Japan Today - News - Public worries voiced over U.S. beef at meeting - Japan's Leading International News Network

Japan Today - News - Public worries voiced over U.S. beef at meeting - Japan's Leading International News Network

I am dismayed with the trend in user comments posted here. There are ample reputable web site references, news sources, and USDA veterinary pathology and food safety witnesses stating their fears and lack of confidence in the USDA's testing methods for MAd Cow (BSE).

I understand that Japan as do many countries outside the Americas, have MUCH stricter Food Safety Standards than the US, therefore I implore the Japanese people to read and learn more about the politics and news events surrounding Mad Cow in the US.

For example please read:

1. Could the Nightmare happen again?- a definitive time line of Veterinary investigations of Mad Cow in the US
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mad_Cow_USA/Could_the_Nightmare_Happen_Here%3F

2. the CBC news story posted:
Concerns raised about 1997 U.S. mad cow tests
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/04/12/usbse050412.html

and from them understand that MAd Cow may be willfully undiscovered.

"One of the USDA's top officials told CBC News that
> the U.S. testing
> program was never designed to catch every single
> case of mad cow
> disease. It was simply meant to measure how much
> disease there is." http://www.cbc.ca/storyview/MSN/world/national/2005/04/13/usbse050413.html

+++please note+++

Mad cow may be linked to the Human Alzheimer's disease, therefore, American death tolls are not good indicators of Mad Cow's prevalence, and many Americans today may be unknowingly suffering Mad Cow's affect.

--Could Mad Cow Disease Already be Killing Thousands of Americans Every Year?
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0107-07.htm

---Prion Data ( "prions" are the high heat resistent protein agents in the brain that cause Mad Cow and dementia in humans known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)
http://www.priondata.org/data/A_newsApDec04.html

more references:

---USDA Denies Allegations of More Mad Cow Cases (reuters)
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/print?id=666803

CBC interview of Dr. Masuo Doi
http://www.cbc.ca/storyview/MSN/world/national/2005/04/13/usbse050413.html


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