[2736] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
Re: veg in the news
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (it is his custom to be helpless)
Tue Feb 10 14:27:17 2004
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:28:51 -0500 (EST)
From: it is his custom to be helpless <krevice@sub-zero.mit.edu>
To: dilley@MIT.EDU
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other interesting veg news:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-996550,00.html
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 dilley@MIT.EDU wrote:
> >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."
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