Must see - http://www.beef.com

Especially worrisome for those who consume beef products should be the fact that cooking cannot
destroy the organisms responsible for BSE and its human counterpart. At this point it is best to
give up all meat products. Not much is yet known about what causes it, but one thing is certain, it
is the culmination point of mistreatment and abuse of animals by the so-called civilized world. It
is another HIV or SARS.

Read the following:
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HOW BSE WORKS

BSE is spread by contact with brain or other nervous-system tissue from an infected individual.
Contact can be from eating food or food by-products that have been contaminated with nervous tissue,
or from instruments that have contacted diseased nervous tissue. Once the infectious agent enters
the brain, it can lie dormant for several years (even as long as 10 to 15 years). When activated,
the agent kills brain cells, leaving large areas of spongy holes. Also, large clumps of abnormal
prion proteins (plaques) are found in brain cells. Once the agent is activated, the disease runs its
course in less than one year, and ultimately results in death.

We don't know the agent that causes BSE, but we do know the following:

The agent must be small - The agent's size must be as small or smaller than a virus.

You can't kill it by cooking or freezing - Much higher temperatures than those used in cooking or
sterilizing are required to kill it.

Disinfectants don't work - Normal chemicals that you would use to disinfect surfaces for bacteria
and viruses (Lysol, Betadine) are not effective.

It does not appear to have genetic information (nucleic acids) - This finding has been questioned.

Research into BSE and similar diseases (nvCJD, CJD, scrapie) have provided three theories about the
agent that causes BSE. These theories lead us to believe that it is:

An unidentified virus or virus-like particle - Although the size of the agent is right, the
resistance to heat and chemicals, as well as the absence of any nucleic acids, would make it unlike
any known virus.

A mobile bacterium (Spiroplasma) - Many of the features of Spiroplasma infections are similar to
BSE, but there is no direct evidence to tie it to BSE.

An abnormal protein (prion) - Abnormal prions are found throughout the brains of BSE-infected cows,
nvCJD victims, CJD victims and scrapie-infected sheep. The protein is smaller than a virus and not
changed by heat or by disinfectants. This hypothesis is the most prevalent in the media, but goes
against many accepted theories of biology.

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Mirza Ghalib said:

Especially worrisome for those who consume beef products should be the fact that cooking cannot
destroy the organisms responsible for BSE and its human counterpart. At this point it is best to
give up all meat products. Not much is yet known about what causes it, but one thing is certain,
it is the culmination point of mistreatment and abuse of animals by the so-called civilized world.
It is another HIV or SARS.

Read the following:
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The greed of the farmers and the carelessness of the FDA are responsible.

Europe has already adopted strong measures against it.

And FDA has not enforced the ban on feeding of slaughterhouse waste.

This happens because rich people can buy "organic meat" at a higher price, which are devoid of all
these issues.

[email hidden] (Mirza Ghalib) wrote

Quoted message said:

Especially worrisome for those who consume beef products should be the fact that cooking cannot
destroy the organisms responsible for BSE and its human counterpart. At this point it is best to
give up all meat products. Not much is yet known about what causes it, but one thing is certain,
it is the culmination point of mistreatment and abuse of animals by the so-called civilized world.
It is another HIV or SARS.

If humans stop eating flesh how much of earth can be returned to forest cover?

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] (Romanise) posted:

Quoted message said:

[email hidden] (Mirza Ghalib) wrote

Quoted message said:

Especially worrisome for those who consume beef products should be the fact that cooking cannot
destroy the organisms responsible for BSE and its human counterpart. At this point it is best to
give up all meat products. Not much is yet known about what causes it, but one thing is certain,
it is the culmination point of mistreatment and abuse of animals by the so-called civilized
world. It is another HIV or SARS.

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If humans stop eating flesh how much of earth can be returned to forest cover?

I posted the following in 1996:

[ Subject: Bye-Bye Rain Forest (Sigh) [ From: Dr. Jai Maharaj [ Date: June 15, 1996 [ Newsgroups:
soc.culture.indian, . . .

BYE-BYE RAIN FOREST (SIGH)

by Jai Maharaj

(Excerpts from a feature article)

The largest democracy in the world, Bharat (or India, as foreigners named it), occupies the
largest part of the south Asian subcontinent.

When the country of nearly a billion people elected a conservative and benevolent political party
to form a government last month, it was maneuvered out by a leftist-communist alliance of
opposition members.

They installed a prime minister who seems to care only about the profits of multinational
corporations while placing the health interests of people at jeopardy.

Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda's cabinet has announced through its agricultural minister that
about 230 million acres of rain forest will be destroyed to convert it into a state of
"utilization."

Gowda was the chief minister of the state of Karnataka when he aided the invasion by foreign junk-
food chains such as Kentucky Fried Chicken to establish their franchise in what is the free
world's largest consumer market.

It has been shown that the flesh sold by such establishments is laced with neurotoxins like MSG
to make it palatable as food.

Multinational junk-food chains are a threat to any country's agriculture and environment. The
destruction of rain forests to clear land for the purpose of feeding animals promotes one of the
least efficient methods of food production.

Citing research conducted by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, wrote Pulitzer Prize-
nominee John Robbins in his book DIET FOR A NEW AMERICA:

"Agricultural engineers at Ohio State University compared the energy costs of producing poultry,
pork an other meats with the energy costs of producing soybeans, corn and other plant foods.

"They found that even the *least* efficient plant food is nearly *ten times* as efficient as the
*most* energy efficient animal food.

"Even the best of animal enterprises examined returns only 34.5% of the investment of fossil
energy to us in food energy, whereas the poorest of the five crop enterprises examined
returns 328%."

Oddly, the present effort to turn Bharat's green land into desert is being sold by the government
as a "green revolution."

Pradip Sethi <[email hidden]> summed up the
situation this way in a discussion on the Internet:

"Devgoda (is that how is name is spelt?) will be a disgrace to any Indian with an iota of
intellect. . . . He, at best, will turn out to be puppet with strings in the hands of dacoits,
crooks, ex-Maharajas, industrialists and mafias. . . . God help India!"

A reading list of valuable sources:

Robbins, John DIET FOR A NEW AMERICA, Stillpoint, 1991. Caulfield, Catherine, "A Reporter at
Large: The Rain Forests," THE NEW YORKER, January 14, 1985. Parsons, James J., "The Scourge of
Cows," WHOLE EARTH REVIEW, Spring 1988. Rifkin, Jeremy, BIOSPHERE POLITICS: A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
FOR A NEW CENTURY, Crown, New York, 1991. Rifkin, Jeremy, BEYOND BEEF: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE
CATTLE CULTURE, Dutton, New York, 1992.

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In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] (Romanise) posted:

Quoted message said:

If humans stop eating flesh how much of earth can be returned to forest cover?

I posted the following in 1995:

[ Subject: Re: Should I let my SO eat meat??? [ From: Dr. Jai Maharaj [ Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Camille

Klein) said:

Dr. Jai Maharaj said:

MEAT-EATERS HURT THEMSELVES, THEIR FAMILIES AND OTHERS

* The meat-eating habit kills rain forests, 38% of all rain forests destroyed in Brazil because
of it. Meat-eaters hurt everyone.
* The meat habit kills our supply of medicines, about a fourth of them come from tropical rain
forests. Meat-eaters hurt everyone.

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cattle ranchers are not the sole cause . . .
- Camille Klein <[email hidden]>

The Meat Habit Kills Our Rainforests:

To support the meat-eating habit, nowhere has the environmental effect of cattle raising been
more profound on both land and people than in Brazil.

Between 1966 and 1983, nearly 40,000 square miles of the Amazon forest were cleared for
commercial development. The Brazilian government estimated that 38 percent of all rainforest
destroyed during that period was attributable to large-scale cattle developments. Today,
millions of cattle are grazing on the cleared area of the Amazon. So vicious is America's
beef habit.

The tragic irony is that the land being cleared and enclosed is poorly suited for grazing. The
soil base in a tropical ecosystem is extremely thin and contains very few nutrients. These
ancient ecosystems exist in a climax state, quickly recycling energy back from roots to canopy
with very little allowed to remain on the forest floor. After just a few years of grazing --
generally three to five -- the soil is depleted, forcing the cattle ranchers to clear more
virgin land.

- Caulfield, Catherine, "A Reporter at Large: The Rain Forests" NEW YORKER, January 14,
1985, page 49.
- Parsons, James J., "The Scourge of Cows" WHOLE EARTH REVIEW, Spring 1988, page 44.
- Rifkin, Jeremy, "BIOSPHERE POLITICS: A New Consciousness for a New Century," Crown, N.Y.,
1991, page 51.
- Rifkin, Jeremy, "BEYOND BEEF: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture," Dutton, N.Y.,
1992, page 195.

The Meat Habit Kills Our Supply of Medicines:

Cattle-grazing is destroying the rain forests. Most Americans are so indoctrinated in the
marvels of the petrochemical and plastics revolution that they are unaware of how much they
rely on plants, many of them from tropical rain forests, to serve their daily needs.

Nearly a quarter of all medications and pharmaceuticals are derived from tropical plants.
Seventy percent of the plants identified by the National Cancer Institute as having anticancer
properties come from the tropical rain forests.

Many kinds of surgical procedures depend on the bark of the South American curare liana plants.
D-turbo turbocurarine and other alkaloids derived from different species of the Chondodendron
and Strychnos genera are used are used to relax skeletal muscles during delicate surgical
operations.

Steroid hormones like cortisone and diosgenin, the active ingredients in birth-control pills,
are derived from tropical species of wild yams found in Guatemala and Mexico.

Natural latexes, rubbers, resins, gums, dyes, waxes and oils from tropical plants are used in
industrial materials and as chemical bases for consumer products ranging from lipstick and
deodorant to cellophane and furniture varnish.

Still, despite the enormity of the potential biological losses, multinational corporations,
national governments, and local ranchers continue their relentless assault on the rain forest,
bulldozing, clear-cutting, and burning acre after acre of the richest biomass in the world,
destroying millions of years of evolutionary development.

- Meyers, Norman, THE PRIMARY SOURCE,
W.W. Norton, N.Y., 1983, pages 7, 8.
- Rifkin, Jeremy, "BEYOND BEEF: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture," Dutton, N.Y., 1992,
pages 197, 198.
- Caulfield, Catherine, "A Reporter at Large: The Rain Forests," NEW YORKER, January 14, 1985,
pp. 59-61.

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I want Bush and Ashcroft to declare that beef eating is a sin. There is no other way to make america
healthy and propserous.

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Must see -

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(Dr. Jai Maharaj) said:

Must see -

beef.combeef.comOpen ↗

Visit the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine web site for excellent food
recommendations:

pcrm.orgpcrm.orgOpen ↗

I love animals...

They're delicious!

PF

The first one is a horrible site with much misinformation. It is maintained by a bunch of
idiots (PETA).

Jeff

In article <[email hidden]>,
"harmony" <[email hidden]> posted:

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I want Bush and Ashcroft to declare that beef eating is a sin. There is no other way to make
america healthy and propserous.

Visit the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine web site for excellent food recommendations:

pcrm.orgpcrm.orgOpen ↗

Jai Maharaj mantra.comjaiOpen ↗ Om Shanti

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Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Must see -

beef.combeef.comOpen ↗

Visit the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine web site for excellent food
recommendations:

pcrm.orgpcrm.orgOpen ↗

Jai Maharaj mantra.comjaiOpen ↗ Om Shanti

[email hidden] (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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In article <[email hidden]>, "harmony" <[email hidden]> posted:

Quoted message said:

I want Bush and Ashcroft to declare that beef eating is a sin. There is no other way to make
america healthy and propserous.

Visit the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine web site for excellent food
recommendations:

pcrm.orgpcrm.orgOpen ↗

Jai Maharaj mantra.comjaiOpen ↗ Om Shanti

Quoted message said:

Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Must see -

beef.combeef.comOpen ↗

Visit the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine web site for excellent food
recommendations:

pcrm.orgpcrm.orgOpen ↗

Jai Maharaj mantra.comjaiOpen ↗ Om Shanti

You know Jai, I have been following posts and have been agreeing with a lot of things you had to say
until now. I will NEVER abandon yummy cow flesh. EVER!!! Good job with alienating yet another red-
blooded American.

"Jeff" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:bto4b0
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The first one is a horrible site with much misinformation. It is maintained by a bunch of
idiots (PETA).

Jeff

I really liked their letter to Saddam about the donkey bearing explosives.

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I think we should ask peta members to volumteer to deliver bombs. r

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[email hidden] (Romanise) posted:

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If humans stop eating flesh how much of earth can be returned to forest cover?

[email hidden] (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote i I posted the following in 1995:

As far as India goes I dont know how far back cattle was raise for its flesh. Only old cattle went
to slaughterhouse. From some areas like Gujarat male buffalo may have gone to slaughter house as
small calf because in Gujarat they were rarely used as draught animals. Male cow calfs may have
joined male buffalo calfs with mechanisation of agriculture particularly drawing water from wells.

[email hidden] (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote

Quoted message said:

Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda's cabinet has announced through its agricultural minister that
about 230 million acres of rain forest will be destroyed to convert it into a state of
"utilization."

Deve Gowda though originally from Congres Party was disliked by Indira's ramnants and had to vacate
for I K Gujaral.

Donr know what state of "utilization" he had in mind but most of forest cover of India was reduced
as cooking fuel. Since LPG has become common some forests have reappeared.