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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dilley@MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 10 12:41:36 2004
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From HARPER'S WEEKLY
February 10, 2004
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...A new study found
that many organic food products sold in the UK contain
genetically modified ingredients. Researchers at DeCODE
Genetics in Iceland found a gene that doubles one's risk of
heart attack. A former EPA microbiologist testified that the
agency knowingly used bad data to reject a petition to
prohibit the use of sewage sludge (known euphemistically as
"biosolids") as fertilizer.
The worker at Vern's Moses Lake
Meats who killed the Washington State mad cow insisted that
the cow was not a downer. "I can't stand a government
cover-up," said Dave Louthan. "Since we only had a few
walkers on this trailer full of downers, we just killed her
along with them. We took a brain sample from her head
because the USDA gives up $10 per sample. If we would have
unloaded her in the pens, we would have never caught the
BSE. How many other walkers have BSE? We will never know." A
panel of international experts said that mad cow disease is
now "indigenous in North America" and advised the United
States to ban feeding animal protein to cattle. The panel's
chairman said that if the U.S. performed adequate tests it
could find "a case a month." Foot and mouth disease was
killing cattle and pigs in Vietnam. Bird flu jumped the
species barrier to pigs, and Prime Minister Thaksin
Shinawatra of Thailand declared that Saturday was "Eat
Chicken Day."
