U.S. meat supply widely contaminated with mad cow disease prions

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer
Tags: mad cow disease, prions, meat

(NaturalNews) Mad cow disease is a progressive brain-wasting disease. It is caused by a type of defective protein known as a prion and cannot be cured. The factory farming practices of feeding animals the nervous tissue of other animals first caused the ballooning spread of mad cow disease and created the current crisis. When it became clear what had happened, many countries banned feeding the tissue of ruminants (cows, sheep and goats) to other ruminants.

There's just one problem: ruminant tissue (including nervous tissue) is still fed to everything else. That means that chicken, farmed fish, and any other kind of meat might contain mad cow prions.

To make matters worse, fish meal, chicken feces and the bodies of other animals can then be fed straight back to ruminants intended for human consumption. An extra step has been added, but the concentration of prions in animal flesh continues.

Prions are NOT destroyed by cooking

U.S. consumers are widely taught to "cook the meat" in order to sterilize it. But prions are not bacteria. They aren't alive, and they remain completely unaffected by cooking. Even radiation cannot destroy prions. They can survive right through the meat packing process and wind up in your next hamburger.

Ultimately, the only way to reliably reduce your risk of mad cow disease is to avoid factory-farmed meat products altogether. Only organic beef from grass-fed cattle can be trusted. Any meat that comes from a typical feedlot operation may be infected with prions and could therefore be deadly to consume.

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Additional Sources:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow.cfm
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19507.cfm
https://www.naturalnews.com/028961_mad_cow_disease_health.html
https://www.naturalnews.com/026886_disease_farmed_fish_mad_cow.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/science/10brain.html?_r=2