Saturday, June 28, 2014

The Deadly Disease in Meat That Health Officials Are Ignoring

By Martha Rosenberg

But this month a fourth U.S. death [4] from the human version of mad cow, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), in Texas barely made the news. Neither did therecall [5] of 4,000 pounds of "organic" beef possibly contaminated with mad cow (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE) shipped to Whole Foods and two restaurants, in New York and Kansas City, Mo. The restaurant meat was eaten before the recall, speculated one news [6] source.

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