US officials accused of covering up human deaths from BSE

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Dr. Lester Friedlander, a former United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) vet, had been blowing the whistle on the USDA beef inspection practices before the latest case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was confirmed. Dr. Friedlander said that inspectors are allowed only 15 seconds of inspection and that unhygienic practices are common in the meat industry; practices such as cow carcasses with abscesses being hosed off, wrapped up and shipped to the consumer.

Friedlander also claims that some supervisors were more concerned about falsifying inspection documents than protecting consumers and that on June 9, 2005, a cow in Texas with BSE symptoms was sent straight to the rendering plant without testing.

There have also been allegations of a "don't ask,don't tell" approach being applied by US health officials when confronted with human deaths which may be caused by eating BSE contaminated meat. The Organic Consumers Association reported last year that hundreds of people are dying in the US each year from vCJD (the human counterpart of BSE) and the deaths are being written off as "unexplainable". The disease causes holes in the brains of the victims.

A New Jersey lawyer, Janet Skarbek is being called "the next Erin Brockovich " for her research into the "Cherry Hill cluster" of 12 deaths she said were caused by people eating BSE infected meat;"I'm up to 12 confirmed cases of CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease), where it says CJD on their death certificates and where they all ate at the same racetrack.” Skarbek said.

I'm a big meat eater. . .this stuff does worry me quite a bit! What can I do short of turning vegantarian to protect me self?

Prometheus wrote:
I'm a big meat eater. . .this stuff does worry me quite a bit! What can I do short of turning vegantarian to protect me self?

Cook everything well done.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.