- The front page of my Sunday newspaper travel section
(The North Jersey Record, December 7, 2003) includes a feature story on
winter vacations in Montana and Wyoming. The headline:
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- "Yellowstone Presents an Ultimate Survival Test"
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- Indeed.
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- Headline writers often stretch truth. In this case, the
headline contains a Stephen King-like omen.
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- A horrible disease has come to Montana, and the dairy
and cattle industry is now under quarantine. You have not heard this one
yet, have you? The media powers to be don't want you to learn of the following
story. It might hurt those who advertise so that you might drink body fluids
from diseased animals.
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- A herd of Montana cattle is infected with brucellosis.
Four hundred cows are expected to be slaughtered this week.
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- Incredibly, nearly $4 billion in federal subsidies have
been "invested" in efforts to eradicate brucellosis since the
1930s. Clearly, this effort has been unsuccessful.
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- Brucellosis in cattle can be passed on to man in the
form of Mediterranean Disease or Undulant fever. Brucellis infections are
difficult to detect, and easily misdiagnosed. Symptoms include chronic
fatigue (syndrome), headaches, and arthritic pain. Once infected with Brucellosis
from cows, the disease can hide in the human body, emerging many years
after the initial bacterial infection.
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- Before taking your next bite of cheese, carefully read
this information from page 222 of Mad Cows and Milk Gate by Virgil Hulse,
M.D.:
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- "The following groups of pathogens can be involved
in manufacturing cheese made from raw milk: TB (mycobacterium paratuber-
culosis, Undulant fever (Brucella species), Disease producing Strep (Pathogenic
streptococci), staph food poisoning (Coagulase positive sttaphylocci),
staph arrhea that may lead to death (Entero-pathogenic Eschererichia coli),
Salmonella, Rickettsia, Virus species, Bacillus cereus, Clostridium perfringens
and Clostridium botulinum (can be fatal and cause death)."
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- Robert Cohen > http://www.notmilk.com > >
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