Mad Cow U.S.A.: Could the Nightmare Happen Here?"Mad Cow U.S.A." is the terrifying, true tale that industry hopes to censor. The U.S. has its own versions of the brain-wasting disease killing cows and people in Britain. In the U.K., the meat industry feeding practice of "animal cannibalism" has unleased a deadly human demential easily mistaken for Alzheimer's, and spread by infected meat. Yet, U.S. agribusiness still feeds billions of pounds of animal waste back to pigs, chickens, cows, dogs and cats. Rampton and Stauber reveal an amazing world of brilliant scientists, callous industry, courageous victims and cowardly bureaucrats, united by a mysterious killer that threatens a global epidemic -- unless we heed this warning. |
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
THE THING THAT EATS YOUR BRAIN | 25 |
THE INTERESTS OF INDUSTRY | 59 |
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| Title | Mad Cow U.S.A.: Could the Nightmare Happen Here? |
| Author | John Clyde Stauber |
| Contributor | Sheldon Rampton |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Common Courage Press, 1997 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 4, 2009 |
| ISBN | 1567511112, 9781567511116 |
| Length | 246 pages |
| Subjects | › › Antiques & Collectibles / Toy Animals Health & Fitness / Diseases / Nervous System (incl. Brain) |
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