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Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet Jeremy P. Tarcher See book keywords and concepts

As this all sinks in, Anna and I come back to what seems to be lost in the controversy. The hormones in question are used to add more weight to cattle fastet—and this in a world in which overconsumption of meat is a growing health hazard. What's missing are opportunities for broad public debate on the best use of our precious food resources, venues where we can ask such questions as: Do we as citizens want the same precautionary principle that we use with drugs also applied to our food?

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James Garner, speaking for the American beef industry, said that about beef. That was just before the actor, who was so fond of beef, was hospitalized for a quintuple bypass heart operation.

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Studies in Michigan indicate that PCB exposure during pregnancy causes a delay of infant brain development, resulting in slower neuromuscular development, as well as causing decreased head circumference, birth MAD COW DISEASE The specter of mad cow disease increasingly overshadows the beef industry in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Mad cow disease, clinically known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a deadly illness resulting in a slow and painful deterioration of the brain, turning it into a mushy sponge.

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The Chemical Jungle: Today's beef industry," Int. J. Hlth. Services 20:277-280, 1990. 55. U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Operations. "27th Report: Human Food Safety and the Regulation of Animal Drugs," 99th Congress, Washington, D.C, December 31, 1985. 56. European Consumer Organization. "Notes from E.U. Conference on Growth Promotion," BEUC/007/96, November 29-De-cember 1, 1995. 57. S.S. Epstein. "Corporate Crime: Why We Cannot Trust Industry-derived Safety Studies," Intl. J. Hlth. Services 20(3):443-458, 1990. 58. S.S. Epstein et al.

Federal regulators and the beef industry claim that the hormones implanted in cattle are not harmful. The facts tell a different story. Although the government banned the synthetic hormone DES (diethylstilbestrol) in 1979, its illegal use by American meat producers continued until at least 1983, when nearly fifteen hundred veal calves from five different farms in upstate New York were found to be contaminated with residues of this illegal growth stimulator.

Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meal Industry Gail A. Eisnitz See book keywords and concepts

Would the beef industry's top spokesperson, an individual whose life's goal was to increase beef consumption, really make an appropriate candidate as the nation's chief watchdog ensuring compliance with regulations in federally inspected plants? According to the Kansas City Star, one of Assistant Secretary Smith's first actions, at the request of the National Cattlemen's Association, was to authorize the use of leftover tidbits of beef trimmings and cartilage and then allow them to be labeled as meat.

Just what would a revelation like that have done to Smith and the USDA, not to mention the beef industry to which she was so closely tied? What would have happened had the public gotten wind that the assistant secretary's own cattle—in a plant under her authority—had not been adequately stunned or stuck, and had had their heads skinned while they were still alive? X X X After six months, my chemotherapy drew to a welcome end. My hair started to grow back, shiny and even thicker than before. Along with my beautiful new hair came a new perspective on life.

When not lobbying Congress and testifying on behalf of the cattlemen's interests, "the first woman to represent the $30 billion beef industry," as the New York Times called her, spent her term traveling the country and giving speeches and media interviews. Determined to resurrect a faltering market by enhancing the public's perception of beef, Smith aggressively promoted beef consumption wherever she went. "No cattleman ever received the publicity that Smith did," reported the NCA's membership magazine. "She appeared in prime time on all three television networks.

By separating these morsels from beef byproducts and then allowing them to be included in beef patties, she was enhancing the carcass value of beef as much as seven dollars a head—a decision worth millions of dollars annually to the beef industry. I went to see Rodney Leonard, who had served as the USDA's Director of Food Inspection in the Johnson administration and now heads the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington, D.C. "Fat-reduced beef isn't meat," he explained. "It's fatty tissue, the solid part of fat. It's a gray, ugly mass. It makes you sick to look at it.

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Winfrey deliberately set out to defame the beef industry. As might be expected, the jury cleared Ms. Winfrey of that charge and granted her a "smashing legal victory."15 The Humane Society celebrated the decision in a full-page advertisement in the New York Times on February 27: "They tried to muzzle the Humane Society of the United States and Oprah Winfrey: they failed." Two years later, a federal appeals court ruled that Ms. Winfrey might have overly dramatized the effects of mad cow disease but that she had not given false information or defamed cattlemen. With this victory, Ms.

Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meal Industry Gail A. Eisnitz See book keywords and concepts

Part of Walker's job was to take blood samples from cows to test for bovine brucellosis, a highly contagious disease which causes abortions in cattle and has a major financial impact on the beef industry. He was stationed on a catwalk between two head-skinners and a man who used a pneumatic dehorner and huge cleaver to cut off the animals' horns and front legs. In theory, cattle in a slaughterhouse are either prodded along a chute into a "knocking box" or up to a conveyor/re-strainer, which then carries them up to the "stun operator.

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Winfrey argued that she had not intended the segment to be inflammatory, although her principal concern was for viewers, not the beef industry: "I do the show with the people in mind ... I don't do it for corporations."14 Her lawyers presented evidence that beef futures had been falling before the broadcast took place. Without saying anything about whether food-disparagement laws are constitutional, the judge decided that the cattlemen could not use them as a basis for the suit but would have to use business-disparagement laws instead; this meant that the cattlemen would have to prove that Ms.

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The U.S. beef industry continually expresses confidence in the nation's firewall, and says there is little risk to consumers. But as Newsweek noted in a March 12, 2001, cover story on Mad Cow disease, "In truth, however, America's safeguards and surveillance efforts are far weaker than most people realize." The expected rate of occurrence of CJD (the human variation of Mad Cow disease) has been 1 in 1 million people. Up until the advent of Mad Cow disease, CJD was, literally, a "one-in-a-million" disease. Yet in one U.S.

The lawsuit, filed in Amarillo, Texas, a month after the program aired, asserted that Oprah allowed "anti-meat activists to present biased, unsubstantiated and irresponsible claims against beef, not only damaging the beef industry but also placing a tremendous amount of unwarranted fear in the public." The behavior of Oprah Winfrey and Howard Lyman, stated the lawsuit, "goes beyond all possible bounds of decency and is utterly intolerable in a civilized community."62 After evaluating the cattlemen's case, however, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court saw things differently.

After learning that cattle byproducts were being used in cattle feed and that the American beef industry, in turning the cow —a natural herbivore —into a cannibal, was doing just what Britain had done for so many years, Oprah said, "That has just stopped me cold from eating another burger." Howard Lyman said that the disease could exist or be discovered in the United States, and that "we are following exactly the same path that the)' followed in England (using cattle byproducts in cattle feed).

National Cattlemen's Association63 "The beef industry has contributed to more deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital." —Neal Barnard, M.D., President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine ]V[y Friend Mike My commitment not to judge the food choices of others was sorely tested when a friend of mine came down with colon cancer. Not that my relationship with Mike had ever been particularly easy.

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Heinz, the beef industry Council, the California Almond Board, and the California Raisin Advisory Board.5 In addition to writing press releases and organizing news conferences, Ketchum aggressively markets its services in "crisis management," a growing specialty within the PR industry. In a profile written for O'Dwyer's PR Services Report, Ketchum boasted of its experience handling PR problems ranging "from toxic waste crises to low-level nuclear wastes, from community relations at Superfund sites to scientific meetings where issues like toxicology of pesticides are reviewed.

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In 1999, when the European Union spot-checked meat samples from the Hormone Free Cattle program run jointly by the U.S. beef industry and the USDA, they found that 12 percent of the U.S. "hormone-free" cattle had in fact been treated with sex hormones.4 Similarly, when the Swiss government checked U.S. beef that was supposedly free of hormones in 1999, thev found 7 percent of the U.S. "hormone-free" cattle had in fact been treated with sex hormones.48 The U.S. cattle industry continues to defend its use of synthetic hormones as completely safe.

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If we were to believe the culturally biased propaganda of the beef industry, a juicy steak dripping with blood is supposedly loaded with the high-quality iron that one cannot get anywhere else. Nowadays it is easy to be scared into believing the mythology that vegetarians will become anemic and therefore spleen yang-defi-cient. The research, however, shows this is just another cultural myth disseminated through the flesh-centered Chinese or American medical establishments.

Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meal Industry Gail A. Eisnitz See book keywords and concepts

Still, with the support of some key members of Congress and some of the country's most powerful agribusiness interests, the USDA official known to the beef industry as "our man in D.C." was retained by the Clinton administration. "Why did the Democrats keep him?" I asked. "USDA has always been an industry-run operation," Leonard replied. "With the Clinton administration, we held out the hope that there would be a change. Unfortunately, Secretary Mike Espy did nothing to change the basic focus of the program. In fact, the most significant act that Secretary Espy took was to retain Dr. Cross.

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