mad cow disease (Page 6)

On our Dreamlandscience report this week Linda Moulton Howe interviews Mad Cow expert Giuseppe Legname, who says that U.S. efforts to control this disease are so bad, he’s stopped eating meat. Dave Louthan, who actually killed the mad cow on December 26, 2003, said the same thing on Dreamland recently. Now Tom Ellestad, owner of Vern’s Moses Lake Meats, where the cow was slaughtered, confirms that the cow was not a “downer.” This means there is no way to identify which cows have the disease unless every one of them is tested, and we now only test about 20,000 cows a year out of 35 million. The U.S. says it will test 40,000 cows during the upcoming year. France tests about 50,000 cattle every week, and Japan tests all cattle that are slaughtered for food. Dr.read more

Both on the Dreamland program and as a special interview available in the last slot on Unknowncountry.com’s Windows Media Player (reached by clicking “Listen Now” on the right side of our masthead), Whitley interviews Dave Louthan, the man who actually slaughtered the mad cow that was found last December. Dave is now a man with a mission because, as reported by the New York Times, he says that the USDA is mishandling the mad cow problem and we are in serious trouble. This is a not-to-be-missed interview. Because we have no advertisers to tell us what to do, Dave can hit harder on Dreamland than he has anywhere else from the New York Times to the dozens of talk shows he’s been on. This is the most revealing interview he has given!
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In the February 3 New York Times, Donald G. McNeil interviewed Dave Louthan, who slaughtered the cow on December 9 that was later discovered to have had Mad Cow Disease. He disputes the official statement that the diseased cow was a “downer” and says, “Mad cows aren’t downers. They’re up and they’re crazy.” This means they’ll be much harder to identify, unless every single cow is tested. He also says that during slaughtering, debris from the spinal cord, where the dangerous prions lurk, “runs all over the beef.”
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Seven people died of the human form of Mad Cow Disease in New Jersey, with their only contact being that they all ate in the same racetrack restaurant, making one wonder what was being served there.

Faye Flam writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer that the seven victims of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease had all eaten at the Garden State Race Track in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Janet Skarbek brought the cases to the attention of the Center for Disease Control because her friend Carrie Mahan was one of them.
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