"There is every reason to be concerned about an outbreak" of mad cow disease in the U.S., said Dr. Neal D. Barnard, president of 4,000 member Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. He said practices that led to the mad cow outbreak in the U.K. are common in the U.S. That includes the feeding of ground-up animal organs, called offal, as a protein supplement to cattle, hogs and poultry. About 56 percent of all cattle feed contains offal, as does 66 percent of U.S. dairy feed, according to the US Department of Agriculture.

    Barnard told reporters at a press conference that the livestock and poultry industry should stop feeding animal remains, Congress ought to ban the use of offal as a livestock protein supplement, and that the FDA and USDA shouldn't certify as fit for human consumption meats of animals that are fed offal.

    Cowlinks

    http://inet.uni-c.dk/~iaotb/bse.htm The Independent Agrochemical Observer's Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy collection. Extensive set of links.

    http://www.cyber-dyne.com/~tom/Marsh.html BSE in U.S Cattle -- Scientific Papers.

    http://www.cyber-dyne.com/~tom/ban_on_US_beef.html Six growth hormones allowed in US but forbidden in EU.

    http://www.cyber-dyne.com/~tom/heifers.html BSE: Why Americans should be worried.

    http://www.yahoo.com/Health/Diseases_and_Conditions/Creutzfeldt_Jakob_Disease__CJD_/ No link between this horror and veggie burgers has yet been established.

    http://cahpwww.nbc.upenn.edu/bse/BSEinfo.html Has images of brain, human and animal, affected by disease. Center for Animal Health Productivity, School of Vetinary Medicine,University of Pennsylvania. Links to others.

    Unhappy, though animated, cow.

    http://www.essential.org/hightower/1996/ht960126.html Jim Hightower on Food Disparagement laws.

    http://www.newveg.av.org/howard.htm Howard Lyman interview on Geno Michellini Show 2/96 KFI Radio , Los Angeles,CA.

    http://www.mcspotlight.org/people/witnesses/animals/lyman_howard.html Ex-beef farmer Howard Lyman continues to speak out dispite Food Disparagement prosecution brought against him in Texas.

    http://diamond.mtk.nao.ac.jp/~bfr/McSpotkit/tok/case/trial/tnews2.html The High Court libel trial brought by the $26 billion a year McDonald's Corporation against two unwaged London Greenpeace supporters.

    http://diamond.mtk.nao.ac.jp/~bfr/McSpotkit/tok/campaigns/current/msc.html The McLibel Support Campaign ("MSC") was established to generate solidarity and financial backing for the McLibel Defendants.

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