About two months ago I spoke with a woman who watched her brother in Michigan die of "Mad Cow" disease.
According to her:
"Mad Cow" disease is not only fatal, it is excruciatingly so. The disintegration of the brain causes such pain that no painkiller is effective against it. It's not worth the risk of becoming infected.
Fran Helms,
Topeka, KS
>>> gordon stelter <lclgcnp@yahoo.com> 10/25/2005 11:22 PM >>>
Touche, Barnard. Twain was a vegetarian ( along with
his pals Tesla and Edison ).
Thump
P.S. Make sure to write in 20 years, if your brain is
not a perforated sponge by then, which could affect
your occassionally charming wit! This is NO joke. The
current USDA-allowable practice permits possibly
infected flesh from "downer" animals to be ground up
and mixed with feed for billions of other animals,
possibly infecting many of them, and the humans who
eat them. Just because a cow is asymptomatic at
slaughter does NOT mean it is uninfected with
transmissable disease, due to the its lengthy
incubation period. And most "downers" are NOT
inspected before being ground up and added to the
animal or human food supply, according to industry
witnesses, adding to the risk. As a woman died a
horrible death merely from dusting her roses with bone
meal, I consider your "humor" on this subject
genuinely evil. Aren't you supposedly a Christian?
Moral: We reap what we sow. Rather literally, in
this case.
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