Part 2

Dr. Richard Deandrea, a L.A. physician who has studied CJD and BSE
extensively, tells of his first CJD patient. After her death, which
featured frills atypical of Alzheimer's (fingers numb, blindness,
slurred speech, weak knees,) Deandrea dogged the Center for Disease
Control for a pathologist who'd give him an autopsy to see if it might
be CJD. CDC evaded 3 weeks of his calls. Finally,a female CDC staffer
told him that off the record---she'd deny it later--"CJD is an issue no
pathologist will deal with, a virtual death sentence to a lab. A well
trained pathologist knows the quarantine would never be lifted. You

couldn't sterilize the lab to OSHA protocols. It would have to be
gutted, incinerated. Forget it. Your patient died of Alzheimer's." So,
there may be CJD deaths but there sure aren't going to be CJD death
certificates. All the same, the beat goes on. On March 20th, 1996, the
very day that Minister Dorrell lit the fuse on the Mad-Cow bomb in
London, a Florida man died of CJD. His wife gave a TV interview
describing his shaking knees, his lack of co-ordination, then quick
parabola into a vegetative state, followed by death and said that her
husband had never travelled abroad in his life. Why would he have to?
Prions enjoy the American climate. They mutate into Natural Born killers
of the speediest kind here although American reporters seem the first to
manifest the dementia. 1,490 dailies in the USA, 11 big TV networks and
only CNN carried the story of the man's death airing it March 28th.
(Jane Fonda must be feeding Ted his tofu.) True, the Oprah Show had an
ex beef rancher on, who had seen U.S. sheep and cows dying of Mad-Cow
but that won't happen twice. Beef dropped 150 points on the stock market
while the show was on the air and the beef industry is suing Oprah for it.

Small stations are more likely to reveal death toll statistics. In
California, KCAL-TV News reported two recent CJD deaths, one in Stockton
the other San Francisco. Dr. Deandrea knew of a death in Lancaster CA
and another in Minnesota, all in the last few weeks yet the NIH claims
it knows of only 11 CJD deaths since '94, ---no surprise if there isn't
a lab on the country that will allow a suspected CJD death case in the
door for an autopsy! But the double whammy for the slowest of slow of
this torpid group of officials goes to the US Department of Agriculture,
who responded to the whole Mad-Cow issue by saying that it was going to
"consider the banning of the use of sheep tissue in cattle feed." Is
such a lackadaisical failure to grapple with the problem bureaucratic
caution, a deliberate ruse to avoid creating panic, denial born of fear
or genuine ignorance? Check all four boxes but there could be a vested
'short stroke' interest in keeping the steaming hot meat issue under a
lid for a while. If meat is history and grain no longer required as
feed, Cargill, Conagra and IBP will go broke along with the 50 billion
dollar a year U.S. meat industry. On the other hand, if D-day can be
staved off for just a while, a few knowledgeable insiders could profit
bigtime---trashing their own corporations but making it back betting the
downside on beef, the upside on pigs on the stock market. Then, when
people start to die of CJD, the profiteers will switch --betting the
upside on soy for humans and the downside on all other livestock and
feedgrains. Fortunes will be made. If stocks are your hobby, bet against
livestock futures for there is 'scrapie' in every state of the union
and, as dead sheep are still being fed to every single American cow,
meat is lethal whether it's in a can of Whiskers (80 Brit cats have died
of Mad-Cow) or walking around mooing or under cellophane. The only safe
beef is the one WE have with the USDA. Scientists who invented the
"bypass protein" method of feeding livestock, (taking the rendered
corpse of dead animals, grinding it into meat meal, mixing it in with
grains,) have turned an attractive planet into a potential graveyard.
***Scientists who turned healthy herbivores into cannibals for the first
time in their billion year history may have shot themselves and humanity
in the collective hoof. ***Of course, there are other animal husbandry
practices which have made cows vulnerable to pathogens, which have given
Mad-Cow a running start. Even if there were no prions lurking, when you
feed an herbivore protein, its body produces ptomaines, which causes
lesions or tubercles in its body. That means tuberculosis. In 1989 the
National Association of Federal Veterinarians decided to create a
'test-balloon' state. They allowed California to sellmeat infected with
tuberculosis, a practice illegal since 1906. TB immediately went up 36%
in the sunshine state. HOW NOW MAD COW? Bovine immune systems have been
destroyed by still other, common practices massive daily injections of
synthetic growth/lactation hormones which exhaust the cow who is
chemically stimulated to give 40% more milk. Then, there are the
anti-biotics necessary as such a regimen paves the way for multiple
infections. ***Then---the horrific, painful mutilation of cows with more
than 4 teats. (Many have 8 teats; extras are amputated without
anesthetics.) Then there's de-horning, also done without anesthetics.
Worst, imagine the hormones of grief created in Bessie when baby veal is
calf-napped on its second day of life. Then 305 days of the farmer
stealing the milk her child was supposed to get. Then a 2-day starvation
period (no food or water) to dry up her milk to get her ready to 'calve'
again. And the killer cycle starts all over again driving the poor cow
literally mad.*** (At last someone uses the right word for a disease!) A
happy cow would live 25 years on a happy farm. A dairy cow is exhausted
at 3 to 5 years of age. Her reward she is slaughtered and her poor,
suffering corpse eaten by humans as burger. In its greedy striving for
more bigger and longer for less cost, science has contributed to cows
having the last laugh in this A-Cow-Palypse Now. So these are the facts.
Prions are here to stay and if this disease has worked its way up to the
top of the Food Chain and the fact is known by American researchers, why
do these educated men remain silent? The Pittsburgh Veterans Hospital
sampling never hit the newspapers. The definitive paper on Mad-Cow,
written by the foremost U.S. prion researcher, professor of neurology
and biochemistry, Dr. Stanley Prusiner of the University of California
School of Medicine, San Francisco, is curiously without mention of the
danger of eating meat. For ten thousand words, Prusiner just goes on and
on about prions bonding with other prions as if he were studying the
mating habits of penguins. His 10,000 word magna opus never mentions the
words 'meat,' once. You'd think that if an obscure, New Guinea cannibal
brain disease showed up in American war veterans, researchers would ask
questions like 'why don't doctors do Alzheimer's brain autopsies in a
designated-to-be-compromised lab put in every city and why don't
veterinarians do cow and sheep autopsies in every slaughterhouse?' Why
cling to this dainty-lab fetish? The average kitchen is already as
infected as any morgue on the planet. So OK, maybe science has made a
few boo-boos here but why the enormous non-confront and zip-the-lip
silence from all interested parties? Is it that lab restrictions are too
tough or that scientists are ostriches, or that governments and world
banks fear bankruptcy? Or is there some kind of oligarchic 'Life-boat'
theory at work? (i.e. that the upper classes have decided to toss us
peons out of the lifeboat.) All of that is possible but in reality,
there probably is simply some kind of myopic stupidity that goes with
specificity. Scientists are Johnny One-Notes. They wander around in
their specialty, in Prusiner's case, stunned by a maze of bonding prion
molecules and can't see the forest for the trees. Let's give these
eminent men the benefit of the doubt. Maybe---until last week,
scientists never connected CJD to an obscure British disease that was
related to an even more obscure sheep problem related to a positively
arcane cannibal disease of the 40's. Nobody could connect the dots. The
puzzle pieces stayed in the box because for the last 25 years, CJD has
been able to hide behind the skirts of Alzheimer's. The Alzheimer's
Foundation itself seems to be clueless, saying that if current trends
continue, 14 million people will have Alzheimer's by the turn of the
century. No mention of CJD from them. If (as Pittsburgh concludes) 6% of
Alzheimer's cases are really CJD, in the next 4 years, 840,000 US humans
will die of CJD and if they were of childbearing age when they caught
it, 2 million children and 4 million grandchildren carry it in their
genes and these 4 million people walking the USA today do not know that
they will go into spasms, then idiocy, then comas, costing the families
and the health system $120,000 per patient and so will all their
descendents, forever. Today we see the obvious feature of Alzheimer's;
this genetic disease was doing something genetic disease don't do,
doubling and tripling its toll. There was certainly reason for
scientists to suspect another culprit but, except for Crazy Lacey of
Leeds, nobody did. After Lacey was excommunicated, of course, maybe
nobody wanted to be a whistleblower.

It remains to be seen if, now, in the light of England's admission, US
researchers will inculpate meat, develop tests, do brain autopsies, and
convey true CJD death tolls to the press and public. Or, will Stepfather
Bank and the government prevail and prod scientists to keep quiet to
avoid creating mass panic, a stock market drop, World Bank rollover, the
whole enchilada. Admittedly, if there's even a whisper of prions in
America, huge losses would result to the U.S. 50 billion dollar a year
meat industry. They have in Britain. Five days after Dorrell's admission
that CJD was BSE, and prime rib could kill, the entire European Union
ordered its second ban on British beef exports.(The first had expired.)
A 6 billion dollar a year beef export market collapsed in a single day.
Loose lips sink world economies but silences go before apocalypses.

It's been a month since the truth came out of its burrow and, except for
Oprah, the media hasn't touched this hot potato. Does somebody in some
penthouse somewhere up there not care if the lumpen proletariat dies
raving? Would it really be easier to get a taxi in Manhattan and get
tickets to a hit play if, say, 3 billion of us just shuffled off this
mortal coil? The British power structure covered its ears for 25 years.
Banks seem not to want to hear mad scientists, gloom-and-doom prophets
saying a high profit commodity might be deadly. Lacey wasn't the only
voice in the wilderness. There were others Haresh Narang, a
microbiologist, hired by the Public Laboratory Services in New Castle,
said CJD in humans came from BSE. Microbiologist Dr. Steven Doeller,
said scrapie, CJD and BSE were the same thing. All were roundly ignored
but a quarter century of misdemeanor petty denial was trumped in 1995, a
halcyon year of felony-sized cover-up, when Dr. Lacey's book on Mad Cow
was trashed in the British Medical Journal and shrugged off by New
Scientist, (helping the book sell, actually). His book made the Beef
Industry so nervous that in December l995, 3 articles were planted in
prestigious British journals The Economist, Nature and New Scientist,
saying there was nothing to worry about, Lacey was crazy, all three
written by that eminent scientist "Anonymous."

British Doctors who refused to sign their names cooperated with public
officials in a quarter century long 'news-out' while simultaneously,
rising CJD deaths were brushed off as Alzheimer's. The truth was staring
them all in the face; BSE affected the same part of the brain in humans
as in cattle, as in New Guinea cannibals. The peppy prion was always the
perpetrator. But if a prion were caught en flagrante on the nose of a
cow, for 26 years, officialdom did not want to know about it, not in the
early 90's when the first of the 117 known human victims appeared, , and
not when 300 cows a week were dying of the disease, which they are now
in Britain. That the Brits admit anything about soggy brains and beef is
probably valiant when you compare it to the American response. When the
USDA heard that Britain was planning to slaughter ll million cows they
said brightly 'Great, we'll sell England our beef. We have a
surveillance program here, we've gone through 43 states, and seen 2,660
specimens and found no cases of BSE." Apart from the greed of that
statement, examine its mendacity. The USA has approximately 200,000
animals slaughtered daily. If they did open the skulls and look inside,
this test still represents one out of 75 cows, or 3/4 of ONE percent of
the daily CORPSE PILE. Worse, all officialdom here knows full well that
sheep are still fed to cows. Convenient silences and outright lies seem
to have migrated to the new world, along with infected sheep. MIT and
the NIH first explored a connection between BSE, animal foods and
dementia as far back as l981, when American cows began to come down with
a mystery disease known as "Downer Cow Syndrome,' suspiciously like BSE.
Many of the downers had previously exhibited symptoms of the jitters,
others just suddenly dropped dead. Their brains were fed to mink who
quickly manifested Mad-Mink disease. In any case, downer cow corpses
revealed BSE brain pathology yet not a peep came from these scientists,
not a whispered word to the farmers to stop rendering sheep into cattle
feed, not a warning to the public to stop feeding beef to children.
Okay, NIH is Washington, but what could provoke MIT to put a sock in it?
Are they federally funded or something? MIT scientists knew the truth
yet American farmers were allowed to sell sheep corpses for 26 years and
cow corpses for 15. Worse, you and I were allowed to feed infected meat
to our children. When the scandal first hit, one Department of
Agriculture staffer actually said that the rendering practice has been
outlawed in the USA. A few days later, another staffr said 'we
discontinued (that practice) earlier.' Two liars tripping over each
other. The truth is, to this day, it has been left to the farmer's
discretion. There are no laws on the books. In all other countries the
'cash for corpses' practice is illegal. In the USA it is entirely
voluntary whether a farmer renders corpses or doesn't. No US farmer can
afford to ignore free hundred dollar bills so render they do. Examining
the facts, it is clear that denial, lies and benign propaganda are
damage control, intended to prevent panic. A cynic might say that they
were intended to allow knowledgeable investors to profit as the US
cornered the world beef and feed market. U.S. grain futures SOARED to a
15 year high after Britain's admission, in anticipation of all that US
beef and feed being exported, so no one can say the cynic is wrong. The
Brits saw through us; they screamed that we have plenty of the disease
here, that they got their sheep powder practices from us. They want all
American animal products banned saying that the awful offal powder is
fed not only to US cows, but reminding us that meat and bonemeal
imported from Britain(1980-1989) was used for U.S. poultry feed. Again,
USDA officials responded with trickery, pulling out a red herring,
saying they've never found a sick chicken. Of course not. The problem
with detecting the disease in birds is that they never live long enough
to get the Swiss cheese brain. The average fryer is mature at 32 days.
(Before the wonders of chemistry and all those magic pep powders, it
took farmers a costly 84 days to mature a bird.) No U.S. fryer lives
long enough to manifest dementia but if it's genetically in his brain,
it's in the strands of his nerves and he lives more than long enough to
give the disease to the person who eats a KC extra crispy drumstick or
an Egg McMuffin.

NOTE The practice of rendering bodies and using them for animal feed was
not stopped by federal law until almost a year later. On January 3rd,
l997, it was announced that offal could no longer be used to feed
animals eaten by humans. Mad Cow Disease is nature's last laugh on
mammal-eat-mammal mankind. As Dr. Deandrea says in his L.A. lectures,
"Mother Nature has spoken 'you have mindlessly eaten your little
brothers so I am taking away your minds.' " There's no way out of this
predicament. The disease is incurable, "made of kryptonite or linoleum,"
joked Dr. Prusiner. "Gives a new meaning to what we think of as alive"
implying what's not alive cannot be killed.) Healthfood nuts may preen
that their beef was raised organically, fed only grain and grass. The
problem in logic is that this is a genetically transmissible disease.
The unorganic Cow passes it on to her milk-lapping calf who is already
infected when he is sold to the organic farmer. Mom gave BSE to her baby
both through the cagy prion taking over her DNA and through her udder.
Baby's healthfood diet does not stop the slowly eroding sponge brain
from invading this happy, healthfood-chewing heifer or invading a
chicken's egg or invading your child when she eats a veal chop at dinner
and follows it with a glass of milk swimming with prions, using dishware
in a kitchen so infected with prions that if it were a laboratory, it
would be burned down to the ground. WHAT ABOUT COOKING THE MEAT OR MILK?
The pasteurizing of milk, at 150 degrees, makes the prion think it's a
sunny day. The cooking of meat at 212 degrees makes him think he's in a
pleasant sauna. Raising the heat to frying in the 320 range might make
him even blink but you must reduce the prion to total ash at 340 degrees
centigrade (in our American fahrenheit system that would be 800 degrees)
to immobilize him and take away his sexual potency ---his ability to
replicate. There is no solvent known to immobilize the Mad-Cow spore.
This kind of microbial tenacity is so Sci-Fi it raises the hair of the
medical community. If you ask a doctor to do an autopsy of a patient who
died of CJD, he flees, knowing that if he exposes his lab to this
disease, the lab will be closed down by government officials. The NIH's
Paul Brown maintains told reporters that he can clean prions off his
hands with Ivory soap. There is a long line of men we'd nominate for the
"America's most dangerous man" contest but Brown is a serious contender
for the crown. The truth is simple. The medical community has no cure
for CJD. It is very simply fatal. Alternative, holistic remedies have
not been tried on the prion. Dr. Richard Deandrea feels that if you
think you've been exposed, enzyme therapy might work, seeing that
proteins can be dissolved by enzymes which are found in raw foods. But
Prusiner has written that this protein molecule laughs off all the
enzymes he tried on it. So it looks inevitable. Choose vegetarian
proteins like hummous, tofu, beans. You'll be healthier in every way as
these proteins don't tax the immune system as much as 'foreign flesh.'
Immune systems love a whole, live, raw food diet so eat raw, dark-green
salads with nuts, sprouts and seeds. Do as much cleansing as possible,
through colonics. Take periodic raw juice fasts. Besides a vegan diet of
vegetables grown on organic soil, take 'good fat' supplements like
flaxseed, Evening primrose and borage oil, also the oils found in nuts
and seeds. Don't increase dairy, it clogs digestive tract and could be
infected with prions. Make almond milk, brown rice milk, tofu milk.
Avoid soy milk. It lines the gut with plastic. Don't use soybeans in any
unfermented form or give soy formula to babies. It has been implicated
in the rising 'crib death' rates. Use fermented soy like miso, tofu,
tempeh. Discover the pleasure of tahini. Make your own humous, a kind of
Israeli bean dip. Take multi-vit supplements. Blue green algae,
spirulina, chlorella are complete foods with B-12. Animal-source B-12 is
dangerous now. Last, get rid of all other eco-hazards that stress the
immune system flouride toothpaste, perfume, dental fillings, solvents
like propyl alcohol, (used in all soap, detergent, shampoo and to clean
all factory food and juice machines.) Go 100% natural.

If Mad Cow is in meat, it could be in dairy products and eggs; it's in
mayonnaise. It's in the gelatin in candy or around a vitamin pill. It's
in blood meal fertilizer, urea fertilizer and the manure clinging to
mushrooms. Animal derivatives are used in vaccines, pharmaceuticals like
Premarin, in glandular substances used in holistic remedies like
melatonin, in petfoods, gloves, film, plastics. British leather was
banned by Egypt a week after Minister Dorrell's admission. The sons of
the Pharaohs aren't dumb. Total vegetarianism may be the answer until
this is cleared out of our livestock. Vegetarianism always was a do-able
thing. Some say that Type O blood does not do well with it, so type O's
might continue to use fish, but Type A's can easily embrace millet,
avocado and sprout-proteins. If you insist on meat, find LIVESTOCK
ALTERNATIVES Learn to Hunt. Get Game meat, venison, quail; shoot
pidgeons in the park. Learn to fish get freshly caught deep-water fish,
making certain it is not a variety like swordfish, filled with Mercury.
Get a boat, eviscerate the fish the moment it's caught, put on ice, then
in your freezer. Do not catch shallow-water coastal fish as the huge
amount of Mercury concentrated in fish is implicated in Multiple
Sclerosis and other neurological problems. There is also a lot of deadly
dioxin in the water, and cadmium and nickel from batteries being dumped
off the shore. FISH will be the last animal protein source, but the
fishing industry (totally fished out now) cannot be expanded. Fish will
shoot to l00$ a pound so get a boat now or start fish farming. FOR
FLUFFY AND SPOT Discontinue all commercial foods made with meat
by-products. Get ANERGEN THREE from pet stores. Wysong makes "Vegie Cat"
a taurine supplement which you can sprinkle on top of cat's vegie food.

EVOLUTION pet food. (612) 858-8329. Last of all but most important Go
Kosher; put any cooking pot, that has ever touched beef, lamb, chicken
or pork in the garage for melting wax for candles or tie-dying, put any
dish, fork, knife or spoon into the cellar as relics for museums of the
future day when all this is behind us, or when there are methods for
sterilizing, ---perhaps in pottery kilns. Wearied by plagues, will the
American people forget and throw caution to the winds from time to time
sneak out for a hamburger with fries? Will nostalgia drive us to the
burger shoppe at midnight to take that one, last bite for auld lang
sygne? Heck, we've all slipped on diets but is noshing a quick Big Mac a
minor peccadillo like forgetting to practice safe sex when you're
overcome with passion or letting the cable bill go a day overdue? Made
blase by Aids, will US teens find meat-eating like playing Russian
Roulette with forbidden fruit? While we're on the subject of AIDS the
Christian right that was laughing up its sleeves at the sins of AIDS
victims will now watch their own number decimated in larger percentage,
in a much more prolonged, cruel way. I can see the t-shirt on Melrose,
now. "I only ate a tiny weenie, you ate the whole, damn cow." The new
enemy will inspire new philosophies and tactics. Will grammar schools
indoctrinate babes with "Say no to beef?" so thoroughly that, tiny
policemen, they will wrest that cutlet from our misguided adult hands in
time and report us to the food police? Mad Cow should really be called
the "Cannibal's disease" as only a mammal eating another mammal can get
it and that appears to be what went wrong on the planet Earth. We
started eating our little brothers. Too late we realize the celestial
logic behind the law on the tablet ---'Thou Shalt Not Kill'. I try to
think back to my last lambchop straining to recall the taste so I can
describe it to my grandchildren and wondering when the typos will start.
Is the seed of mush brains in me? Is it in my child? Can any of us ever
buy, serve, eat or wear animal products again? The promised H.G. Wells
'Things to Come' Armageddon seems to be here, complete with people
shooting disease carriers (cows, sheep and chickens) in the street. The
millennium came four years early. But brother, it came. And not with a
bang or a whimper, but with a moo.

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NOTE TO RESEARCHERS At Library, on computer listing Periodical
Abstracts, tap these SUBJECTS Blood donations, brain, beef, cattle,
epidemics, Geriatric psychology, Medical research, Farmers, Nervous
System, Neurology, Pathology, Proteins, Tomography. The word 'Mad-Cow'
brought up nothing at all for this writer, late March 96. Univ stacks
have Brit periodicals like Lancet.

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