from Ahimsa Netwrk
Today CNN and the Houston Chronicle reported 39 cases of
meningitis in Houston. France and Italy have shut down slaughterhouses
to investigate Mad Cows' Disease. McDonald's Italia's 300 outlets are
supplied by one of these.
In the US, because of the power of the meat industry to
influence politics, the Centers For Disease Control, NIH, the FDA, the
USDA, and the GOP, Mad Cows' Disease deaths have been labeled meningitis
or leukemia, cancer or Jakob Cruetzfeld Disease. Autopsies should be
done on the brains of all dying of meningitis, since the brain tissue of
MCD victims will be spongy (bovine spongiform encephalopathy). The
source of MCD has been the meat industry's turning animals into
unwitting cannibals, as sheeps' brains were fed to cows in the UK.
In the US, dogs from animal shelters are sent to
'rendering' plants and sometimes put into cow, pig, sheep and chicken
food. (Feed is a chauvinist term.) While dogs are fed to cows, cows also
are put in pet food. Gelatin (Jell-O) like all animal products should be
avoided for protection.
Howard Lyman's attempt to publicize this danger resulted
in Amarillo cattlemen suing him and Oprah Winfrey. These cattlemen
received the support of George Bush and the GOP. The undersigned want
the truth told about Mad Cows' Disease in the US, as well as an end to
subsidies for the meat industry, an end to grazing on federal lands, an
end to animal product promotions in the schools through the WIC and
other programs.
PLEASE, SIGN THE PETITION :
http://www.ethepeople.com
( Please see the right side " most recent petitions section "
then click "Texas Links to Mad Cow Disease." )
References :
http://www.madcowboy.com
http://www.pcrm.org
http://www.chron.com (charges for
archive search)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/01/22/menigitis.02/index.html
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