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Protecting Yourself Naturally from Mad Cow Disease

Protecting Yourself Naturally from Mad Cow Disease

Rogue proteins, known as prions, are suspected as the underlying cause of vCJV (variant Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease), the human equivalent of Mad Cow Disease. The disorder affects the brain and central nervous system, and all cases to date have been fatal.

Believed to be spread by prions, infectious proteins in the body that are impervious to boiling, pasteurization, or radiation, CJD affects primarily younger persons, age 15-40, including vegetarians who have not eaten beef but who have eaten dairy food.

To prevent Mad Cow Disease:

  1. Avoid all animal foods, especially beef, dairy food, organ meats, gelatin, and other cow products.
  2. Avoid all factory-raised chicken, pork, lamb, and fish, especially salmon, trout, and other varieties, that may be fed rendered food made of cattle parts.
  3. Avoid hunting or eating deer, elk, squirrel, mink, and other wild game that may be infested from infected cow parts, leftover fast food, or road kill.
  4. Minimize sugar, spices, oil, alcohol, drugs, etc.
  5. To strengthen DNA (lacking in prions), eat organically grown brown rice, millet, and other cooked whole grains as main food, day-to-day, meal-to-meal. Other seeds will also help restore DNA, especially sesame and pumpkin seeds.

It is especially important to avoid dairy. Apart from its affects on health, the dairy and beef industries are so intertwined as to be indistinguishable. In the U.S. virtually all-dairy cows, including those raised organically, end up as hamburger. One of the best books on the cattle industry is Peter Lovenheim's Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf (Harmony Books, 2002).

As a journalist, Lovenheim, a non-vegetarian, bought two baby calves from a dairy farm in upstate New York to track them from birth to slaughter. Like Dr. Faustus in Marlowe's play, the question quickly arises whether he should see his epistemological project to completion? Lovenheim identifies with his priestly ancestors who slaughtered cows in the Jewish temple.

The spiritual dimension of raising food reminds Lovenheim of growing wheat in his backyard one summer to show his kids where food came from. "As I bent to lift the first sheaf, I was struck with a powerful sense of having done this before, even though I hadn't," he recalls. "Then I realized the motion of bending and lifting the sheaf is the same motion as lifting a Torah scroll. A Torah scroll is similar in size and shape to a sheaf of wheat and, like a sheaf, is bound around the middle with a sash or belt."

In the end, he listens to his better angels, takes the cows to the vegan Farm Sanctuary, and holds up a mirror to the nation's soul.


Alex Jack, president of Amberwaves, is an author and teacher. He lives in Western Massachusetts. Email is [email protected].


This article is from Amberwaves, Journal of Planetary Health, Peace, and Organic Living, Issue 9.

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