Remembering “Mad Cow Disease”
I saw a very interesting documentary on the DOC channel the other night. The disease in cattle called “Mad Cow Disease” began in England. this disease almost doomed the beef industry throughout the entire globe. So, where did this come from? According to this TV documentary, the cattle industry in England decided to cut costs and improve their profit margins by supplementing their cattle feed with ground up carcasses of sheep and cows. Before that time, their cattle where strictly vegeterian, eating local grasses, grain and hay. What happened when the cattlemen started making cannibals out of these innocent animals? The cows became sick.
For a number of years a disease known as ”scrapes” has been part of raising sheep. When a sheep contracts this disease it begins to scrape its body uncontrollably upon the nearest post or tree or whatever. Eventually it starts to lose its balance and control of its body. Then it dies. When cattle started being fed the bodies of dead sheep that had died of this disease, they started to show the same symtoms of scraping and loss of balance of the diseased sheep they were being fed.
The British government and meat industry had not put the pieces together yet. People had to DIE first. Two or three people came down with neurological brain cell damage and destruction that had not been seen before in humans. Scientists eventually discovered the disease they where seeing in human brain tissue resembled a brain disease they had known about in sheep for years. The question is, how did this disease get into humans? In the meantime, cattle were being euthanized all over the world, wherever “Mad Cow” was suspected. I’m talking about hundreds of thousands of heads of beef being killed or embargoed under the suspicion of being deadly. Economies were threatened in Europe, Canada, United States and even Japan. Something had to be done.
Scientists across the continents finally figured it out. Diseases can jump from one species to another. They found that cattle were being fed diseased sheep. Cattle were getting sick. No Problem! What became a problem was that people were now getting sick because were were eating sick cattle. When people start getting sick because of one industry it becomes worldwide news. When you get this news, its not to inform you about, lets say buying beef. The only reason you found out about “Mad Cow Disease” is because the story made money for print the press, TV, and all types of media outlets.
My blogsite is about Diabetes. It is also about our health. There are a lot of circumstances in life that are not in our control. For example, you live in a dictatorship. You were born in a rural village on the continent of Africa where you now have to buy your drinking water from a foriegn corporation. You live in the lower socio-economic level in America. The basic fact is no matter where welive on this planet, we must look after ourselves. Our governments are bought by multi-national comglomerates. The only reason why scientists discovered the roots of “Mad Cow Disease” was because it threatned the beef industry throughout the world. Economies could fail.
The Diabetes epidemic in America is not like “Mad Cow Disease”. It is not threatening anyone’s economy at the present. Diabetes effects Black People twice the times of White People. As more and more countries adopt the American diet of convenient fast processed food outlets, the rates of Diabetes will inevitablly rise in those countries. This fact will not matter to food corporations. They don’t care. How can a company care about you when they are selling you beef that has been fattend on the carcasses of dead sheep and other beef? Did you know that as much as 5% of your hot dogs, sausage and salami is sawdust? Check the food labels and look for celloulous fillers. It will be somewhere in the small print of the ingredients lable. In some ways we are like the cattle, being fed who knows what and becoming sick, even dying.
Nutrition is life. What we eat can mean life or the alternative. The food industry in America is corrupt and dangerous for the we, the consumers. We must get back to our “mother-wood since” as my dad used to say to me. I’m afraid of ground beef. Maybe I shouldn’t be, but I am. We must be more investigative in what we eat and drink. Watch out for all the disguised names of SUGAR. There is a reason for the explosion of obesity in this country in the past 30 years. Thus, there is a reason for this huge epidemic of Diabetes in America today.
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