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To: coug who wrote (33628)	12/25/2003 4:58:54 PM
From: Mannie	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 89467

Coug... It was an amazing culinary experience to travel through the Vietnamese countryside, and up the coast. The food is just unbelievable, all fresh, local, free range.....what a treat. Tremendous seafood. And so cheap it made us feel guilty. It really hit home and made us realize just how tasteless our food has become. Merry Christmas to you and the lioness.. scott

To: coug who wrote (33628)	12/26/2003 2:53:00 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

From a 1996 article re: Mad Cow disease in England and the US - 10 to 15 percent of all Alzheimer's is actually a form of Mad Cow disease. HOW NOW MAD COW? "Never before have diseased ruminants been fed to other ruminants. We are in a mass experiment which is killing us," said Tim Laing, Professor of Food Policy at Thames Valley University. Britain has exported BSE throughout the world, following the discovery of thousands of forged export certificates passing Mad Cows as safe. Already Europe and USA have experienced outbreaks. People with CJD (human form of BSE) - according to Prof. Richard Lacey, may be as many as half the entire population - will not be treated on the NHS due to ‘lack of facilities for young people with dementia’! For people paying attention, ‘mad cow disease’ should come as no surprise. The way food is produced is a sympton of our societies ills - huge fields are devoted to one crop and sprayed with poisonous chemicals and pesticides; animals are locked in factory farms never to see the light of day; soil erosion (44% of all arable soil is at risk particularly from water erosion - and the South Downs could be barren within 20 years!); water pollution; lorries laden with bananas and Kit-Kats clog up our roads; food is flown in from countries around the world to supermarkets you have to drive to full of fancy packaging and junk food; vegetarian cows being fed their mates - BSE is another disaster on a long-list of disasters just waiting to happen. Farming has become a war with nature - but it need not be like this. Maddy Harland in the latest Permaculture magazine says, "As a nation and European community, we expect to buy cheap food, often dressed up in packaging, that does not take into account the health and environmental costs of the product of the well-being of the animal. Food miles, agrochemical pollution, factory farming even ‘factory’shopping (eg supermarkets) are the norm. Food is no longer a gift of Nature, it’s a product we acquire and usually the quicker the better?’ At the supermarkets veggie burgers are doing a roaring trade, as people convert from beef burgers to TVP. But is this a solution? Is highly packaged, marketed food made with cash crops grown in debt-ridden third world countries the way forward?" Dr. Annie Maddocks of the BSE Research Committee dismissed demands for more laboratory research. ‘There’s no point now. We are the experiment." "God help all of you?’ Beryl Rimmer, mother of CJD victim Maybe yer vegan mates aren’t as mad as you! For more info on meat and disaster, contact: The Natural Trust, 6 Tilbury Place, Brighton, Sussex, BN2 2GY. MOO! excerpted - schnews.org.uk