More Than 1,000 Violations Of Mad-Cow Rules: U.S. Agency

mad cow disease in Alberta was a hoax perpetrated by futures traders with the help of the mainstream US press. I cringe when I keep hearing about how Alberta is home to bad beef, this view has been shaped by the best propaganda regime in the world, - the USA government, financial industry and lapdog mainstream media

It is interesting how this article plays down the issue though. One case in Alberta and close the border, one case in the U.S. and 1000 violations and no biggy!

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

I find there may be some parallels between the "mad cow crisis" and GMOs. If I'm not mistaken, the problem originally srose when "scrapie" crossed the species barrier as a result of using animal protein in ruminant feed to speed growth and economise on feed expenses. One would think a lot of people would feel that there was something "unnatural" about basically feeding meat to herbivores. They might have even felt that there could be unpredictable problems down the road. But with the dangling carrot of profit, and in the absence of any science to indicate a problem, feeding animals to animals became common practice. Today we know what happened; cows died, people died, the industry is in trouble, etc. I believe (if there's a cattle farmer out there please correct me) we've been putting animal protein in feed for about 30 or 40 years, and it's only in the last 20 that we saw a problem.

Is it not possible that in another ten or twenty years, we might find horrible and irreversible effects as a result of growing and consuming at least some of the (now many) GMOs?