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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (1366)	2/27/2001 1:25:04 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12411

NQ = ? [[Possibilities: Nitroguanidine (Explosive), Non Qualified, North Queensland, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (Including Caroline & Marshall Islands & Group) ]] Hi Michael, Funny you should mention the vegetarian diet. I'm in the process of heading that way, though concentrating more on lowering dietary fat intake to 10% of calories. I've lowered my blood cholesterol level by 25% and back into the "safe" range by controlling fat. For the Germans, the most obese people on the planet, the outbreak of BSE on the Continent is a blessing in disguise. We'll see a epidemiological study in 2 decades that will show a decline in CAD due to the contraint of the population in their sausage intake the next couple of years. One quote by a USDA scientist I think it was - something like this ' without the regime of antibiotics and other drugs we treat the cattle with, they would typically all die within weeks of disease ' - all due to the 'high output' style of farming. It is a crime what the factory farms are doing with their rampant abuse of antibiotics. Since it is a well known fact that bacteria are mutating at a rapid pace and are destroying the effectiveness of even our best antibiotics like vancomycin and augmentin, it is truly outrageous that the corporate agricultural interests can use their lobbying power to negate common sense regarding epidemiology. Yet it is these interests that have the ear of the current administration. Rather than do the right thing and consider public health wholistically, the regime in place will allow some ecological catastrophe and then send in the medical cavalry as it were. BWDIK? Ray BTW: I recently read Laurie Garrett's "Betrayal of Trust". If you want to understand an instance where the free market is a failure, this book makes it perfectly clear that market theories and public health simply do not mix/meld in any useful way at all.