AP should follow your lead and liberally sprinkle with exclamation points, bolding, and all-caps from now on.

go veggie.

If a cow is too fucked up to manage to stand on its own at the rendering plant, maybe that's a clue that you shouldn't render it.

3, tell that to the cow-pitalists who run the country's slaughterhouses.

Face it folks, BSE is in the US meat supply. If you eat unlabelled restaurant/fast food/grocery store beef you are at risk.

You've got more of a chance of being mowed down by a madman with a gun in public place in America than getting BSE from the food chain.

Forks Over Knives.

5, You have no control over the actions of madmen; you do have control over what you put in your mouth.

Also: Drive defensively!

Wait, wait, wait! "Chicken droppings ... are rendered back into cattle feed" !?! Fucking serious? We feed chicken shit to cows? That counts as food!? What in the WHAT!?

Read these:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/canni…

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/were-…

Love, Christine (who still reads this rag now and then)

Just don't forget that 'random testing' includes 0.00% (exactly 0) of food cows.

It is illegal to test food cows for BSE in the United States.

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and sporadic Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (sCJD)
are sister prion diseases (like mad cow and
Chronic Wasting Disease), transmissible by aerosols, tainted meat, infectious by medical (scopes, etc.) dental and eye equipment, blood, urine, feces, saliva, mucous. AD epidemic = 6 million US victims, new case every 68 seconds.
Recently, scientists including Nobel Laureate Stanley Prusiner (for his prion research) identified other diseases including Parkinson's (3 million US victims), Huntington's and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis as being caused by misfolding infectious prions/proteins
http://www.alzheimers-prions.com/pdf/JUN…
ALZHEIMERSISAPRIONDISEASE.pdf

"The prion-like behavior implicated in Alzheimer's disease also suggests that it may be transmissible like mad cow disease."

"Our findings open the possibility that some of the sporadic Alzheimer's cases may arise from an infectious process," senior author Claudio Soto said in a statement in October. "

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/336322/2…

The pathway of human risk for being infected with a prion disease is ingesting prion infected food/meat.

In 1985, Dr,. Richard Marsh proved that feeding downer cattle to farmed mink in Wisconsin caused TME = Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy. Mad cow disease has been circulating and amplifying in the US herd since then. After the third US mad cow was found in 2006, the USDA cut testing from 300,000 animals to only 40,000 a year. (out of 37 million slaughtered) And only 5000 downer cows are tested out of the 1 million downer cows rendered into animal feed each year. Rendered animal feed is most likely to be the source of mad cow in the US herd - 1 million downer cows - the ones most likely to be infected with mad cow disease (from total of 2 million downers) are rendered into potentially prion infected feeds which are fed to chickens, sheep, pigs, fish, family pets, etc. Then the cows are fed chicken litter containing the feces and potentially prion infected chicken feed from the rendering plant.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-gr…

The human pathway of risk is hamburger made from aging asymptomatic dairy cows infected with Bovine Amyloidoic Spongiform Encephalopathy (BASE) mad cow [Three out of four US mad cows were infected with the "atypical" BASE strain of mad cow.] Old dairy cows are ending up UNTESTED in huge industrial mixing vats of hamburger, each containing meat from 50 to 100 animals from multiple states and two to four countries. http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/b…

Two researchers were prescient in the mid 2000s, when they predicted the mad cow/Alzheimer epidemic:

http://www.healthydepartment.com/alzheim…
VIDEO Interview – Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer’s Disease
Interview with Colm Kelleher author of “Brain Trust: "The Hidden Connection Between Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer’s Disease” recorded November 16, 2004.

Dr. Murray Waldman, a coroner of the City of Toronto and co-author with Marjorie Lamb of the McClelland and Stewart book, "Dying for a Hamburger: modern meat processing and the epidemic of Alzheimer's disease", charges hamburger is the main source of prions, which trigger Alzheimer's.

Helane Shields, Alton, NH hshields@tds.net (www.alzheimers-prions.com/)

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and sporadic Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (sCJD)
are sister prion diseases (like mad cow), transmissible by aerosols, tainted meat, infectious by medical (scopes, etc.) dental and eye equipment, blood, urine, feces,
saliva, mucous. AD epidemic = 6 million US victims, new case every 69 seconds.
Recently, scientists including Nobel Laureate Stanley Prusiner (for his prion research) identified other diseases including Parkinson's (3 million US victims), Huntington's and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis as being caused by misfolding infectious prions/proteins
http://www.alzheimers-prions.com/pdf/JUN…
ALZHEIMERSISAPRIONDISEASE.pdf

"The prion-like behavior implicated in Alzheimer's disease also suggests that it may be transmissible like mad cow disease."

""Our findings open the possibility that some of the sporadic Alzheimer's cases may arise from an infectious process," senior author Claudio Soto said in a statement in October. "

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/336322/2…

The pathway of human risk for being infected with a prion disease is ingesting prion infected food/meat.

In 1985, Dr,. Richard Marsh proved that feeding downer cattle to farmed mink in Wisconsin caused TME = Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy. Mad cow disease has been circulating and amplifying in the US herd since then. After the third US mad cow was found in 2006, the USDA cut testing from 300,000 animals to only 40,000 a year. (out of 37 million slaughtered) And only 5000 downer cows are tested out of the 1 million downer cows rendered into animal feed each year. Rendered animal feed is most likely to be the source of mad cow in the US herd - 1 million downer cows - the ones most likely to be infected with mad cow disease (from total of 2 million downers) are rendered into potentially prion infected feeds which are fed to chickens, sheep, pigs, fish, family pets, etc. Then the cows are fed chicken litter containing the feces and potentially prion infected chicken feed from the rendering plant.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-gr…

The human pathway of risk is hamburger made from aging asymptomatic dairy cows infected with Bovine Amyloidoic Spongiform Encephalopathy (BASE) mad cow [Three out of four US mad cows were infected with the "atypical" BASE strain of mad cow.] Old dairy cows are ending up UNTESTED in huge industrial mixing vats of hamburger, each containing meat from 50 to 100 animals from multiple states and two to four countries. http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/b…

Two researchers were prescient in the mid 2000s, when they predicted the mad cow/Alzheimer epidemic:

http://www.healthydepartment.com/alzheim…
VIDEO Interview – Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer’s Disease
Interview with Colm Kelleher author of “Brain Trust: "The Hidden Connection Between Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer’s Disease” recorded November 16, 2004.

Dr. Murray Waldman, a coroner of the City of Toronto and co-author with Marjorie Lamb of the McClelland and Stewart book, "Dying for a Hamburger: modern meat processing and the epidemic of Alzheimer's disease", charges hamburger is the main source of prions, which trigger Alzheimer's.

Helane Shields, Alton, NH hshields@tds.net (www.alzheimers-prions.com/)