Morir de SIDA no es nada comparado con morir del mal Creutzfeldt-Jakob o de
las vacas locas...Por lo menos quien muere de Sí-Da permanece dispuesto como
ser ante su muerte, mientras que con esta atroz enfermedad, nuestra
identidad personal queda aniquilada mientras seguimos de alguna forma vivos
en estado alucinatorio y de total descontrol físico y mental: con el cerebro
lleno de huecos, literalmente... Esta enfermedad es el tipo de cosa que por
momentos me convierte en atea. Si lo que se están robando en la industria de
los armamentos lo dedicaran a realmente velar por nuestra salud, una pequeña
parte del presupuesto rescatado de un estado de guerra que tiene que
finiquitarse cuánto antes, podría ayudar a transformar la industria
alimentaria de forma tal que lo que comemos sea sano y bueno para todos. La
producción de carne tiene por fuerzas que regresar a los buenos métodos de
la agricultura sustentable y las prácticas de producción de proteína animal
vueltas a lo que Dios y natura ordenan. Bien dijo Roger Bacon, s XIII,
citado por Simone Weil para quien semejante frase constituía de por sí la
única y suficiente Biblia a seguir:
´´El hombre ordena a la naturaleza obedeciéndola´´. Intervenir en la cadena
alimentaria de la forma en que lo hace la industria agropecuaria,
desviándola de su natural curso, es jugar con el destino humano, jugar el
papel de Pandora, dejando salir de su caja los mil monstruos que ahora nos
acosan. Urge que la ciudadanía en cada localidad, en cada ayuntamiento
donde se producen reces, carneros, cerdos y pollos se organice para velar
porque no seamos infectados con esta espantosa forma demencia. Cualquiera de
nosotros ya podría estar contaminado pues se lleva años en detectar, pero
esto no quita que no se apliquen precauciones. El caso es que la cadena
alimenticia está tan interconectada que resulta muy difícil detener la
contaminación entre las especies. Se considera que el canibalismo forzado
resultante de la producción de alimentos abaratados por medio del
reprocesamiento de partes desechadas de otros animales viene siendo lo que
genera la contaminación de un tipo de proteína asesina que suena como el
agente maligno de la ciencia ficción más espeluznante. También hay quien
avanza la idea de que el problema se inserta por medio de fertilizantes que
incrementan el manganeso en la alimentación de las reces y demás animales
expuestos a ellos.

El caso es que la vigilancia está a la orden del día...y que la ciudadanía
deberá actuar para controlar el flujo de la contaminación en marcha y
asegurar que la producción agropecuaria se desvíe de los métodos perniciosos
de la agricultura industrial. Esto incluye descartar totalmente el uso de
fertilizantes que ponen en riesgo nuestra salud.

El artículo que sigue en inglés da detalles escalofriantes y muchos sitios a
los que acudir para hacerse una idea del asunto. A Oprah Winfrey la
trataron de fregar por meterse a decir lo que sabía, poniendo en riesgo las
ganancias de la industria de la carne. Pero lo peor de todo es que no
estamos sólo ante el problema de no poder comer carne de res sino de todo
tipo...¡qué hueva! Así que este asunto está en el caldero y hay que ver
cómo ayudamos a disminuir las probabilidades de tener que morir una muerte
tan poco enaltecedora.

¡QUÉ NOS LIBREMOS DE MORIR LA MUERTE DE LAS VACAS LOCAS! Por una muerte
digna y una alimentación sin riesgos. Habría que tratar de que los fondos
tan desastrosamente invertidos en cosas tan absurdas como la guerra contra
´´las drogas´´ y en contra del ´´terrorismo´´ fueran a trabajar a favor de
una alimentación que nos permita vivir y morir con lucidez: como personas y
no como bestias demenciales...

En nombre del Padre, y del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo: ¡AMEN!


----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Daniel Ravitz <evan@...>
To: <People@...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:47 PM
Subject: MD: Mad Cow more prevalent than supposed?


>
> Consider how comoditizing protein may be spreading disease globally...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 13:45:04 -0800
> From: "Michael Greger, M.D." <mhg1@...>
> To: michaelgregermd@...
> Subject: Could Mad Cow Disease Already be Killing Thousands of Americans
> Every Year?
>
>
> Please feel free to forward or reprint any part of my new report
>
> Could Mad Cow Disease Already be Killing Thousands of Americans Every
Year?
> by Michael Greger, M.D.
> January 7, 2004
>
> October 2001, 34-year-old Washington State native Peter Putnam
> started losing his mind. One month he was delivering a keynote
> business address, the next he couldn't form a complete sentence. Once
> athletic, soon he couldn't walk. Then he couldn't eat. After a brain
> biopsy showed it was Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, his doctor could no
> longer offer any hope. "Just take him home and love him," the doctor
> counseled his family.[1,2,3] Peter's tragic death, October 2002, may
> have been caused by Mad Cow disease.
>
> Seven years earlier and 5000 miles away, Stephen Churchill was the
> first in England to die. His first symptoms of depression and
> dizziness gave way to a living nightmare of terrifying
> hallucinations; he was dead in 12 months at age 19.[4] Next was Peter
> Hall, 20, who showed the first signs of depression around Christmas,
> 1994. By the next Christmas, he couldn't walk, talk, or do anything
> for himself.[5] Then it was Anna's turn, then Michelle's. Michelle
> Bowen, age 29, died in a coma three weeks after giving birth to her
> son via emergency cesarean section. Then it was Alison's turn. These
> were the first five named victims of Britain's Mad Cow epidemic. They
> died from what the British Secretary of Health called the worst form
> of death imaginable, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a relentlessly
> progressive and invariably fatal human dementia.[6] The announcement
> of their deaths, released on March 20, 1996 (ironically, Meatout
> Day[7]), reversed the British government's decade-old stance that
> British beef was safe to eat.[8]
>
> It is now considered an "incontestable fact" that these human deaths
> in Britain were caused by Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), or
> Mad Cow disease.[9] Bovine means "cow or cattle," spongiform means
> "sponge-like," and encephalopathy means "brain disease." Mad Cow
> disease is caused by unconventional pathogens called
> prions--literally infectious proteins--which, because of their unique
> structure, are practically invulnerable, surviving even
> incineration[10] at temperatures hot enough to melt lead.[11] The
> leading theory as to how cows got Mad Cow disease in the first place
> is by eating diseased sheep infected with a sheep spongiform
> encephalopathy called scrapie.[12]
>
> In humans, prions can cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a human
> spongiform encephalopathy whose clinical picture can involve weekly
> deterioration into blindness and epilepsy as one's brain becomes
> riddled with tiny holes.
>
> We've known about Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease for decades, since well
> before the first mad cow was discovered in 1985. Some cases of CJD
> seemed to run in families; other cases seemed to just arise
> spontaneously in about one in a million people every year, and were
> hence dubbed "sporadic." The new form of CJD caused by eating beef
> from cows infected with Mad Cow disease, though, seemed to differ
> from the classic sporadic CJD.
>
> The CJD caused by infected meat has tended to strike younger people,
> has produced more psychotic symptoms, and has often dragged on for a
> year or more. The most defining characteristic, though, was found
> when their brains were sampled. The brain pathology was vividly
> reminiscent of Kuru, a disease once found in a New Guinea tribe of
> cannibals who ate the brains of their dead.[13] Scientists called
> this new form of the disease "variant" CJD.
>
> Other than Charlene, a 24 year old woman now so tragically dying in
> Florida, who was probably infected in Britain, there have been no
> reported cases of variant CJD in the U.S.[14] Hundreds of confirmed
> cases of the sporadic form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, however,
> arise in the United States every year,[15] but the beef industry is
> quick to point out these are cases of sporadic CJD, not the new
> variant known to be caused by Mad Cow disease.[16] Of course, no one
> knows what causes sporadic CJD. New research, discussed below,
> suggests that not hundreds but thousands of Americans die of sporadic
> CJD every year, and that some of these CJD deaths may be caused by
> eating infected meat after all.
>
> Although the fact that Mad Cow disease causes variant CJD had already
> been strongly established, researchers at the University College of
> London nevertheless created transgenic mice complete with "humanized"
> brains genetically engineered with human genes to try to prove the
> link once and for all. When the researchers injected one strain of
> the "humanized" mice with infected cow brains, they came down with
> the same brain damage seen in human variant CJD, as expected. But
> when they tried this in a different strain of transgenic "humanized"
> mice, those mice got sick too, but most got sick from what looked
> exactly like sporadic CJD! The Mad Cow prions caused a disease that
> had a molecular signature indistinguishable from sporadic CJD. To the
> extent that animal experiments can simulate human results, their
> shocking conclusion was that eating infected meat might be
> responsible for some cases of sporadic CJD in addition to the
> expected variant CJD. The researchers concluded that "it is therefore
> possible that some patients with [what looks like]... sporadic CJD
> may have a disease arising from BSE exposure."[17] Laura Manuelidis,
> section chief of surgery in the neuropathology department at Yale
> University comments, "Now people are beginning to realize that
> because something looks like sporadic CJD they can't necessarily
> conclude that it's not linked to [Mad Cow disease]..."[18]
>
> This is not the first time meat was linked to sporadic CJD. In 2001,
> a team of French researchers found, to their complete surprise, a
> strain of scrapie--"mad sheep" disease--that caused the same brain
> damage in mice as sporadic CJD.[19] "This means we cannot rule out
> that at least some sporadic CJD may be caused by some strains of
> scrapie," says team member Jean-Philippe Deslys of the French Atomic
> Energy Commission's medical research laboratory.[20]
>
> Population studies had failed to show a link between CJD and lamb
> chops, but this French research provided an explanation why. There
> seem to be six types of sporadic CJD and there are more than 20
> strains of scrapie. If only some sheep strains affect only some
> people, studies of entire populations may not clearly show the
> relationship. Monkeys fed infected sheep brains certainly come down
> with the disease.[21] Hundreds of "mad sheep" were found in the U.S.
> in 2003.[22] Scrapie remains such a problem in the United States that
> the USDA has issued a scrapie "declaration of emergency."[23] Maybe
> some cases of sporadic CJD in the U.S. are caused by sheep meat as
> well.[24]
>
> Pork is also a potential source of infection. Cattle remains are
> still boiled down and legally fed to pigs (as well as chickens) in
> this country. The FDA allows this exemption because no "naturally
> occurring" porcine (pig) spongiform encephalopathy has ever been
> found. But American farmers typically kill pigs at just five months
> of age, long before the disease is expected to show symptoms. And,
> because pigs are packed so tightly together, it would be difficult to
> spot neurological conditions like spongiform encephalopathies, whose
> most obvious symptoms are movement and gait disturbances. We do know,
> however, that pigs are susceptible to the disease--laboratory
> experiments show that pigs can indeed be infected by Mad Cow
> brains[25]--and hundreds of thousands of downer pigs, too sick or
> crippled by injury to even walk, arrive at U.S. slaughterhouses every
> year.[26]
>
> A number of epidemiological studies have suggested a link between
> pork consumption and sporadic CJD. Analyzing peoples' diet histories,
> the development of CJD was associated with eating roast pork, ham,
> hot dogs, pork chops, smoked pork, and scrapple (a kind of pork
> pudding made from various hog carcass scraps). The researchers
> concluded, "The present study indicated that consumption of pork as
> well as its processed products (e.g., ham, scrapple) may be
> considered as risk factors in the development of Creutzfeldt-Jakob
> disease." Compared to people that didn't eat ham, for example, those
> who included ham in their diet seemed ten times more likely to
> develop CJD.[27] In fact, the USDA may have actually recorded an
> outbreak of "mad pig" disease in New York 25 years ago, but still
> refuses to reopen the investigation despite petitions from the
> Consumer's Union (the publishers of Consumer Reports magazine).[28]
>
> Sporadic CJD has also been associated with weekly beef
> consumption,[29] as well as the consumption of roast lamb,[30] veal,
> venison, brains in general,[31] and, in North America,
> seafood.[32,33] The development of CJD has also, surprisingly, been
> significantly linked to exposure to animal products in
> fertilizer,[34] sport fishing and deer hunting in the U.S.,[35] and
> frequent exposure to leather products.[36]
>
> We do not know at this time whether chicken meat poses a risk. There
> was a preliminary report of ostriches allegedly fed risky feed in
> German zoos who seemed to come down with a spongiform
> encephalopathy.[37] Even if chickens and turkeys themselves are not
> susceptible, though, they may become so-called "silent carriers" of
> Mad Cow prions and pass them on to human consumers.[38] Dateline NBC
> quoted D. Carleton Gajdusek, the first to be awarded a Nobel Prize in
> Medicine for his work on prion diseases,[39] as saying, "it's got to
> be in the pigs as well as the cattle. It's got to be passing through
> the chickens."[40] Dr. Paul Brown, medical director for the US Public
> Health Service, believes that pigs and poultry could indeed be
> harboring Mad Cow disease and passing it on to humans, adding that
> pigs are especially sensitive to the disease. "It's speculation," he
> says, "but I am perfectly serious."[41]
>
> The recent exclusion of most cow brains, eyes, spinal cords, and
> intestines from the human food supply may make beef safer, but where
> are those tissues going? These potentially infectious tissues
> continue to go into animal feed for chickens, other poultry, pigs,
> and pets (as well as being rendered into products like tallow for use
> in cosmetics, the safety of which is currently under review[42]).
> Until the federal government stops the feeding of slaughterhouse
> waste, manure, and blood to all farm animals, the safety of meat in
> America cannot be guaranteed.
>
> The hundreds of American families stricken by sporadic CJD every year
> have been told that it just occurs by random chance. Professor
> Collinge, the head of the University College of London lab, noted
> "When you counsel those who have the classical sporadic disease, you
> tell them that it arises spontaneously out of the blue. I guess we
> can no longer say that."
>
> "We are not saying that all or even most cases of sporadic CJD are as
> a result of BSE exposure," Professor Collinge continued, "but some
> more recent cases may be--the incidence of sporadic CJD has shown an
> upward trend in the UK over the last decade... serious consideration
> should be given to a proportion of this rise being BSE-related.
> Switzerland, which has had a substantial BSE epidemic, has noted a
> sharp recent increase in sporadic CJD."[43] In the Nineties,
> Switzerland had the highest rate of Mad Cow disease in continental
> Europe, and their rate of sporadic CJD doubled.[44]
>
> We don't know exactly what's happening to the rate of CJD in this
> country, in part because CJD is not an officially notifiable
> illness.[45] Currently only a few states have such a requirement.
> Because the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) does not actively
> monitor the disease on a national level,[46] a rise similar to the
> one in Europe could be missed.[47] In spite of this, a number of U.S.
> CJD clusters have already been found. In the largest known U.S.
> outbreak of sporadic cases to date,[48] five times the expected rate
> was found to be associated with cheese consumption in Pennsylvania's
> Lehigh Valley.[49] A striking increase in CJD over expected levels
> was also reported in Florida[50] and New York (Nassau County)[51]
> with anecdotal reports of clusters of deaths in Oregon[52] and New
> Jersey.[53]
>
> Perhaps particularly worrisome is the seeming increase in CJD deaths
> among young people in this country. In the 18 years between 1979 and
> 1996, only a single case of sporadic CJD was found in someone under
> 30. Whereas between 1997 and 2001, five people under 30 died of
> sporadic CJD. So five young Americans dying in five years, as opposed
> to one young case in the previous 18 years. The true prevalence of
> CJD among any age group in this country remains a mystery, though, in
> part because it is so commonly misdiagnosed.[54]
>
> The most frequent misdiagnosis of CJD among the elderly is
> Alzheimer's disease.[55] Neither CJD nor Alzheimer's can be
> conclusively diagnosed without a brain biopsy,[56] and the symptoms
> and pathology of both diseases overlap. There can be spongy changes
> in Alzheimer's, for example, and senile Alzheimer's plaques in
> CJD.[57] Stanley Prusiner, the scientist who won the Nobel Prize for
> his discovery of prions, speculates that Alzheimer's may even turn
> out to be a prion disease as well.[58] In younger victims, CJD is
> more often misdiagnosed as multiple sclerosis or as a severe viral
> infection.[59]
>
> Over the last 20 years the rates of Alzheimer's disease in the United
> States have skyrocketed.[60] According to the CDC, Alzheimer's
> Disease is now the eighth leading cause of death in the United
> States,[61] afflicting an estimated 4 million Americans.[62] Twenty
> percent or more of people clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer's
> disease, though, are found at autopsy not to have had Alzheimer's at
> all.[63] A number of autopsy studies have shown that a few percent of
> Alzheimer's deaths may in fact be CJD. Given the new research showing
> that infected beef may be responsible for some sporadic CJD,
> thousands of Americans may already be dying because of Mad Cow
> disease every year.[64]
>
> Nobel Laureate Gajdusek, for example, estimates that 1% of people
> showing up in Alzheimer clinics actually have CJD.[65] At Yale, out
> of a series of 46 patients clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer's, six
> were proven to have CJD at autopsy.[66] In another study of brain
> biopsies, out of a dozen patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's
> according to established criteria, three of them were actually dying
> from CJD.[67] An informal survey of neuropathologists registered a
> suspicion that CJD accounts for 2-12% of all dementias in
> general.[68] Two autopsy studies showed a CJD rate among dementia
> deaths of about 3%.[69,70] A third study, at the University of
> Pennsylvania, showed that 5% of patients diagnosed with dementia had
> CJD.[71] Although only a few hundred cases of sporadic CJD are
> officially reported in the U.S. annually,[72] hundreds of thousands
> of Americans die with dementia every year.[73] Thousands of these
> deaths may actually be from CJD caused by eating infected meat.
>
> The incubation period for human spongiform encephalopathies such as
> CJD can be decades.[74] This means it can be years between eating
> infected meat and getting diagnosed with the death sentence of CJD.
> Although only about 150 people have so far been diagnosed with
> variant CJD worldwide, it will be many years before the final death
> toll is known. In the United States, an unknown number of animals are
> infected with Mad Cow disease, causing an unknown number of human
> deaths from CJD. The U.S. should immediately begin testing all cows
> destined for human consumption, as is done in Japan, should stop
> feeding slaughterhouse waste to all farm animals (see
> http://organicconsumers.org/madcow/GregerBSE.cfm), and should
> immediately enact an active national surveillance program for CJD.[75]
>
> Five years ago this week, the Center for Food Safety, the Humane
> Farming Association, the Center for Media & Democracy, and ten
> families of CJD victims petitioned the FDA and the CDC to immediately
> enact a national CJD monitoring system, including the mandatory
> reporting of CJD in all 50 states.[76] The petition was denied.[77]
> The CDC argued that their passive surveillance system tracking death
> certificate diagnoses was adequate. Their analysis of death
> certificates in three states and two cities, for example, showed an
> overall stable and typical one in a million CJD incidence rate from
> 1979 to 1993.[78] But CJD is so often misdiagnosed, and autopsies are
> so infrequently done, that this system may not provide an accurate
> assessment.[79]
>
> In 1997, the CDC set up the National Prion Disease Pathology
> Surveillance Center at Case Western Reserve University to analyze
> brain tissue from CJD victims in the U.S. in hopes of tracking any
> new developments. In Europe, surveillance centers have been seeing
> most, if not all, cases of CJD. The U.S. center sees less than half.
> "I'm very unhappy with the numbers," laments Pierluigi Gambetti , the
> director of the Center. "The British and Germans politely smile when
> they see we examine 30% or 40% of the cases," he says. "They know
> unless you examine 80% or more, you are not in touch."[80] "The
> chance of losing an important case is high."[81]
>
> One problem is that many doctors don't even know the Center exists.
> And neither the CDC nor the Center are evidently authorized to reach
> out to them directly to bolster surveillance efforts, because it's
> currently up to each state individually to determine how--or even
> whether--they will track the disease. In Europe, in contrast, the
> national centers work directly with each affected family and their
> physicians.[82] In the U.S., most CJD cases--even the confirmed
> ones--seem to just fall through the cracks. In fact, based on the
> autopsy studies at Yale and elsewhere, it seems most CJD cases in the
> U.S. aren't even picked up in the first place.
>
> Autopsy rates have dropped in the U.S. from 50% in the Sixties to
> less than 10% at present.[83] Although one reason autopsies are
> rarely performed on atypical dementia cases is that medical
> professionals are afraid of catching the disease,[84] the primary
> reason for the decline in autopsy rates in general appears to be
> financial. There is currently no direct reimbursement to doctors or
> hospitals for doing autopsies, which often forces the family to
> absorb the cost of transporting the body to an autopsy center and
> having the brain samples taken, a tab that can run upwards of
> $1500.[85]
>
> Another problem is that the National Prion Disease Pathology
> Surveillance Center itself remains underfunded. Paul Brown, medical
> director for the National Institutes of Health, has described the
> Center's budget as "pitiful," complaining that "there isn't any
> budget for CJD surveillance."[86] To adequately survey America's 290
> million residents, "you need a lot of money." UK CJD expert Robert
> Will explains, "There was a CJD meeting of families in America in
> which... [the CDC] got attacked fairly vigorously because there
> wasn't proper surveillance. You could only do proper surveillance if
> you have adequate resources."[87] "I compare this to the early days
> of AIDS," says protein chemist Shu Chen, who directs the Center's
> lab, "when no one wanted to deal with the crisis."[88]
>
> Andrew Kimbrell, the director of the Center for Food Safety, a
> D.C.-based public interest group, writes, "Given what we know now, it
> is unconscionable that the CDC is not strictly monitoring these
> diseases."[89] Given the presence of Mad Cow disease in the U.S., we
> need to immediately enact uniform active CJD surveillance on a
> national level, provide adequate funding not only for autopsies but
> also for the shipment of bodies, and require mandatory reporting of
> the disease in all 50 states. In Britain, even feline spongiform
> encephalopathy, the cat version of Mad Cow disease, is an officially
> notifiable illness. "No one has looked for CJD systematically in the
> U.S.," notes NIH medical director Paul Brown. "Ever."[90]
>
> The animal agriculture industries continue to risk public safety, and
> the government seems to protect the industries' narrow business
> interests more than it protects its own citizens. Internal USDA
> documents retrieved through the Freedom of Information Act show that
> our government did indeed consider a number of precautionary measures
> as far back as 1991 to protect the American public from Mad Cow
> disease. According to one such document, however, the USDA explained
> that the "disadvantage" of these measures was that "the cost to the
> livestock and rendering industries would be substantial."[91]
>
> Plant sources of protein for farm animals can cost up to 30% more
> than cattle remains.[92] The Cattlemen's Association admitted a
> decade ago that animal agribusiness could indeed find economically
> feasible alternatives to feeding slaughterhouse waste to other
> animals, but that the they did not want to set a precedent of being
> ruled by "activists."[93]
>
> Is it a coincidence that USDA Secretary Veneman chose Dale Moore,
> former chief lobbyist for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association,
> as her chief of staff?[94] Or Alison Harrison, former director of
> public relations for the Cattlemen's Association, as her official
> spokeswoman?[95] Or that one of the new Mad Cow committee appointees
> is William Hueston, who was paid by the beef industry to testify
> against Oprah Winfrey in hopes of convicting her of beef
> "disparagement"?[96] After a similar conflict of interest unfolded in
> Britain, their entire Ministry of Agriculture was dissolved and an
> independent Food Safety Agency was created, whose sole responsibility
> is to protect the public's health. Until we learn from Britain's
> lesson, and until the USDA stops treating this as a PR problem to be
> managed instead of a serious global threat,[97] millions of Americans
> will remain at risk.
>
>
> PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FORWARD OR REPRINT ANY PART OF THIS REPORT.
>
> For updates on this evolving crisis, visit
> http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow.htm or send a blank email to
> mailto:DrGregerMadCowUpdates-subscribe@...
>
> For background on this important issue, read the excellent book Mad
> Cow U.S.A., the full text of which is available free online at
> http://www.prwatch.org, or my article "U.S. Violates WHO Guidelines
> for Mad Cow Disease" at
> http://organicconsumers.org/madcow/GregerBSE.cfm.
>
> Michael Greger, M.D., has been the Chief BSE Investigator for Farm
> Sanctuary since 1993 and the Mad Cow Coordinator for the Organic
> Consumers Association since 2001. Dr. Greger has debated the National
> Cattlemen's Beef Association before the FDA and was invited as an
> expert witness at the infamous Oprah Winfrey "meat defamation" trial.
> He has contributed to many books and articles on the subject,
> continues to lecture extensively, and currently runs the Mad Cow
> disease website http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow.htm. Dr.
> Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture
> and the Tufts University School of Medicine. He can be reached for
> media inquiries at (206) 312-8640 or mhg1@....
>
> REFERENCES:
> (Full text of specific articles available by emailing
> article-request@...)
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