I finally got around to reading this and while it sounds reasonable and might be valid, as a report, it is full of holes where he shoots down his own case.
For example, the person says, "BSE/CJD cannot be detected during incubation. BSE and CJD cause no antibody response. When infection enters an animal or human, the victim's immune system shows no sign of fighting the infection as it does with bacteria, germs, and viruses. This is because the immune system can neither detect nor fight it. Scientists cannot use the antibody-search method to see if someone is sick, as is done with AIDS.
No scientist can tell if a cow or human is in an incubating phase of BSE/CJD. The only exception is brain biopsies, and that is not done until after death occurs. There are no tests, no genetic markers. Prions are not reliably found in urine. Prions can be seen in brain tissue, but you cannot open the skull of a live mammal to scoop them out.
But then says, Prions infect every part of the body, not just the brain. Although BSE/CJD attacks brains, it is in every part of the victim. Therefore every part of the cow is affected. None of it should be eaten. This contamination cannot be removed by cooking.
Do not use blood meal in your garden. A British vegan woman caught CJD simply by dusting her roses with blood meal.
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BSE/CJD can be transmitted to one's children. Both cause a genetic mutation which is transmissible. Therefore, if you contract it, all your children will get it too. Sheep and cows pass it to offspring. Chickens can put it in their eggs. This is why the FDA has demanded that all donors to the blood supply answer the question, "Has anyone in your family died of Cruetzfeldt-Jakob?" The disease is l00% inherited and one drop of blood of a descendant of a CJD victim can infect all your descendants down through time.
Now if it causes genetic mutation and is passed on to offspring, is in all parts of the body and in blood eggs etc then it should be easily identifiable anywhere and not just post mortem via brain tissue samples.
Also, just the way it is written gives pause for taking at face value. Sounds like a vegetarian health food nut wrote it that wants to go hug a tree and get everyone to stop eating meat. What does the de-horning, teet cutting and de-calving have to do with BSE and mad cow disease? This read more like a animal rights doctrine than a unbiased report about mad cow disease.
As for no lab wanting to test for BSE. Give me a break! There are ample sanitary measures for dealing with nasty organisms. There are much worse critters out there than this that labs deal with every day. I think that the people were obvious weirdos that no lab wanted to waste their time dealing with BWDIK.
Still, there are a few interesting items in it that bear watching and even if it was all true, I wouldn't doubt for a second that our own and other governments would go out of their way to protect the meat industry. Let's just hope he is wrong and full of it. Imagine trying to get by day to day without eating meat, taking vitamins, undergoing dental work, surgery, licking an envelope or stamp etc etc etc.
Seems it is basically impossible to not to infect oneself no matter what you do so may as well enjoy life and then just die at the scheduled time.
EDIT - I might addf that when he said this..."Beware! BSE cow parts could be in more products than you thought possible. Gelatin caps, used to enclose vitamins and minerals, come from cows. Break them in your mouth and immediately spit out the gelatin." That is dangerous advise. Gel Caps are there to make sure that the contents is not digested too soon and are designed to disolve at a known rate so that the medicine/vitamins are delivered at teh correct time in the digestive system. Biting the caps and spitting them out could release the contents too soon and cause problems or at the least cause the contents not to be absorbed efficiently.
Good Luck,
Lee |
