
disease is virtually 100% fatal.
The human equivalent
of Mad Cow Disease, Cruetzfeldt-Jakob Disease, causes memory loss,
emotional instability including inappropriate outbursts, an unsteady
gait, progressing to marked weakness, severe rapidly progressive
dementia and death, often within a year of the onset of symptoms.
What is the
cause of Mad Cow Disease?
Currently the most accepted theory is that the causative
agent is a modified form of a normal cell surface protein called
a prion (pronounced PREE-ON) protein.
Where did Prions come
from? Are they a type of virus or bacteria? What are they?
A prion is neither
a virus nor a bacterium. Prions are proteins that contain no DNA
or RNA, two substances previously felt to be essential for reproduction
of a living tissue.
Prions are normal
constituents of the body when in their normal form or conformation,
but they can become twisted in a conformational change (a change
in shape - in the way the molecule is folded), and then they are
thought to cause disease.
How long ago
were Prions discovered?
In 1997, Stanley Prusiner, M.D., a professor of neurology
at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine,
won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of prions, "tiny protein
molecules that seem to cause a variety of slow acting - and inevitably
fatal - diseases in animals and humans; the name is an acronym
for "proteinaceous infectious particles."
But the diseases found
in association with these tiny protein molecules have been known
for over 50 years. In fact, the prion, as it has been named by
Dr. Prusiner, may well have been discovered over 150 years ago,
and rediscovered, every 25-50 years since then, by different scientists
who gave the molecule different names.
Prions exist, but
it is extremely doubtful that the Prion is the "CAUSE"
of ANY disease. Prions are much more likely to be the "RESULT"
of a sick and dying body. Prions are most probably a RESPONSE
to the illness that was actually CAUSED by a grossly improper
diet and other unhealthy lifestyle factors. "Factory farming"
of animals, with the massive use of hormones, pesticides and other
harmful substances destroy the animal's immune system.
When people eat these
diseased animals, the people get sick and die.
When the animal's
immune system is suppressed because of a violation of the immutable
natural health laws that govern the health of both animals and
man, then the body produces the agent necessary to clean out the
mess of dead and dying tissue resulting from the violation of
these health laws.
You see, these supposed
"infective agents" such as bacteria, viruses, fungi,
and now Prions, are NOT the
CAUSE of the diseases, they are the RESULT of a diseased body
caused by the wrong diet and lifestyle.
These bacteria, viruses,
fungi and prions are actually the "cleanup crew", formed
by the body, to get rid of the mess and clean out the body.
We have been taught
that germs CAUSE disease. But germs DON'T cause disease anymore
than flies cause garbage! This is explained in detail on my video
"Drugs NEVER Cure Disease."
Flies DON'T cause
garbage - Garbage attracts flies! A dead animal in the road attracts
vultures!! Vultures don't attract dead animals. It's the same
situation in the body. When there is dead and dying tissue in
the body, caused by an improper diet and lifestyle, the "cleanup
crew is called in to get rid of the problem.
The body can produce
its own "cleansing" agents (such as bacteria, viruses,
fungi and prions) when the need arises. Or humans ingesting prions
by eating the flesh of the cow or other infected animal can transmit
from others, or, as in the case of Mad Cow Disease, these agents.
When these agents
start cleaning out the toxins in the body, the toxins are dumped
into the blood stream to be filtered and eliminated from the body.
These toxins then cause symptoms that the doctor diagnoses as
“disease” and the doctor then NAMES the disease according
to the symptoms it produces.
The medical and pharmaceutical
establishment then tries to produce a DRUG to STOP the cleansing
process, in order to STOP the patient's uncomfortable symptoms.
But the drug NEVER cures the "disease" - it just stops
the cleansing process so the patient's body remains sick and filled
the toxins, even though the patient may feel somewhat better -
at least for a time.
If a person's immune
system is healthy because he has been eating and living properly,
he has no need to produce these cleansing agents and will not
be susceptible to them.
But if his body contains
dead and dying cells and tissue from an improper diet and lifestyle,
then these agents have a field day. As they "clean out"
the "garbage" in the body, the effect can be so severe,
that the patient actually dies.
So these tiny infective
agents can either be produced by the body itself, or transmitted
or ingested into the body from the outside.
In the 1800's, Antoine
Bechamp, a French physician and professor of biochemistry at a
prestigious University medical school in France discovered a tiny
particle that he named microzymas. He found that these tiny bodies
could change from one shape or form into another shape or form,
depending on the condition of the person's immune system.
About 70 years ago,
an extraordinary scientist-inventor, Royal Rife, built possibly
the world's greatest microscope and observed what Bechamp had
discovered, that these tiny bodies could change shape and form.
A bacterium could actually become a virus or a fungus, due to
a conformational change.
In the last 40 years,
Dr. Virgina Livingston, a physician, a professor at Rutgers University
and an outstanding cancer researcher, discovered these same tiny
bodies.
More recently, Gaston
Naessens, a brilliant chemist and physicist now living and working
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada built a super specialized microscope
for studying these tiny living organisms, which he named somatids.
Over years of careful
microscopic observation and laboratory experimentation, Naessens
went on to discover that if and when the immune system of an animal
or human being becomes weakened or destabilized (by violating
the 10 natural laws of health), the normal three-stage cycle of
the somatid goes through thirteen additional successive growth
stages, each form evolving into the next by conformational changes.
How do you know that
the Prion, recently discovered by Dr. Prusiner is the same molecule
as the somatid or the microzyma as named by the previous discoverers?
Answer:
1. It behaves in the
same way. It produces symptoms - "disease" - in a person
whose immune system has been suppressed by violation of the natural
health laws (improper diet and lifestyle).
2. It is found in
contact with diseased tissue. (Scientists think that because a
prion is found in CONTACT with diseased tissue, that the Prion
is the CAUSE of the disease. But, in fact, it is the RESULT of
the diseased tissue and NOT the CAUSE!)
3. Prions, somatids
and microzymas have virtually the same physical characteristics
- they CANNOT BE DESTROYED. There is NO WAY to kill them.
Prions are NOT DESTROYED
by fire, or by freezing, or by disinfectants, or by operating
room sterilization procedures, or by incineration, or by intense
radiation.
In fact, scientists
and government agencies HAVE NOT FOUND ANY WAY TO DESTROY THEM!!
Grinding up the dead
cows and other animals that have died from Mad Cow disease, and
then incinerating them WILL NOT KILL the Prion!!
How did this
whole mess get started?
Over 30 years ago, cattle and sheep ranchers and other
producers of animals to be slaughtered and used for food, started
"factory-farming" - raising the animals in penned areas,
in very close quarters, and feeding them hormones and other chemicals
to fatten them up faster for market.
They had to give them
huge amounts of antibiotics because the animals became so sick
so easily because of their terrible living conditions. (Their
Immune Systems were NOT working right.)
The ranchers also
cut costs by feeding their animal’s ground-up dead animals,
animals that have died of disease - as well as humane society
animals, cats and dogs that have been euthanized.
ALSO being used as
feed were road-kill and offal, parts of the animals not fit for
human consumption. This process of grinding up diseased, dead
animals for feed for other animals is called "rendering."
But sheep and cows
are herbivores - vegetarians. They are supposed to graze - to
eat grass.
They are NOT meat
eaters. Their intestines and body systems cannot stay healthy
when they are fed the wrong diet, especially when the ground up
dead animals used for food, died from disease!
The equivalent disease
in sheep is called "scrapie" because the diseased sheep
scrape themselves against fences and other objects until they
injure themselves. They develop other neurologic disorders and
eventually die -- - and THEN, the ranchers grind them up and feed
them to cows, chickens, pigs (and other animals to be used for
human consumption) and call the "feed" High Protein
Pellets!
Then when the cows
get sick and die from this horrible practice, they grind them
up and feed THEM to OTHER cows and other types of animals being
raised for human consumption.
What diseases
in humans are associated with Prions?
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has been diagnosed in many countries
in the world, including the United States.
Kuru, a neurologic
disease, very much like CJD, has been present in New Guinea for
many years. It appears to be associated with cannibalism.
Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker
(GSS) disease is manifested as a very unsteady gait plus other
signs of damage to the cerebellum - a specific area of the brain.
The symptoms are very much like CJD. GSS is also fatal.
Fatal familial insomnia
in which dementia follows difficulty sleeping.
Are sheep
and cows the only animals affected?
No. This same "feed" made of ground-up dead,
diseased animals has been fed, and is still being fed, to other
animals being raised for human consumption, including chickens
and pigs. Also deer, elk and mink have been found to have the
disease.
What countries
have been affected by Mad Cow Disease?
The UK has been severely affected. Germany, Italy and
many other countries have also been affected.
Is Mad Cow
Disease in the U.S.?
The Government says there is no problem with Mad Cow Disease in
the US
However, they admit
that cows in this country have already been diagnosed with Mad
Cow Disease.
And there are also
THOUSANDS of "Downer Cows" in this country, cows that
are well one day and dead the next. When these "Downer Cows"
are ground up and fed to other animals, the other animals develop
the equivalent of Mad Cow Disease.
So the government,
as always, is talking out of both sides of their mouth. They are
protecting the gigantic billion-dollar meat and poultry industry
rather than the American people.
What is the
government doing to stop this dangerous feeding practice?
They're approaching it the same way they have handled the AIDS
epidemic: They LIE!
1. First, they deny
that there is ANY problem.
2. When the evidence
becomes overwhelming that there is a BIG problem, they admit that
there "might" be a problem, but they say they're not
sure, they are studying it and if there is a problem, it's not
a serious problem and there is no reason for alarm. Keep eating
what you're eating, they advise.
3. When people start
catching on that there really is a problem, the government will
admit that at first they weren't as vigilant as they should of
been, but the people who were then responsible for investigating
the problem are no longer with the government (blame those guys
- they're gone) and now the problem is "under control."
And there is no cause for alarm. Keep eating the stuff, they advise
you.
4. A number of years
later they say, "Oh, we've found out that there really has
been a pretty big problem all along, but NOW we've got it under
control. So there is NO cause for alarm." Keep eating the
stuff, they advise you.
5. Then a year or
two later they admit that it's in ALL the different breeds of
animals, but it's "low risk" and you probably won't
get it so NO cause for alarm." Keep eating the stuff, they
advise you.
6. When the problem
continues to grow, they start dividing the Prion diseases into
different categories so no one specific category has too many
people in it.
7. When the problem
becomes outrageous, they admit there's a small, but controllable
problem, and then they start covering up the true statistics -
the REAL number of people who have the disease or who have already
died from the disease.
Their plan ALWAYS
is to keep the public calm as they die!
Would the government
REALLY LIE to us?
What is the evidence
for a cover-up in Mad Cow Disease?
As of Jan 6, 2001,
the Centers for Disease Control, a government Public Health organization,
published on their web site: "BSE has not been shown to exist
in the United States." "According to the Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Services of the United States Department
of Agriculture, BSE has NOT been detected in the United States,
despite active surveillance efforts for several years." However,
the Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) DOES NOT actively monitor the disease!
The REAL truth is:
"A year before BSE was even reported in Britain in 1985,
Richard Marsh, Chairman of the Department of Veterinary Science
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was alerting dairy practitioners
of the possibility that a "previously unrecognized scrapie-like
disease in cattle" existed in the United States.
The clue came in 1981
when "Mad Mink Disease" wiped out a population of minks
in Wisconsin who hadn't eaten any sheep at all. The meat portion
of their diet consisted almost exclusively of dairy cattle called
"Downers," an industry term describing cows which collapse
for unknown reasons and are too sick to stand up.
BUT - the beef industry
claims that "Downer Cows" DO NOT have Mad Cow Disease!
YET - when these Downer Cows were ground up and fed to mink -
the mink DEVELOPED "Mad Mink Disease!"
In June 1992, a USDA
consultant group decided that changes in the research program
to accommodate the possibility that BSE was already present in
the U.S. were, "not appropriate at this time." The panel
that made this decision included representatives of the National
Milk Producers Federation, the National Renderers Association,
the American Sheep Industry Association and the National Cattlemen's
Association.
(By the way, Beef
is the largest revenue source for American agriculture nationwide.
It is a $150 billion dollar industry. Since the FDA protects the
pharmaceutical industry, the very industry that it's supposed
to police, why wouldn't the USDA (US Dept of Agriculture) protect
the Beef and Sheep Industry, even though the USDA is supposed
to CONTROL it?)
According to the USDA,
"virtually all US feed manufacturers use meat and bone meal
in their feeds" and most US cattle are fed such rendered
animal tissues. In 1989 alone the US rendered two million tons
of cattle for use primarily in animal feed and pet food. There
has been a substantial increase in the use of animal protein in
commercial dairy feed since 1987.
Dr. Gibbs, who recently
chaired a World Health Organization investigation into the disease
says, "Do I believe BSE is here in the US, of course I do,"
Gibbs made this admission at a University of Wisconsin symposium.
With more than two
decades of prion research behind him, Dr. Stanely Prusiner, the
scientist who coined the term "prion" and received the
Nobel Prize for his work, agrees that Mad Cow Disease MUST be
present in the US"
In late 1978, Dr.
Masuo Doi, a veterinarian with the Food Safety and Quality Service,
studied a disorder in some young hogs that had arrived at a Packing
Plant in Albany, N.Y. from several midwestern states. The USDA's
pathologist reported that the damage in the pig's brain was similar
to the damage observed in the brains of sheep afflicted with scrapie,
essentially the same disease as Mad Cow Disease (BSE) in cows.
Finally, the FDA drafted
a rule that would ban the fortifying of animal feeds with "any
Mammalian tissue." However, the FDA has played a taxonomical
shell game by ARBITRARILY REMOVING PIGS FROM THE CLASS OF "MAMMALIA."
They declared that a pig is NOT a mammal!
A single teaspoon
of ingested high infectivity meat and bone meal is thought to
be enough to cause BSE in a cow.
"One hundred
thousand cows per year in the United States are fine at night,
but dead in the morning. The majority of those cows are rounded
up, ground up, fed back to other cows. If only one of them has
Mad Cow disease, it has the potential to infect thousands."
says Howard Lyman, Cattle Rancher for 40 years.
Mad Cow Risks were
First Reported in the United States in 1976!!
"Health experts...knew
of the potential dangers of contaminated human growth hormone
years before the first Creutzfeldt-Jakob death occurred and experimental
programs halted, British court documents reveal. Correspondence
dating from the mid- '70s presented to a British judicial inquiry
reveal a paper trail between the United States National Institutes
of Health and the British Government indicating the infectiousness
was foreseen," the Los Angeles Times reports.
"Moreover, a
safer method for purifying human growth hormone drugs had long
been available, but scientists involved in the experiments had
ignored it in favor of a cheaper, less labor-intensive option."
In 1989 alone almost
800 million pounds of processed animals were fed to beef and dairy
cattle in the US The USDA has conceded that "the potential
risk of amplification of the BSE agent is much greater in the
United States" than in Britain.
In 1995 five million
tons of processed slaughterhouse leftovers were sold for animal
feed in the United States.
Rendering is a $2.4
billion-a-year industry. "There is simply no such thing in
America as an animal too ravaged by disease, too cancerous, or
too putrid to be welcomed by the embracing arms of the renderer.
In addition to diseased farm animals, the city of Los Angeles
sends some two hundred tons of euthanized cats and dogs to a rendering
plant every month. Added to the blend are the euthanized catches
of animal control agencies and road kill " according to Howard
Lyman, a cattle rancher for 40 years. This is the food fed to
the animals that YOU EAT!
In the US the rendering
industry promised to stop feeding sheep brains to cows years ago;
the FDA confirmed that this ban failed.
Unfortunately just
about everybody lies. "British government officials misled
the public for years over the dangers of British beef and the
risk of "mad cow" (BSE) disease spreading to humans,"
according to Reuters wire service.
"UK Physicians
Told Not to Tell Hemophilia Patients of Possible CJD Blood Concerns."
"Mad Cow - BSE-
CJD Now Likely to Be a Global Infection" according to New
Scientist journal.
BSE has infected a
dozen species of animals that presumably ate infected tissue.
Is Cow's milk
safe? What about cheese?
Although there is a case description in the New England Journal
of Medicine (1992) in which colostrum from a Creutzfeldt-Jakob
diseased woman was found to be infectious to mice, cow's milk
is considered "safe" by the World Health Organization.
In the largest known
US outbreak of cases of CJD to date, in Pennsylvania's Lehigh
Valley, the disease was linked to, among other things, cheese
consumption.
What about
other animals? Are they infected too?
Paul Brown, medical director for the US Public Health
Service, believes that pigs and poultry could be harboring BSE
and passing it on to humans, adding that pigs are especially sensitive
to the disease.
Two epidemiological
studies found pork to be a dietary risk factor in Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Disease (CJD).
The most common misdiagnosis
of CJD is Alzheimer's disease.
How can Prions
be destroyed?
They CAN'T!
The English government
destroyed over 4.5 million cattle and incinerated them at a temperature
of 1100 degrees centigrade. The resulting ash is still considered
infectious and is stored in WW II blimp hangers.
Mad Cow disease can
be passed from the mother to the fetus in the womb.
It can be passed from
a bull to the cow through sperm.
It can be passed from
one species to another quite freely by transfusion of contaminated
blood or consumption of infected material.
BSE is extremely resistant
to high temperatures; it is unaffected by radiation, laboratory
solvents and bleaches.
In other words, it
appears to be virtually indestructible.
How long is the incubation
period for "Mad Cow" Disease in humans (also called
CJD)?
It is estimated that
it may be as long as 20-40 years. But teen-agers and young children
have also died of it. So it can occur much more rapidly than previously
thought.
An infected cow shows
the symptoms of BSE four to seven years after the time of infection.
How are the government
and the cattle industry trying to "muzzle" truth-tellers
about the risks of Mad Cow Disease to the population of America?
Certain states, including
Texas, have passed Food Disparagement Acts. Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado
and North Dakota corporate growers of vegetables and fruits have
won passage of laws making it a crime to falsely denigrate fruits
and vegetables.
Then the corporate
farming industry in conjunction with the government, conspire
to cover-up, distort and withhold the facts from the public. So
a whistle-blower, who is telling the truth, trying to warn the
public, is a "sitting duck" for a lawsuit.
The cattle industry
sued Oprah Winfrey and her guest, Cattle Rancher Howard Lyman,
because they told the truth about the cover-up of Mad Cow Disease.
Even though Oprah Winfrey and Howard Lyman won the court action,
the cattle industry wanted to send a strong message of intimidation
to anyone else who might even think about speaking truth. Fortunately,
in the US, Truth Telling is still a legitimate defense, at least
for the time being.
What other
products or procedures are potentially dangerous? Vaccines,
cosmetics, human growth hormone, thyroid hormone, albumin (a blood
product given in hospitals), blood transfusions, vitamin and mineral
supplements, gelatin in thousands of processed foods, corneal
transplants, surgical instruments, estrogen, progesterone, cortisone,
heparin, Vitamin B12, insulin, gelatin in pill capsules, yogurt,
ice cream, butter, chewing gum, lard, margarine, shortening, egg
substitutes, gravy mixes, cake mixes, whitener in refined sugar
(it's from bones), gelatin desserts, marshmallows, mayonnaise,
sausages and sausage casings, medicines, pet foods, and many other
products.
What can we
do?
1. DON'T believe the government. They have no interest
in protecting you. They are protecting big business and their
own jobs.
2. Stop eating ALL
animal products. Stop eating meat, poultry, dairy products and
eggs.
3. Stop eating processed
food. Most of it contains animal products, even though you would
never suspect it.
4. Do not assume animals
in the wild are not infected. They are.
5. Stop eating sugar
or sugar containing foods. Sugar is "whitened" with
bone meal.
6. Start eating a
diet of fruit, grains and vegetables in their most natural form
The plan is on my videos "You Can't Improve on God"
and "Diseases Don't Just Happen."
This plan will allow
you to be FREE of ALL disease, not just "Mad Cow Disease."
7. Make a determination
to eventually get off all medications. (Don't stop them abruptly.
That can be dangerous) Many medications contain animal products.
In addition, drugs NEVER cure disease, and they ALL have dangerous
side effects. When you start following the Ten Natural Laws of
Health as detailed on my video, "You Can't Improve on God"
you will eventually be able to slowly decrease your drug dosages
and then stop them entirely.
Mad Cow Disease will
be a Global Epidemic that will make AIDS look like a "walk
in the Park." But YOU can be safe from the danger. You don't
have to be afraid. If your immune system is working properly because
you are eating the right diet and living the right lifestyle,
disease can't touch you.
www.drday.com, 1-800-574-2437
Addendum:
These problems were
predicted OVER 100 years ago. Talk about a prophet! Read these
quotations!
The following quotations
were written OVER 100 YEARS AGO by the most prolific woman author
of nonfiction in the US, Ellen White! (Notice the year written
at the end of each quotation):
"Disease in cattle
is making meat eating a dangerous matter...Disease is contracted
by the use of meat. The diseased flesh of these dead carcasses
is sold in the market places, and disease among men is the sure
result.
"There is no
safety in the eating of the flesh of dead animals, and in a short
time the milk of the cows will also be excluded from the diet...
In a short time it will not be safe to use anything that comes
from the animal creation." (Written in 1898)
"Physicians who
claim to understand the human organism ought not to encourage
their patients to subsist on the flesh of dead animals. They should
point out the increase of disease in the animal kingdom. The testimony
of examiners is that very few animals are free from disease, and
that the practice of eating largely of meat is contracting diseases
of all kinds, -- cancers, tumors, tuberculosis and numbers of
other like affections." (1897)
"Swine's flesh
above all other flesh meats, produces a bad state of the blood.
Those who eat freely of pork cannot help but be diseased...The
eating of pork has produced scrofula, leprosy and cancerous tumors.
Pork eating is still causing the most intense suffering to the
human race. (1865)
"The light given
me is that it will not be very long before we shall have to give
up using any animal food. Even milk will have to be discarded.
Disease is accumulating rapidly...man has cursed the earth. The
habits and practices of men have brought the earth into such a
condition that some other food than animal food must be substituted
for the human family. We do not need flesh food at all."
(1899)
"Could you know
just the nature of the meat you eat, could you see the animals
when living from which the flesh is taken when dead, you would
turn with loathing from your flesh meats. The very animals whose
flesh you eat, are frequently so diseased that, if left alone,
they would die of themselves; but while the breath of life is
in them, they are killed and brought to market. You take directly
into your system poison of the worst kind, and yet you don't realize
it." (1870)
"Many die of
diseases wholly due to meat eating, when the real cause is scarcely
suspected by themselves or others. Some do not immediately feel
its effects, but this is no evidence that it does not hurt them.
It may be doing its work surely upon the system, yet for the time
being the victim may realize nothing of it." (1890)
"In many places
fish become so contaminated by the filth on which they feed as
to be a cause of disease. This is especially the case where the
fish come in contact with the sewage of large cities. The fish
that are fed on the contents of the drains may pass into distant
waters, and may be caught where the water is pure and fresh. Thus
when used as food they bring disease and death on those who do
not suspect the danger." (1905)
Dr. Lorraine Day
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