- Note - As I and Dr. Patricia Doyle, PhD have been
warning for 10 years, BSE Mad Cow disease is reasonably common in US beef
and dairy cattle. It is in our food and it is most certainly our
pet foods. This FDA ruling simply confirms what we have been saying.
Until a couple of years ago, the USDA was checking about 23,000 cattle
for mad cow out of 32 MILLION slaughtered and eaten each year in the US.
That figure of 23,000 has been dropped by the USDA to only 2,300
per year out of 32 million. In other words: don't look...don't find.
A number of years back, many veterinarians in the US began to notice
that dogs...and to a lesser degree cats...were dying too soon. Many
of these animals were tagged with the mystery diagnosis of 'CCD'...for
Canine Cognitive Disorder. Ergo, the feeding of BSE cattle brains,
spinal columns and beef in general in pet foods was showing up as full-blown
mad cow disease in pets. The problem has gotten to be so bad now
that the FDA has finally been forced to act. Little consolation for
the countless pet owners who have had to watch their pets die tragically.
- Jeff Rense
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- (NaturalNews) -- Effective April 23, 2009, the FDA has
banned a series of cattle products from all animal feed and pet food in
attempt to prevent the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE),
also known as mad cow disease.
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- BSE is a fatal, degenerative disease of the brain cause
by defective proteins known as prions. These prions can be acquired by
consuming the flesh of infected animals and lead to a similarly fatal human
version of the disease, known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
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- Federal regulations already prohibit using ruminant protein
as part of the feed given to other ruminants. These measures were instituted
in the United States and Canada in 1997, after a mad cow outbreak in the
United Kingdom.
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- Ruminants are animals that chew their cud, such as cows,
sheep and goats.
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- Other U.S. protections against mad cow disease include
a partial ban on slaughtering cattle that cannot stand, which are more
likely to be infected with BSE, and a requirement that meatpackers remove
the spine and brain from all slaughtered animals. (Ridiculously ineffective
- JR) These are the body parts most likely to carry mad-cow-causing
prions. (BS...it has been found is all parts of the infected cows.
- JR)
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- The new regulations expand these rules in an attempt
to keep BSE prions out of any animal feed, out of awareness that ruminant
and non-ruminant feed might contaminate each other during the manufacturing
or transport processes, or that ruminants might accidentally be given the
wrong kind of feed.
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- Any animal feed will now be prohibited from containing
any materials from a BSE-infected animal; the brain or spinal cord of any
cattle aged 30 months or older; materials from any cattle that are aged
30 months or older, have not had their spinal cords removed and have not
been inspected and approved for human consumption; tallow containing more
than 0.15 percent insoluble purities, or that has been derived from any
other prohibited materials; and mechanically separated beef derived from
any other prohibited materials. (More absurd 'regulations'. There
are so many BSE downer cows killed and processed in the US each year, it's
a joke. And the joke's on us, as always. - JR)
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
- Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
- Univ of West Indies
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- http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php
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- http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/
- Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
- Go with God and in Good Health
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