AR-News: Michael Greger interview on-line today

[Mary Finelli]

Listen on http://www.GoVeganTexas.org or http://www.KPFT.org


>From Janice Blue, Go Vegan Texas!:

WARNING: DON'T EAT THE LUNCH!

The Chicken has arsenic
The fish has PCBs and
There're hormones in the beef

Today on Go Vegan Texas!
Our special KPFT fund raising show
with Dr. Michael Greger



To pledge call : 713-526- KPFT... 713-526-5738

Dear Loyal Listeners,

Go Vegan Texas! will start a little later than [noon EST, 5 p.m. Greenwich] 
today because listener-sponsored KPFT is in fund drive...but we will be on 
the air longer or until 1pm.

Please join us and support our efforts bringing you the best of the best in  
vegan programming each week.. Today, is no exception...We have a very 
special  guest returning for you :

                    Vegan MD: Michael Greger

Dr. Greger is known to you as one of the top national experts on BSE, bovine 
spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease.  He was the chief BSE 
investigator for Farm Sanctuary since 1993 and the Mad Cow Coordinator for 
the Organic Consumers Asso. since 2001. Dr. Greger debated the National 
Cattlemen's Beef Asso. before the FDA and was  invited as an expert witness 
at he infamous Oprah Winfrey "meat defamation" trail.

Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and 
Tufts University School of Medicine.

Today, Dr. Greger will not only give you an update on mad  cow disease  ... 
and tell you what has been going on behind the scenes while the mainstream 
media buried the story alive within a week or two of the first US 
outbreak...but he will give you some other things to think about before you 
order lunch today" ... fresh from his February newsletter:

Arsenic in Chicken  - After reviewing 5000 chicken samples, researchers from 
the National Institutes of Health and the USDA's Food Safety Inspection 
Service recently reported alarmingly high levels of arsenic contamination in 
the flesh of broiler chickens

. These government researchers found that the amount of arsenic in chicken 
greatly exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency's new upper safety 
limit of arsenic allowed in drinking water. In fact, the amount of arsenic 
found in chicken was 6 to 9 times that allowed by the EPA. A "bucket" of 
Kentucky Fried Chicken would be expected to have up to almost fifty times 
the amount of arsenic allowed in a glass of water.

PCBs in Fish -  Those understandably scared away by the pesticides in shrimp 
and the mercury in tuna sought refuge in farmed salmon. Of course every 
study ever done on the flesh of farmed salmon found it to be swimming with 
carcinogens, but the salmon industry dismissed these prior studies as too 
small to be meaningful. Finally, though, after 2 years and almost 2 million 
dollars, a study was just released which contained an exhaustive analysis of 
over 2 tons of salmon from around the world.. The study was performed by 
some of the world's leading experts on industrial pollution at Cornell and 
elsewhere and published in one of the most prestigious scientific journals 
in the world.. The results sent shock waves around the world.

The study found that the levels of PCBs, dioxins and banned insecticides 
such as toxaphene were so high that based on Environmental Protection Agency 
guidelines, no one should be eating farmed salmon from anywhere in the world 
more than once a month. Fillets bought in supermarkets in Boston and San 
Francisco were so heavily contaminated that even a half a serving a month 
might be too much. And these recommendations just take into account the 
increased cancer risk.  The researchers warn that women and girls should be 
eating even less, since pregnant women can pass on these contaminants to 
their fetuses, impairing mental development and immune-system function.



Hormones in Beef  - Growth promoting hormones, with names like "Steer-oid" 
are fed, implanted or injected into more than 95% of U.S. cattle. They 
implant estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and a number of synthetic 
steroids. The FDA insists that, when properly used, these sex steroids pose 
no risk to humans. This is the same agency, though, that, under pressure 
from the poultry industry, took 20 years to ban DES, the hormone that caused 
all the vaginal cancers in the daughters of mothers exposed to it.

The European Union commissioned their own panel of scientists review the 
available research on the hormones in American meat and concluded that they 
"may cause a variety of health problems including cancer, developmental 
problems, harm to immune systems, and brain disease. Even exposure to small 
levels of [hormone] residues in meat and meat products carries risks."

Join Dr. Michael  Greger and co-host Patricia Greer, founder of the Central 
City Coop,  one of Houston's foremost advocates of raw vegan cuisine, and 
member of the Go Vegan Texas! Collective., Comittee on Health and 
Nutrition.. Pat has kindly and scrumptiously  prepared today's raw vegan 
lunch for KPFT staff and dedicated volunteers taking phone calls during 
today's  fund drive.

Remember to call 713- 526-KPFT or 713 - 526-5738.


Premiums for Today's Show include :

      1) Mad Cow USA:Plague of the 21st Century: lectures by Dr. Michael 
Greger on CD,
includes  Introduction  & Background, Prions, North America, US Feed Ban, US 
Surveillance, Cover Up, How Many People Will Die, Congressional Expose and 
Conclusion.

          2)  John Rose's videotape lectures on "Nine Programs to Better 
Health ."  John is a raw vegan and wellness consultant . Former Rockets 
coach,  Rudy T credits his remarkable recovery from cancer to following 
John's raw vegan diet and making healthy lifestyle  changes.
          Rudy T was a guest on our fall fundraising show  at which time he 
made the first public announcement of  receiving a clean  bill of health 
from his doctors.

         3) "Meditations on  The Inner Art of Vegetarianism: Spiritual  
Practices for Body and Soul" and the Work book (2 books) by Carol  Adams, 
animal rights advocate and feminist scholar, and author of  "The Sexual 
Politics of Meat" and her most recent book,
"The Pornography of  Meat."

Please call in your pledge of support today for Go Vegan Texas! vegan 
programming only on  one Pacifica station :  KPFT-Houston and Galveston...

Thank you,
Janice Blue
Host, Go Vegan Texas!
Now weekly every Monday at 11am (CST)
On Pacifica Radio
KPFT, 90.1 FM - Houston and 89.5 FM - Galveston

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Was running for her life.
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Contact Information on Michael Greger, Vegan MD


Michael Greger, M.D.
Chief BSE Investigator for Farm Sanctuary
http://www.nodowners.org
Mad Cow Coordinator for the Organic Consumers Association
ttp://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow.htm
(206) 312-8640
mhg1 at cornell.edu
185 South St #6
Boston, MA 02130

For periodic updates on the Mad Cow crisis send a blank email to
mailto: DrGregerMadCowUpdates-subscribe at lists.riseup.net

To subscribe to my free monthly email newsletter send a blank email to:
      mailto:drgregersnewsletter-subscribe at lists.riseup.net

Please everyone donate money to Tribe of Heart
      http://www.tribeofheart.org/jointoh.htm

WORLDWIDE PREMIERE OF PEACEABLE KINGDOM
words of praise from Dr. Greger's February newsletter

Having been blessed to see an earlier prerelease version, I can say that 
Tribe of Heart's new documentary Peaceable Kingdom is quite simply the best 
tool our entire movement has ever come up with to open people's hearts to 
the universe of suffering on factory farms.

Come to the World Premiere at Lincoln Center in Manhattan February 28th, or 
attend the West Coast premiere in March, or the Midwest screening in April. 
Or even better, go to http://www.tribeofheart.org/pk.htm and order copies of 
this life-changing documentary on DVD or video for literally everyone you 
know and a few extra copies for people you don't.

I've been waiting all my life for this day--the day that we would have a 
tool powerful enough to melt through all the defenses of those who couldn't 
otherwise bring themselves to face the reality. Our movement is forever 
indebted to Jenny and James and the Tribe of Heart staff and volunteers and 
supporters for the realization of this masterpiece of education, advocacy 
and outreach.  The least we can all do is make it a personal activist 
priority over the next year to getting this film seen by as many people as 
possible. Please go to http://www.tribeofheart.org/pk.htm to find out how 
you can help.

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