Mad Cow DiseaseThanks all, for keeping us posted on this dreadful disease. Here is more info from Robert Cohen's website:
It was inevitable. The state of Washington is home to America's first mad cow....
Last summer, the U.S. destroyed Canada's meat industry by closing its borders to meat and dairy products from the north. Now it is America's meat and dairy industries that will suffer the consequences of marketing diseased flesh and body fluids.
Canadians shunned beef after their first case of Mad Cow Dis. Will Americans do the same?
A Holstein cow from a dairy farm in Mabton, Washington has tested positive. Mabton is in the center of the state, just 40 miles southeast of Yakima. The entire farm has been quarantined, but the damage has been done.
Americans have been drinking milk from that cow for many years. This is as bad as it get folks, for the disease is here. The plague is coming. Milk and dairy products may be the key to passing on Mad Cow Disease to humans.
The active substance that causes Mad Cow Disease to spread to humans and causes a brain wasting encephalopathy called Cruetzfeld Jacob Disease (CJD) is the prion. They are protein fibrils, crystalline in structure and are not destroyed by pasteurization.
Since one single cow filters 10,000 quarts of blood through her udder each day, chances are that an infected cow has spread her disease to humans in her milk. 10 pounds of milk are required to make 1 pound of hard cheese. 12 pounds of milk is used to make 1 pound of ice cream. 21 pounds of milk makes one pound of butter. (From Robert Cohen's website: notmilk.com)
"The light given me is that it will not be very long before we shall have to give up any animal food. Even milk will have to be discarded. Disease is accumulating rapidly. The curse of God is upon the earth, because man has cursed it." Ellen White, Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 357. (Written July 28, 1899)
"...In all parts of the world provision will be made to supply the place of milk and eggs. And the Lord will let us know when the time comes to give up these articles. He desires all to feel that they have a gracious heavenly Father who will instruct them in all things. The Lord will give dietetic art and skill to His people in all parts of the world, teaching them how to use for the sustenance of life the products of the earth." Ibid. p. 359. (Written in 1901).
Comment: The Lord speaks through circumstances and current events as surely as He speaks through his Word.
A word to the wise,
~Suzanne~
[This message has been edited by Suzanne Sutton (edited 12-25-2003).]