USDA: Private Club Run By American Meat Institute
US Regime Pollutes UN With Mad Cow Muzzlers And Warmongers
UPDATE:
THE UNITED NATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES
Ann Veneman of the USDA and American Meat Institute
controls Unicef
Paul Wolfowitz, agent of Likud war profiteers and billionaire
shark capitalists.. controls the World Bank
John Bolton, former meatmonger for butchers, is now
ambassador to the UN
Kofi Annan is a corporation whose major shareholders
are profiteers
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UPDATE:
The Swiss pharmaceutical Roche has a special in
with pharmaceutically dominated World Health Organization
... pharmwhores such as NPR are pushing the socalled
Roche vaccine against Avian Flu.. which in reality can do
nothing since the problem is Mad Chicken or avian spongiform
encephalopathy
UPDATE: Is China experiencing Mad Pig Disease, Porcine Spongiform Encephalopathy? fraudulently
called streptococcus by the World Health Organization?
BEIJING, Aug. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Four more cases of a pig-borne endemic were reported in southwest China's Sichuan Province as of 12:00 am Friday, but no death was reported, according to the Chinese Ministry of Health.
With 11 patients discharged from hospital on Friday, 134 people are still in hospital for medical treatment and 14 of them are in critical condition, the ministry said. Enditem
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With Ann Veneman, mentored by the American Meat Institute
heading UNICEF after years of lying about Mad Cow, Mad Pig,
Mad Sheep etc. and John Bolton former meat lobbyist as ambassador to the UN,
neocon warmonger Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank and other war profiteers
sprinkled throughout, the UN has become the Mad Cow UN.
Angela Seabrook is better than average at NPR, but today
worked in a McDonald's plug into her news. NPR allegedly
was left 200 million by Joan Kroc of McDonald's and regularly
gives gratis ads to the world's biggest unionbuster and mammal butcher
in its 'news'.
http://www.mcspotlight.org http://www.mccruelty.com aseabrook@npr.org
Please find out what war profiteer, animal abuse, or
environmentally destructive companies your mutual fund
retirement pension or other funds are invested in and disinvest
in those companies or build a network of change.
Please tell the poster good sources for green money investment
(The UN is a racist and violent organization whose Security Council
is 80% white nations. All Security Council members
are WMD holders, yet make a big issue of Iran, Korea
or other countries joining the bullies club.)
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comments@healthcentral.com
webmaster@healthcentral.com
Dean Edell polluted the airwaves with a comment
that it was better to adopt a puppy than picket McDonald's.
http://www.mcspotlight.org http://www.mccruelty.com
http://www.pcrm.org
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A RACIST SECURITY COUNCIL
*
a UN.. with 5 'permanent
Security Council members'
.. 4 of them predominantly
white nations
.. not a single representative
of 1 billion bronze Indians
or 90 million black Nigerians
or hundreds of millions of
olive skinned Indonesians
*
demonstraters waterhosed
.. beaten with clubs
.. stabbed
.. their votes erased by Diebold
.. intimidated at polls by police
.. instructed by a Jacksonville Florida daily newspaper
to vote every page of the ballot (20,000 ballots invalidated)
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executed at 3 to 4 times the rate
of whites by GOP governors
and GOP unelected Supreme Court
justices who serially kill with their
pens
WW1 black hero
came home to US
and was lynched
*
Pregnant black
woman.. denied
entrance to an allwhite
hospital..
died in the parking lot
*
the US Public Health Service
ignoring its mandate to treat
epidemics.. allows AIDS
to ravage America
*
a World Health Org. whose
smallpox vaccine program
according to Pres Mbeki of S Africa,
Pierce Wright of the London Times,
and others.. is the cause of AIDS
in Africa
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html
http://www.naacp.org http://www.aclu.org
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GOD Thank You for now ending
. Canadian sealclubbing, Calgary Stampede, logging, grizzly hunts
. Mexican and Spanish bullfights
. Norwegian, US, Japanese, UK, and Icelandic whale killing
. Chinese bear farms
. Danish pig slaughter
. African poaching and big game hunts
. Australian and New Zealander sheep and kangaroo abuse
. French forced feeding of geese and horsemeat trade
. Korean dog eating
. Vietnamese cat eating
. Brazilian, Argentine, American, Canadian, Australian, British,
New Zealand and all meat industries
. Canadian, Russian, American fur trade
Thank You God for now exorcising the fishermen of Newfoundland
and those everywhere who have a commercial or psychopathic interest in
slaughter.
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World Health Org. Cause of AIDS?
There are thousands of internet sites about the
complicity of Merck, the World Health Organization and 'smallpox vaccine' in the spreading of AIDS. Pierce Wright, science
editor of the London Times, mentioned that the 17 countries
with the most AIDS incidence match in exact sequence (odds
of this are in the zillions) the 17 countries
with the most 'smallpox' vaccine.
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The WHO continues to promote toxic pharmaceuticals...
Bill Gates is doing the same.
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Smithfield, the US' biggest operator of concentration camps
for pigs, is still putting antibiotics in the food of pigs. Elizabeth
Dole, senator from NC, has been silent about the animal
and environmental abuse.
http://www.hogwatch.org
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4 of 5 Security Council countries are predominantly white
Most of the WMD holders are predominantly white nations
US France England Russia
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May 2005 - Legislation to ban the force feeding of ducks and geese in the production of foie gras is now pending in four different states: New York, Massachusetts, Illinois and Oregon. These bills were introduced this year on the heels of the successful California ban, signed into law in 2004 by Governor Schwarzenegger. (See below for more information.) For updates and information on how you can help with the bans in the New York, Massachusetts, Illinois and Oregon, go to
http://www.nofoiegras.org.
Posted by sb11 on 08-03-2005 05:41 PM:
Avian flu scam.. door for further pharmaceutical theft
The socalled avian flu pandemic is a door for further
pharmaceutical theft from the taxpayer... as well
as the dissemination of toxic 'vaccines' .. in the name
of prevention of bird flu... which is in reality avian spongiform
encephalopathy or Mad Chicken Disease
The Boston Globe.. owned by the Sulzberger family of the
NY Times... is the source of this article
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Aid in flu pandemic concerns health chief
Says means to help patients are flawed
By Kevin Freking, Associated Press | August 3, 2005
WASHINGTON -- In the event of a flu pandemic or a bioterrorism attack, help could arrive via door-to-door mail delivery or from a local fire station, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said yesterday.
Leavitt, in an interview, said it was clear that the system of delivering medicines in the United States is inadequate in the event of an emergency.
He said it was ''in some ways an absolute certainty" that a flu pandemic would occur at some point in the United States.
''If it happens anywhere, there is risk everywhere," Leavitt added.
The federal government is particularly concerned about bird flu. Since 2004, that strain has sickened 109 people, 55 of whom have died, because people lack immunity to the virus.
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17 cattle abuse and slaughter states in the Western
and Midwest US have been hit by drought.
God send rain simultaneously as You shut
down animal slaughter industries
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IS THIS REALLY PORCINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY
CHINESE PIG FARMERS CHARACTERISTICALLY DO NOT EXCLUDE ANYTHING
FROM WHAT THEY TERM PIG FOOD
Avian influenza: H5N1 detected in pigs in China
20 August 2004
A researcher from China’s Harbin Veterinary Research Institute has today presented initial evidence that pigs from farms in parts of China have been infected with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. The findings, set out in a table and without further supporting data, were presented today at an international symposium on SARS and avian influenza held in Beijing.
WHO has requested confirmation and further details about this study.
Pigs are known to be susceptible to infection with avian influenza viruses. However, natural infection of pigs with the H5N1 strain has not been previously reported.
In order to assess the implications for human health, it is important to know whether the reported infections in pigs are rare events, possibly caused by contact between pigs and wild birds. Wild aquatic birds, which are the natural reservoir of all influenza A viruses, can carry the H5N1 strain without developing symptoms, and are known to excrete large quantities of the virus in their faeces.
A comparison of the H5N1 strain isolated in pigs with strains recently circulating in poultry populations in parts of Asia is needed to determine whether the virus is being passed directly from poultry to pigs. Evidence of direct transmission of H5N1 from poultry to large numbers of pigs would be of particular concern, as this would increase opportunities for a new influenza virus with pandemic potential to emerge.
Pigs have been implicated in the emergence of new influenza viruses responsible for two of the previous century’s influenza pandemics. Pigs have receptors in their respiratory tract that make them susceptible to infection with human and avian influenza viruses. If a pig is simultaneously infected with both a human and an avian influenza virus, it can serve as a “mixing vessel”, facilitating the exchange of genetic material between the two viruses in a process known as “reassortment”. The resulting new virus, which will not be recognized by the human immune system, will have pandemic potential if it retains sufficient human genes to allow efficient human-to-human transmission, and if it causes severe disease in humans.
Confirmation of H5N1 infection in pigs would add complexity to the epidemiology of this disease, but needs to be viewed in perspective. During the peak of the poultry outbreak of H5N1 in Viet Nam earlier this year, extensive testing of pigs on farms where poultry were heavily infected failed to find evidence of infection in pigs. In addition, Hong Kong authorities regularly perform random testing for the H5 avian influenza virus subtype in pigs imported from mainland China. No infection in pigs has been detected to date.
WHO, in collaboration with FAO and OIE, will be assessing the implications of reported H5N1 infection in pigs as further details become available.
Posted by sb11 on 08-05-2005 10:10 PM:
London demo
Don't forget that tomorrow we demonstrate in front of
the Thai Embassy in London to ask for the immediate
repatriation of the smuggled orangutans held at Safari
World in Bangkok.
From 9 am to 12:30 pm, Thai Embassy, Queens Gate,
London.
Please join us.
Michelle
www.sendthembackhome.org
Michelle Desilets
Director
BOS UK
www.savetheorangutan.org.uk
www.savetheorangutan.info
"Primates Helping Primates"
Please sign our petition to rescue over 100 smuggled orangutans in Thailand:
http://www.thePetitionSite.com/takeaction/822035733
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/398531952
Ban Israeli horse racing
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BLM
The US Bureau of Land Management has always been dominated
by the same cowboys who have caused drought in 17
cattle producing states. Recently under the Cheney regime,
standards for cattle grazing on federal lands have been further
relaxed.. destroying more sapling trees, more of the fragile
environment, and polluting streams.
Posted by sb11 on 08-07-2005 09:02 PM:
An Intelligence Agency Employed Author?
One whose commitment to truth seems questionable is
Richard Preston, author of The Cobra Event, whose book promotes neocon
warmonger disinformation about Iraq WMD's. He justified
animal torture done by the pharmwhores at the CDC,
and failed to mention as he described an alleged 52 Russian bioterror
labs that 300 university labs alone in the US are researching
on anthrax.
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Baltimore Sun Eclipsed
The Baltimore Sun can be counted on to promote
animal torture and pharm scams... today it ballyhooed
the human trials for Mad Chicken Disease 'vaccines'
... a phony cure for disease misnamed 'avian flu'
Posted by sb11 on 08-07-2005 09:06 PM:
Anthony Fauci, First Among Frankensteins
what did Anthony Fauci, mad Frankenstein at NIH
have this woman researching on that she died
of cancer at age 26?
Brain-Dead Mother Is Taken Off Life Support
Healthy Premature Baby Is Likely to Avoid Cancer
By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 4, 2005; Page A01
After her husband and parents said their last goodbyes and after a priest offered a prayer -- words about weeping in a valley of tears -- Susan Torres, her improbable mission accomplished, was unhooked yesterday morning from the machines that sustained not only her body but that of her baby for the past three months.
The 26-year-old Arlington woman, who was felled by cancer and declared brain-dead in May, but who gave birth by Caesarean section Tuesday to the girl she had hoped for, died shortly thereafter. It was the end her family knew was inevitable, but it was no less difficult to fathom.
Torres gave birth to a baby girl Tuesday. The 26-year-old NIH researcher was left brain-dead after suffering a stroke in May. (AP)
"We are thrilled with the baby, but this is a very difficult day," Justin Torres, Susan Torres's brother-in-law, said at a news conference at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. He added that years from now, he would certainly tell his niece about the woman who brought her into the world.
"I'm going to tell her her mother was one of the toughest women I've ever met, that she was absolutely determined in what she did. . . . And that, 'You cannot believe how many people fought for you,' " he said.
Jason Torres, who slept by his wife's side for three months, whose cell phone still carries her voice and who made the final decision to unhook the machines, stayed away from the cameras and crowds of reporters who had come to the hospital to find out, among other things, how his new daughter, Susan Anne Catherine Torres, was doing.
The answer, a team of doctors said, was pretty well.
At a gestational age of 27 weeks, at 1 pound 13 ounces, the baby came out crying, kicking and "very vigorous," said Donna Tilden-Archer, medical director of neonatology at the hospital. The infant is breathing on her own, receiving supplemental oxygen and pressure to keep her tiny airspace open. Her heart appears normal and is beating regularly.
An initial examination of the placenta showed no signs of the melanoma that had spread throughout Susan Torres's body, and further microscopic testing is being conducted, said Christopher McManus, the attending physician. There is no way to say for certain whether the baby will develop melanoma. In similar cases in which the placenta is afflicted with melanoma, babies develop the cancer less than 25 percent of the time.
The baby's premature birth presents additional complications, such as immature digestive, respiratory and immune systems, but again, Tilden-Archer said, the child who had about everything going against her now has statistics on her side: Babies born at 27 weeks survive about 90 percent of the time. "We are ecstatic she is here," Tilden-Archer said, "and that she seems to be healthy."
The decision to deliver the baby came somewhat suddenly, nearly three months after Susan Torres lost consciousness, was declared brain-dead and was left on a ventilator, IVs and other machines in the long-shot hope her baby might grow faster than her cancer.
Torres had had melanoma as a teenager but had long been given a clean bill of health; doctors said the melanoma apparently lay dormant for those years.
By the time she reached the hospital, doctors said, the melanoma had metastasized in her brain, and she was declared brain-dead within days. The cancer eventually spread throughout her brain, her lymph nodes, her lungs, her adrenal glands and her liver, and it had begun to spread even more quickly in recent days. Then her blood pressure dropped, her heart began beating irregularly and her white blood cell count spiked, raising concerns about infection.
After three months, it seemed that all the sophisticated machinery medicine had to offer could not overcome the momentum of her body. Ultimately, said Rodney McLaren, medical director for maternal-fetal medicine at the hospital, the risks of keeping the baby in her mother's womb outweighed the risks of delivering her prematurely.
And so, on Monday night, the decision was made.
About 7 a.m. Tuesday, Susan Torres, who had been a microbiologist with the National Institutes of Health, was wheeled into an operating room. Jason Torres and her parents were outside, and when the baby came, they were able to see her through a glass window, doctors said. She is 13.5 inches long.
Justin Torres said it was a wonderful moment and that his brother, who had not slept in days, was overjoyed. Everyone "took a real deep breath," he said, adding that Jason marveled at the size of his little girl's fingers and feet.
At the same time, Justin Torres said, "we knew what was coming next."
Only 12 similar cases have been reported in the medical literature since the 1970s.
Jason Torres met his wife in college and has said that he always admired her competitive spirit and strong will. The couple had a son, Peter, now 2, and were happy to get the news that another baby was on the way. When Jason Torres made the decision to try to save the baby in May, he was certain it was what his wife, who refused testing for birth defects, would have wanted.
In the months that followed, he slept by her side, held her hand and talked to her and their baby. He accepted the doctor's diagnosis that his wife had no hope of recovery, but talking made things a bit easier, Justin Torres has said.
Other things did, as well. Yesterday, Justin Torres said that the family, which is Catholic, had "literally been lifted up in prayer."
He said that he and his brother would sometimes sit in the intensive care unit and read letters sent from around the world and down the street. Besides money to help with staggering medical bills, people have sent such items as baby blankets. A woman sent them a series of photos of her baby, who was born at 26 weeks, showing how she grew up healthy and strong.
Yesterday morning, Torres said, his brother made the decision to turn off the ventilator and machines. The Rev. Paul Scalia offered Susan Torres the last rites of the Catholic church and said a prayer, "Hail, Holy Queen."
"Her passing is a testament to the truth that human life is a gift from God," Justin Torres said, "and that children are always to be fought for, even if life requires -- as it did of Susan -- the last full measure of devotion."
Posted by sb11 on 09-11-2005 09:17 PM:
http://www.heifer.org/
Heifer International is polluting churches around the world
with the idea that the famine, environmental destruction,
animal agony, cancer, heart disease associated with
the animal slavery business should be continued. It dovetails
the animal promotion of Unicef which has published
animal flesh recipe books.
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Unicef has published recipe books in which a dead animal
from each country is featured
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(TULAREMIA IS AN ANIMAL FLESH DISEASE)
Rare Germ Found in D.C. on Sept. 24, 25 (DC Protest Days) Tularemia Is Highly Infectious; Can Cause Pneumonia and Systemic Infection 30 Sep 2005 A relatively rare biological agent has been detected in air filters serving Washington D.C. in recent weeks, ABC News has learned -- but current evidence does not show any indication whatsoever of terrorism [?!?]. The federal government found six air filters around the nation's capital checked on Sept. 24 and 25 contained "trace amounts" of tularemia, a type of bacteria. No additional traces have been detected since Sept. 24 and 25. [Gee, how blatant can they get? We need to start fighting back. Tolerating their terrorism is becoming the greater crime. --Lori Price.]
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New Scientist: Irish Food Safety Auth. Found Prions in Chicken (Mad Chicken)
18:05 23 May 02
NewScientist.com news service
Fears that the infectious prion proteins that cause BSE could be present in chicken fillets have been raised after bovine protein was found in breast fillets tested by the Irish Food Safety Authority (FSAI).
The tests on the Dutch imports follow a report by the UK Food Standards Agency in December 2001 that undeclared pig proteins had been used to "bulk up" chicken from Holland and Belgium.
The FSAI also found undeclared hydrolysed collagen in 26 per cent of the chicken fillets. Species-specific DNA tests on 30 chicken samples then revealed that 17 contained bovine DNA, porcine DNA or both. As yet, the authorities have been unable to trace the source of the undeclared bovine material.
Peter Smith, chairman of SEAC, the UK government's advisory body on BSE and its human form vCJD, told New Scientist: "If the source of the bovine material was fit for human consumption under EU regulations, then these findings pose no significant health risk. The problem is we don't know."
It is not illegal to add proteins to chicken, provided the additives are included in labelling of the meat. Protein additives are often extracted from old animals, which are not suitable for sale as meat, or from body parts such as skin, bones and ligaments. But this process does not destroy prions, the infectious proteins that cause BSE.
Meat or milk
Wayne Anderson, chief food scientist at FSAI, told the Guardian newspaper that there is a theoretical risk of BSE contamination. "The presence of bovine proteins in chicken is disgusting. What if it's material not controlled under the EU's specified risk material restrictions?" he says.
However, FSAI's director, Alan Reilly, was anxious to play down the risk. He told New Scientist: "There may be many explanations for the bovine material, but we won't know until the Dutch authorities come back and tell us.
"It is possible the bovine DNA signal is due to casein, a protein found in milk, which is often added to chicken and not linked to BSE," he says. "And the collagen protein could be from chicken skin." But Reilly confirmed that bovine DNA had been found in all the samples containing collagen.
Yvonne Huigen, a spokesperson from the Inspectorate for Health Protection in the Netherlands, says Dutch officials are trying to identify the source of the bovine additive. However she said there was no reason to restrict chicken exports: "At the moment we are dealing with a labelling problem, it is not a health problem."
In a separate move, scientists advising the UK Food Standards Agency called on Thursday for an EU-wide ban on the 15 per cent of sausages that are made with sheep intestines, in a bid to reduce a theoretical risk of contracting BSE from sheep.
Gaia Vince
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feeding animals blood, sewage, brain stems, eyes, uteri
Farm-fresh food newscientist.com
WHAT on earth are we feeding our farm animals? Farmers will apparently stop at nothing in their quest for cheaper ways of producing meat, milk and eggs. And that includes feeding waste and even sewage to livestock.
The practice can leave a nasty legacy. Cattle developed mad cow disease after eating other cows' brains. In Belgium, chickens fed waste put dioxin into the human food chain. And the French feed their animals sewage. Pretty disgusting, right?
Well, perhaps not. Global demand for meat, milk and eggs is booming, especially in the developing world. We can never meet this demand by only grazing animals on pasture. And if we feed them too much grain, people might starve (see "Protein at a price"). The alternative is to feed them things that humans cannot eat. So why not wastes? Indeed, why not excrement?
In the European Union, it is illegal to use sewage sludge in animal feed. Last year, five French rendering plants were fined for hosing down their floors, filtering out bits of carcass that had ended up in the waste-water treatment system, and putting them back in the pot. Toilets at the plant flushed into the same system but the results were sterilised. Was that so bad? Some animals eat excrement naturally and pigs are still fed it on some cattle farms. True, the BSE crisis showed us what happens when a pathogen recycled in feed isn't killed by sterilisation. We need precautions, such as not feeding a species its own waste.
If you stay alert to dangers to human health, then feeding sewage to animals is no more disgusting than the business of slaughtering them. Having killed the beast, we ought to use as much of it as we can.
We should, of course, do what we can to make animal feed safer. In North America, excrement from hen houses is fed directly to cattle, which thrive on the protein and uric acid it contains. But occasionally a dead bird gets mixed in, and this can give the cattle botulism. These risks would be avoided if the waste were fermented as silage or pasteurised. But in the EU it is simply dumped or burnt, as is the protein-rich bacterial sludge that grows in waste-water treatment tanks. German researchers have found that pigs thrive on this material, so wouldn't this be a better use for it?
We need more of this research. The key is to work out how we can safely feed waste to animals instead of burning or dumping it. As the demand for meat in developing countries rises, farmers there are increasingly feeding chicken litter, rendered carcasses and myriad other kinds of waste to their livestock. These countries do not have the money to ensure that what they are doing is safe. If people in rich countries can get over their repulsion, and decide to replace some of the grain their own animals eat with waste, the safety research is more likely to get done.
Feeding livestock on waste may be unpalatable, but it makes sense. After all, which makes your queasier? Knowing your cheese came from a cow that dined on sterilised chicken droppings-or knowing it came from a cow raised on grain that could have fed a hungry child?
Debora Mackenzie
From New Scientist 18 March 2000.
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KIDNAPPING
By Heifer International
have there been countless
kidnappings
done while calves and lambs
and kids were napping
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http://www.heifer.org
Heifer Int'l promotes animal slavery and death, disease and inefficient use of acreage
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KFC, Red Lobster, and Olive Garden..
all boycotted by chicken and seal protectors
around the world.. are responding to the freefalling
sales of the chains by spamming
email boxes with free certificates
http://www.kfccruelty.com
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Orkin Kills Creatures and Poisons Waters
Orkin Insecticides:
Another House contaminated - another family ruined
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A Boise couple say their lives are in ruin after exterminators used Dursban in their home
Sunday, May 7, 2000
By Alex Pulaski and Brent Walth of The Oregonian staff
BOISE -- Before fleeing their home in the belief it was killing them, before the lawyers, the expert witnesses, the dead dog and the bankruptcy, Bill and Laurie Enger had just one question: Why is this happening?
Laurie Enger's numbed brain offered no help. Nor could anyone else explain why, in those spring days in 1994, her pounding skull forbade sleep or why her lungs pumped out fluids. Or why, when she walked down her hallway, she careened off the walls as if she were a drunk on a rolling ship.
The Engers later believed they had found their answer: They had been poisoned by Dursban, the most widely used insecticide in America.
The Engers say exposure to Dursban, sprayed in their home by Orkin Exterminating, ruined their lives and finances. Their story is one of the latest examples of what regulators say are the dangers posed by Dursban. The mounting problmes with the bug killer have led the Environmental Protection Agency to target the insecticide for what could be dramatic restrictions.
The EPA changes -- affecting Dursban's hundreds of uses, from termite control to flea collars -- could come within a few weeks.
Recognizing the EPA's growing concerns, Orkin already has stopped using Dursban for residential jobs unless the homeowners specifically request it.
In the Engers' case, an expert the couple hired concluded that Orkin misused Dursban in their home and found residues of the insecticide 3,400 times higher than levels considered safe.
But thousands of reports of poisonings in EPA files come from Dursban use well within the current rules. The agency's own scenarios of how Dursban is used in homes and yards conclude that the insecticide poses a serious risk, especially to children.
Orkin, which denied any wrongdoing, last month paid $175,000 to settle a suit brought by the Engers. Orkin officials declined to discuss the case. In court papers, Orkin said the Engers, who had previous health problems, could not link their suffering to the company's actions.
The Engers' doctors have concluded that both are permanently disabled from toxic exposure but acknowledge they cannot connect the health problems to the Dursban sprayed by Orkin.
The Engers, though, have little doubt.
"We had no language to conceive that nerve poison could be sprayed in your house," Laurie Enger said. "Now that I do, I feel like I'm in a burning theater, screaming about the danger, and my voice is coming out like a croak."
A pesky house problem Laurie Enger, 55, once envisioned herself as the spotter in the crow's nest, searching out new shores, fast currents, green slivers of opportunity. Bill, 61, her husband of 36 years, held the tiller of the family business.
"It was enthusiastic and dynamic and there was so much energy," their daughter, Nancy Enger Barrera, says of her parents.
For 20 years, the Engers lived in Southern California, running an oil-drilling company in which they held partial ownership. But they lost control of it in the early 1980s when the bank called in their loans.
The Engers moved to Sun Valley, Idaho, and later Boise, where they marketed portable painting systems to cover graffiti and dreamed of selling out to a national or regional paint company.
Meanwhile, the Engers had an everyday but pesky problem in their house: ants.
Laurie didn't worry much about it until one of her two daughters mentioned that they looked like carpenter ants, wood eaters that are the termites of the Northwest. She plucked Orkin Exterminating from the Yellow Pages.
Orkin is one of the biggest and best-known names in the exterminating business, made famous through its Orkin Man ad campaigns. The company specializes in residential jobs to rid homeowners of termites, roaches, ants, fleas and rodents.
Owned by Atlanta-based Rollins Inc., the 99-year-old Orkin serves 1.7 million customers through more than 400 branches in North America. With Orkin as its primary business, Rollins reports annual revenues of $586 million.
The Orkin representative who called on the Engers was Steven J. Christensen.
Before Christensen set to work, Laurie Enger says, she told him she suffered from respiratory allergies. According to her account, Christensen told her not to worry, that his products were safe and were routinely sprayed in schools and nursing homes.
In a deposition two years later, Christensen said he handed Enger a list of the chemicals he might spray and suggested that she consult with her doctor before spraying. Enger denies that Christensen ever issued the warning.
Ongoing sickness On March 5, 1994, Christensen went to work to kill the carpenter ants in the Engers' ranch-style home on Stone Ridge Way. Laurie Enger was gone on a trip, but Bill Enger remembered feeling sick in the days that followed.
When he left for Sacramento on business a few days later, he said he felt flu-like symptoms and could barely speak. The couple returned home to Boise near midnight on March 22, more than two weeks after Orkin had done its work.
In the days that followed, Laurie Enger remembers being robbed of sleep. Her head throbbed. Her throat knotted. She could barely breathe. She sat doubled over at night, a roll of paper towels in hand to catch the fluids she coughed up.
Doctors could not pinpoint a problem. Leaving the house to go to the doctor's office, she felt her symptoms ease and she would feel euphoric. Doctors' reports pointed to possible allergies. Maybe menopause. Maybe something in her head.
Three months later, rummaging through a kitchen drawer, she recalls finding a receipt from Orkin. She had forgotten about the spraying. She wondered, Could there be a connection?
She called the Idaho Department of Agriculture, which regulates pest control companies. Agency officials concluded, based upon Christensen's statements and the labels on the chemicals he used, that he had done nothing wrong.
The Engers shampooed the carpets twice and did other work on the house, but say their health problems persisted.
Laurie Enger developed a stutter and says she couldn't think clearly. Bill Enger's health worsened. He became more depressed and lethargic, spending more time at home. He dropped 60 pounds from his usual 220-pound frame.
"There was a period of two or three weeks where I was afraid to reach over and touch him because he'd be dead," Laurie Enger said.
They debated between themselves and with their daughters whether they would have to leave their home to survive.
They had already buried Paddles, their 11-year-old black Labrador mix, after he developed a cough, could not control his bladder and lost feeling in his rear legs. The family vet never pinpointed why Paddles became ill, but what the Engers learned convinced them the symptoms were consistent with damage from nerve agents.
In July 1996, the Engers finally moved out.
Orkin in and out of court
A few months before leaving their home, the Engers filed suit against Orkin and Christensen. Records produced by Orkin for the Engers' suit show that disgruntled customers have taken the company to court 74 times nationwide since 1987. The company has won two-thirds of the cases.
In the Engers' case, Orkin and Christensen deny any wrongdoing. In court papers, the company says chemicals were used properly.
Among other issues, Orkin attorneys focused on the Engers' medical history. Both had been treated for depression for years, and Laurie Enger reported symptoms two months before the spraying to her doctors that included labored breathing, throat constriction, poor memory and nervousness.
But an expert brought in by the Engers said the trail leads back to the overwhelming presence of the nerve-agent pesticides persisting in the Engers' home, a chemical called chlorpyrifos but better known as Dursban.
Dursban, the bug killer sprayed in the Engers' home, is a cousin of the deadly nerve gas developed by German scientists during World War II. Dursban and similar insecticides, called organophosphates, kill by depleting the body of enzymes essential to normal operation of the nervous system.
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Scores of lab tests over the years show Dursban can enter the body through the skin or the lungs. As with all organophosphates, Dursban at low levels of exposure causes dizziness and nausea. As exposures increase, victims can suffer lasting neurological problems. At higher levels, Dursban will kill.
What sets Dursban apart from similar bug killers is both its potency and the wide array of products in which it's used. Environmental Protection Agency records show Americans used 20.9 million pounds of Dursban last year.
Dursban in everyday products
Farmers use the same insecticide under a different trade name -- Lorsban -- on crops, most often on corn. But the EPA counts 822 products that contain Dursban that come into contact with people every day. Its manufacturer, Dow AgroSciences, says 70 percent of Dursban is used to kill termites. But other Dursban products are used outdoors on lawns and shrubs, and indoors in offices, schools, hotels, hospitals and restaurants.
Dursban also is used frequently in pet flea collars. These opportunities for exposure have led to about 7,000 accidental poisonings every year involving Dursban and other chlorpyrifos-based products -- more than any other insecticide of its type, EPA reports say.
New York's attorney general called for a ban on Dursban earlier this year after a Rotterdam, N.Y., woman miscarried twice and her husband and 3-year-old son experienced health problems that they allege stemmed from a 1996 Dursban spraying for termites in their home.
Dursban's dangers have prompted a sweeping review by EPA, which is now considering ways to curb the insecticide use both on crops and for residential use. EPA officials considered 11 different scenarios in which people might face a typical Dursban exposure. The agency concluded typical uses -- including Dursban use on lawns, in cracks and crevices inside the home, and in pet collars -- posed too great of a health risk, especially for children.
In court documents, Orkin and Christensen said Dursban was applied consistent with the label and the law. The Orkin applicator, Christensen, said in pretrial depositions that he followed proper procedures when spraying the Enger home for carpenter ants.
Expert stunned by toxin levels
The Engers' hired expert, Richard Lipsey, a former EPA toxicologist, has often served as an expert witness in similar cases; Orkin itself had hired Lipsey in many cases to help investigate claims of pesticide problems.
When he looked at the Engers' home, Lipsey said in pretrial testimony, what he found stunned him. Tests of the carpet -- already cleaned twice by the Engers -- showed high levels of Dursban.
Lipsey testified that Dursban levels of 5 to 25 micrograms per square foot would be considered safe. In his career, he said, he had never seen levels exceeding 100 micrograms per square foot.
The results from the Engers' house: 85,000 micrograms of Dursban per square foot.
Lipsey said that Christensen used overkill. Rather than seeking out the ant nest, Christensen sprayed inside the house's walls, drilling holes from the outside and applying the bug killer through switch plate holes from the inside.
Lipsey concluded the holes were not properly capped and that Dursban had been spilled in the house entryway and was tracked inside.
"You don't soak the house with Dursban," Lipsey said in a deposition. "It's negligence; willful, wanton, reckless misuse of a neurotoxic chemical."
Day in court won't come
In May 1996, Orkin issued a service alert to its branches advising that "aerosols, dusts and large volumes of pesticides should be avoided" around clients with respiratory problems.
The Engers, saying they were too sick to work, filed for bankruptcy protection, lost their home in foreclosure, saw their cars repossessed and know that most of their personal belongings ended up at the dump. They moved in with their daughter Nancy and her husband and settled into a routine as their long-delayed trial approached.
Bill did dishes, watched TV and picked up his grandson from school. Laurie often cruised the Internet and even created her own Web site, where she tried to publicize her case.
Bill Enger once told his wife that if they left their house on Stone Ridge Way, he feared they would break into a million pieces. A trial wouldn't glue their life together or restore their health, but it would allow them a chance to tell their story and maybe, if they won, pay their bills and own their own home again.
But none of their preparation had equipped them for the possibility that Orkin, through a bankruptcy court action, could keep their suit from going before a jury.
Laurie Enger spent years preparing for her day in court against Orkin. Now it will probably never come.
"It's like you can take an eraser to justice," she said.
Here's another note from Mrs. Enger
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Animal Rights Groups Wage War on Banks
Animal Rights Groups Attack Lab by Focusing on Banks
By Dean Schabner
April 4, 2001 - When daredevils break into research laboratories to "liberate" the animals used in experiments it may hamper the work of scientists, but animal rights activists in Europe have found it is much more effective to focus on research companies' wallets, and now they are bringing such campaigns to the United States.
Police say 14 beagles were taken from the Huntingdon Life Sciences lab in East Millstone, N.J., on Sunday, and demonstrators gathered outside the company's office on Monday, but that is a minor annoyance compared to what animal rights activists have done in their focus on the banks and brokerage houses that deal with the lab's finances.
Huntingdon drew animal rights activists' attention in 1997, when undercover films made at the lab by British television showed beagles being hit in the mouth and thrown against the wall by laughing workers, monkeys being operated on as they screamed in pain and other horrors. Investigations in both England and the United States as recently as 1996 found violations at the labs.
On this side of the Atlantic the campaign has been relatively quiet, but having been successful in getting a handful of British financial institutions to drop their involvement with Huntingdon, which contracts drug testing for pharmaceutical firms, animal rights organizations say they are now turning their attention to a pair of U.S. firms that have stood by the lab.
The Animal Defense League, the Animal Liberation Front and Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty save their fiercest tactics in the battle against the lab for the banks that provide its backing, battering away with e-mails, threats, demonstrations and bad publicity to convince investors to pull out.
And it has been effective.
Finely Focused Campaigns
In 17 months of intensive action focused on Huntingdon, the activists have convinced Merrill Lynch, Citibank, HSBC, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Dresdener Kleinwort Wasserstein and Trimark to discontinue their involvement with the lab. When the Arkansas-based Stephens Group Inc. stepped forward in January to provide backing, the lab's opponents sicced their troops on them, and they have also identified the Bank of New York as a target.
"The campaign isn't just a few people standing outside with placards," said a spokesman for Huntingdon, who asked that his name be withheld for fear of violence against himself and his family. "These people have been entirely focused on one company at a time. They use abuse, intimidation, threats, visits to people's homes. There have been cars blown up, two people beaten outside their homes. And as soon as people pull away, they move on to the next supporter and the next supporter."
A recent posting on one animal rights Web site called for animal rights activists to turn their focus on Stephens Inc., which according to a statement from Huntingdon helped the research company refinance and avoid bankruptcy after other banks had pulled out.
The posting calls for an all-out e-mail campaign against the investment firm, offering a lengthy list of addresses and a proposed letter to be sent.
"I am writing today to express my outrage at Stephens Inc.'s decision to support animal cruelty," the suggested letter says in part. "Stephens Inc. is the primary financer and largest share holder in Huntingdon Life Sciences, a controversial animal testing laboratory that kills roughly 180,000 animals every year in painful and unnecessary chemical tests. Huntingdon has been exposed 5 times since 1997 for animal abuse. Undercover video footage shows workers punching frightened beagle puppies in the face, taunting animals who were undergoing painful tests, and, on one occasion, conducting a supposedly post-mortem dissection on a live monkey. On the job drunkenness, drug use, lateness, and other staff ills have been exposed as recently as December 2000."
Another posting advised that Warren Stephens, the chairman of the firm, was going on vacation and gave phone numbers of the golf club where he would be staying.
"Ask the people at the club how they feel about their position on animal cruelty," the posting advised. "How do they feel about the fact that they have a puppy killer as one of their members."
Burning, Beating to Stop Cruelty
But writing letters and making phone calls expressing disapproval and "liberating" lab animals are not the only ways the activists have of achieving their ends.
Monday night, the car of one of the directors of the New Jersey lab was overturned, as American activists picked up on the techniques long employed in Europe. Last year in England, nine people connected with Huntingdon — either workers or investors — had their cars burned. The violence has not been confined to machines, either.
On Feb. 22, three people wielding baseball bats attacked Brian Cass, the managing director of Huntingdon, outside his Cambridgeshire, England, home.
"I feel angry that there are people who pretend to be concerned about animals but then they go and attack someone in this sort of manner," he told the Press Association. "It is totally hypocritical and cowardly."
ALF and SHAC both denied involvement in the attack and issued statements saying they do not condone violence against humans any more than they do against animals.
But when demonstrations outside a London brokerage, Winterflood Securities, that dealt in the lab's shares failed to get the desired results, some activists turned to a campaign of domestic terror against the company's executives.
After the family members of many of the firm's officers received threatening phone calls, and one came home one Sunday to find a crowd of protesters "in balaclavas and death masks" waiting for him and his two young children, Winterflood capitulated and dropped the lab's stocks.
Resisting the ‘Bully Boys’
A similar campaign could soon be waged against the Bank of New York, which is the custodian for the lab's shareholders in the United States.
"The bank could now expect to find its corporate events crashed, protesters in its offices, and directors targeted," SHAC spokesman Greg Avery told the Daily Telegraph.
The Huntingdon spokesman said that the Bank of New York has been one of the lab's mainstays, and that generally U.S. firms have been more resistant to the pressures of the activists.
"The companies that have been most robust are in the U.S., and the one that has been most robust is the Bank of New York in saying we will not be pushed around by these bully boys," he said.
Roughly 100 demonstrators gathered outside the Huntingdon lab in New Jersey on Monday to protest the treatment of animals there. Police said the protest was generally peaceful, though three people were arrested and one had to receive treatment after officers used pepper spray to quell a few demonstrators who allegedly threw a barricade that had been set up to contain the marchers.
"We're just a group of passionate people who care about the plight of animals in HLS laboratories, and the police, it really goes to show that the police are the violent ones, and they are protecting the people that are murdering animals every year," said Lance Morosini, an animal rights activist.
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The agency has about 150 open cases of arson, bombings and other violent crimes associated with militant environmental and animal rights activists protesting the experimental use of animals in medical research, he said.
Lewis made the comments Monday in an address to some of the 18,000 biotechnology executives gathered here at the four-day Biotechnology Industry Organization's annual convention.
Security was high inside and outside the convention center. A helicopter hovered over the National Constitution Center on Sunday night while police on the ground formed a corridor through a small smattering of jeering demonstrators to ensure the conventioneers could arrive unmolested to a party inside.
Meanwhile, as the attacks nationwide increase along with hits to companies' bottom lines and worker morale, industry leaders and their crisis consultants are advocating a radical shift in strategy. They are beginning to fight back aggressively.
Chiron Corp. of Emeryville, Calif., which was bombed in 2003 and is still the subject of actions that include credit card fraud against some of its employees, won a restraining order in a California court against a group allegedly involved in much of the activity. The company also refused to renounce its ties to the protesters main target: Huntingdon Life Sciences, a Millstone, N.J. laboratory that does animal experiments for biotech and drug companies.
"We believe if we just kept our heads down, it would go away," said John Gallagher, director of Chiron's corporate communications. "That was unrealistic."
Gallagher said the attacks have cost Chiron at least $2.5 million, much of it associated with heightened security at public company events such as analyst meetings.
"That money would have been much better spent on drug development," Gallagher said.
The FBI is searching for the fugitive Daniel Andreas San Diego, who has been charged with the Chiron bombing and another at a Pleasanton, Calif. cosmetic maker. Neither bombing wrought serious damage or injuries.
San Diego has ties to several animal rights groups, including one called Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, which is better known as SHAC.
SHAC and its adherents have waged a decade-long campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences. Some of the tactics used against Huntingdon and the companies it contracts with include the vandalizing of executives' cars and houses, harassing employees and their families and the posting of personal information on public Web sites.
Six SHAC members face federal charges of conspiracy and interstate stalking that carry maximum penalties of between three and five years, plus fines up to $250,000. They are charged under the federal Animal Enterprise Protection Act, a 1992 law that was expanded in 2002 and equates their alleged activities with domestic terrorism.
A judge in Trenton, N.J., declared a mistrial in the case Monday after the lawyer for one of the defendants was too ill to continue with the trial. The case is not likely to come to trial before September, said Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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Following mad cow disease, now your chicken meat contains arsenic, too
newstarget.com
Posted Jan 19, 2004 PT by the Health Ranger (Mike Adams)
The news about the meat industry gets stranger at every turn. First there's mad cow disease and the revelations of the meat packing industry which engages is frightening aseembly line practices that allow spinal material to be sold as "beef." Now, in the story below, you'll read about the poultry industry and the rather bizarre fact that chicken ranchers feed arsenic to their chickens to help prevent intestinal parasites.
In my view, it isn't just the cows that have gone mad: it's the ranchers and meat packers who have lost their minds and, apparently, any sense of decency when it comes to producing a food product that doesn't harm consumers. Didn't it occur to these people that maybe arsenic shouldn't be fed to chickens that are going to be eaten by humans?
You know, the bottom line is that too many corporate meat ranchers, in both the chicken and cattle industries, will do practically anything to their "product" if it helps reduce costs and boost their financial return. The health of the consumer is apparently the very last thing on their minds. They'll add antibiotics, hormones, and poisons... they'll feed chicken litter to the cows, and dead cow parts back to the chickens. And they'll proudly label their product, "100% American beef!"
No thanks, I'll take some tofu instead, thank you. Or, perhaps, some organically produced meat grown by responsible ranchers and farmers who don't shoot up their cows and chickens with chemicals and drugs. Because if it's true that we are what we eat, then most Americans who are eating beef are, technically, walking chemical timebombs. Maybe this is part of the reason we're seeing such skyrocketing cancer rates, do ya think?
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Wilmington College is a Quaker School which has become
involved with the violent nonQuaker Heifer International,
an agribusiness dominated 'charity'
Posted by sb11 on 10-13-2005 08:44 PM:
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If you eat meat, you already have to worry about salmonella, E. coli, campylobacter, heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure, and cancer, as well as your weight. Now, add mad cow disease and its chicken, fish, pig, and turkey variants to the list! That’s right—any animal with a brain might get infected with the disease. We've already identified mad cow disease variants in humans, sheep, mink, cows, elk, deer, and cats.
Late in the day on December 23, the U.S. government announced that a dairy cow in Washington state was infected with mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Government officials announced that they have a plan, but it seems to be a public relations plan, not a plan to protect the public health. Newspapers report that meat from the cow, who was killed December 9, traveled through three processing plants before the problem was discovered 13 days later.
Think switching to chicken will keep your safe? Think again! Click here to learn why it’s mad to eat any meat.
What Is Mad Cow Disease?
Spongy brains, whether in humans, cows, or other animals, are caused by malformed proteins called prions. Researchers have traced recent outbreaks of the bovine version of the disease to farmers’ cost-cutting practice of mixing bits of dead sheep’s neural tissue into the feed of cows, who are naturally herbivorous.
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It's Mad to Eat Meat T-shirt
If cows eat the brains of other cows who already have BSE or of sheep suffering from a sheep disease called scrapie, the animals can develop mad cow disease. When people eat infected animals, thus far presumed to be cows, they could develop the human version of the disease, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD). Millions of cattle suspected of being infected with BSE in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Belgium, Italy, and other countries have been incinerated, and various safeguards (few of which have been adopted in the U.S.) have been instituted.
No matter what species it strikes, spongiform encephalopathy is always fatal. There is no treatment. The disease eats holes in the brain. In humans, it initially causes memory loss and erratic behavior, and over a period of months, its victims gradually lose all ability to care for themselves or communicate, and eventually, they die. So far, more than 120 people in Europe have died from nvCJD.
Doesn’t the government protect the meat supply?
Because the infected cow was raised for dairy production, she had lived long enough to show symptoms of the disease. Most cows are killed before they turn 2 years old, chickens at 6 to 7 weeks, and pigs and turkeys before they’re 6 months old, long before they could become symptomatic; no one would know whether they were infected with spongy brain disease, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is doing nothing at all to try to find out. In fact, the USDA admits that it only tested about 20,000 cows (and no other animals) for BSE last year—a statistically insignificant percentage of the approximately 40 million cows and 10 billion other animals slaughtered annually.
The dangerous practice of feeding sheep and even cows to other cows was not banned in the U.S. and Canada until 1997, and the U.S. government said that as recently as 2001, there was widespread violation of the feeding regulation. It is still legal to feed sheep and cows to pigs and chickens and to feed pigs and chickens to one another and to cows, even though these practices have been banned in Europe, and cows’ blood continues to be fed to chickens, turkeys, and other farmed animals. In fact, European countries have instituted an array of safety precautions that have not yet been adopted in the U.S. to try to protect their populations from spongy brain diseases. Although the issue of feeding cows to cows has been of particular concern, the problem is even more severe for chickens and pigs. In fact, of all the meat and bone meal that is processed into food for farmed animals, 43 percent is fed to birds, 13 percent is fed to pigs, and only 10 percent is fed to cows, so any ban on feeding animal carcasses to cows does not even begin to address the overall violation of WHO recommendations.
Other forms of spongy brain diseases have been found in North America. In May, an 8-year-old cow on a dairy farm in Alberta, Canada, was found to have BSE. Two years ago, 200 sheep raised for dairy on a Vermont farm were killed on suspicion that they were infected with their species’ equivalent of mad cow disease. Chronic wasting disease, a similar condition, is widespread in deer and elk in Western Canada and the U.S. and is suspected of infecting hunters who may have eaten meat from sick animals.
Since spongy brains have been found in cats, dogs, sheep, mink, deer, and elk, as well as in cows and people, you may not be protecting yourself by avoiding beef alone. When there are so many delicious vegetarian alternatives available at virtually every restaurant and grocery store, why gamble?
Can You Protect Yourself?
Yes! The best way to protect yourself and your family is to stop eating animal products and choose a healthy vegan diet. A vegan diet not only protects you from mad cow disease, but is the most effective way to prevent foodborne illness, heart disease, strokes, and many other ailments. Click here for a FREE vegetarian starter kit to help you get started.
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Labour morality guru compares fox-hunting to rape
Kamal Ahmed, political editor
Sunday June 1, 2003
The Observer
Hunting is morally equivalent to rape, child abuse and torture, according to one of Britain's leading Christian experts, who is closely connected to Labour's religious establishment.
The incendiary claim, which brought immediate condemnation from pro-hunting groups, has been made by Andrew Linzey, professor of theology at Oxford University and a recognised authority on morality and its effects on people's relations with animals.
In a report to be published by the Christian Socialist Movement (CSM) in the next fortnight, Linzey will argue that there is no moral defence for hunting as sport and that it should be completely banned. 'Causing suffering for sport is intrinsically evil,' he says. 'Hunting, therefore, belongs to that class of always morally impermissible acts along with rape, child abuse and torture.'
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The CSM is Britain's leading left-leaning religious organisation. Its members include the Prime Minister, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell and Ben Bradshaw, Deputy Leader of the House of Commons.
More significantly, Alun Michael, the Minister of State for Rural Affairs, who has been given responsibility by Tony Blair for putting together the Bill to ban hunting now being considered by Parliament, is also a patron.
Supporters of Linzey said he could not be dismissed as a crank. In 2001 he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree by the Archbishop of Canterbury in recognition of his 'unique and massive pioneering scholarly work in the area of the theology of creation, with particular reference to the rights and welfare of God's sentient creatures'.
The doctorate is the highest award the Archbishop can bestow on a theologian and it was the first time it has been awarded for work in animal welfare.
'All acts of cruelty to animals are of a kind,' Linzey said. 'They diminish our humanity and offend. Despite considerable media attention there has been little serious focus on the ethical aspect of hunting with dogs. The Government commissioned a report chaired by Lord Burns on the subject, but its terms of reference oddly excluded consideration of the ethical issues, and (to my knowledge) none of the Burns Committee has qualifications in moral philosophy or theology.
'This omission needs to be rectified. Specifically, church leaders and representatives who have a long history of engagement with moral issues need to consider the ethical dimension of the debate with a sense of urgency.'
Graham Dale, the head of the CSM, said Linzey was a highly-respected theologian who had become irritated that some bishops had not taken a stronger line on hunting. 'I think he wants to rectify that failing,' he said. 'These are powerful and tightly argued views.'
Pro-hunting organisations reacted with anger. 'If Andrew Linzey is coming up with this stuff and it is being used by the anti-hunting lobby, it is no wonder they are losing ground so rapidly,' said Jill Grieve, spokeswoman for the Countryside Alliance, which supports fox-hunting.
'If you ask a rape victim or a victim of torture who has suffered so much whether they think what they have gone through can be compared to hunting, I think you know the response you would get.
'Frankly, it's disgusting. We are talking about a legal pastime which is being likened to illegal acts of gross exploitation.'
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