AR-News: (US) Dave Louthan Speaks Out On Mad Cow Disease

Sun May 23 23:21:56 EDT 2004

Read the latest from "Mad Cow killer" Dave Louthan below.

You can listen to the radio interviews I did with Dave last February & March at

http://mikehudak.com/Radio/040223DL-MG-M44k-32-32.mp3 (Dave & Dr. 
Michael Greger)

http://mikehudak.com/Radio/040315DL-M44k-32-32.mp3 (Dave by himself)

Mike Hudak

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Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 02:53:01 +0000
From: David Louthan <maddddcow at hotmail.com>
Subject: Close your eyes so the BSE can't find you
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Hi friends. Dave Louthan here. I'm the guy that killed that mad cow. 
I killed that cow Dec. 9. It was processed into hamburger along with 
50 other cows and shipped to 8 states and it was eaten by 1000's of 
people. Some of those people will contract BSE and die.

We took a brain sample from that cow and gave it to the USDA the day 
we killed her. It took the USDA 2 weeks to get the results back from 
the lab in Ames, Iowa. It only took us 1 day to get that meat to 
market.

Here's a curious thing. At the time when everybody was up in arms 
about that cow being shipped and eaten the USDA said it couldn't be 
helped because the test they used takes two weeks to get a result. 
Now they are saying that any "non-negatives" also known as positives 
that turn up during the new test procedures using the fast test will 
be sent to Ames to be retested using the same test they used on my 
cow. But now that exact same test will be ready in 24 to 48 hours.

Here's another curious. During the 2 weeks after we killed the mad 
cow and before it was announced, for no apparent reason, the cattle 
futures market went crazy. It was as if somebody at the USDA called 
some of her cow trading friends and had them buy short and sell long. 
Yet another investigation is underway.

Out of an "abundance of caution" the USDA blocked the import of all 
beef from Canada after the discovery of a mad cow there. That was in 
May of 2003. That day at Vern's Moses Lake Meat we had a couple of 
dozen steers and heifers in the pens. They all had Canadian ear tags. 
We asked the USDA inspector what to do with them. He made a phone 
call. He informed us after a short time that the USDA had decided 
that all Canadian cattle that were on this side of the border were 
safe to eat. We slaughtered them and a flood of Canadians in the days 
that followed. No BSE testing was done.

Here is something that out to scare the hell out of anybody who has 
continued to eat hamburgers since word of the mad cow epidemic came 
out. We have been sliding into the burger stands and ordering up what 
we thought was good safe U.S. hamburger. After all BSE is a Canadian 
problem. Our mad cow was a Canadian. We didn't do any more testing so 
the BSE won't be able to find us. What we didn't know was the USDA 
secretly let their friends in the meat business smuggle in 30,000,000 
pounds of Canadian hamburger. Untested hamburger. Hamburger from a 
place that not even the USDA can deny is contaminated with BSE. 
30,000,000 pounds = 120,000,000 quarter pound hamburgers. That's one 
mad cow sandwich for exactly half the people in the United States.

If you have had a hamburger in the last year you have probably got a 
belly full of prions. These prions are small and tough. They go 
through your stomach lining into your blood stream. From there they 
find nerve tissue in your spinal cord, brain stem, and brain. They 
live there for a few years eating and multiplying until a few prions 
turn into billions and then they get down to some serious brain 
consumption.

You will be moody and unproductive at first. Then you will become 
very depressed. You will walk funny and be uncoordinated. Your family 
will think you're drunk or have a drug problem. A visit to the doctor 
will reveal a brain problem. It will be called genetic or 
spontaneous. The medicos and the government will be falling all over 
themselves to deny it's madcow. The doctors do not want to do an 
autopsy because they may be exposed to the disease and the government 
won't let them because it might spoil the beef business. You'll fall 
into a coma and you will die but not before your family has been 
buried in hospital bills. Better start saving.

A mad cow was found in San Angelo, Texas at a slaughter house. The 
USDA vet called the district office to see if he could test it. No 
absolutely not. Kill it and get it out of there quick. Word slipped 
out. Apparently I'm not the only whistle blower out here. The USDA 
said well yes we did have a little procedure problem there but don't 
worry that cow never made it into the food chain. That is the exact 
same thing they said about my cow. Don't worry they say that cow was 
sent to the rendering plant and made into pig food, pet food, and 
cosmetics. If you don't eat meat but you do wear makeup or you take 
medicine in capsules or gel caps you are also in danger of 
contracting BSE. The gel in the gel cap is made from rendered mad 
cows.

Pig Feed. They say it's OK to feed mad cows to pigs because they 
don't think pigs get mad cow. Dr Stanley Pruisner, the man who 
discovered prions has told us ALL mammals can get mad cow. A farmer 
needs some feed for his cows. He goes to the feed store. A sack of 
cow feed is $14.59. A sack of pig feed is $6.29. He knows the cows 
can't read. What do you think he is going to buy. Nobody is going to 
follow him home and make sure he gives that feed to pigs.

His cows are now contaminated. They look perfectly healthy but inside 
their brains they are developing little pink holes. They'll go to 
slaughter and no tests will be done because we don't do that. The 
meat will be cut into steaks and go to the butcher shop. You will go 
in and you'll ask the butcher if the meat is safe. Of course it is. 
This is Organic meat from Oregon. It costs more but it's worth it 
because it's Organic. Sure it is.

Here is the whole point of this tale. 5 months have gone by since I 
killed the mad cow. 5 months. The USDA has not tested one single 
solitary beef going into your dinner. Not one. Some meat companies 
have tried to but Madame Secretary Ann Veneman and her henchmen at 
the USDA stomped them flat. There is no way they are going to let 
another mad cow surface. The idea was to hold out long enough that 
the world, starved of good American beef, would fold and start 
importing our beef again. That didn't happen. Mexico did cave in. Dr. 
DeHaven, henchman
#1, says all the riskier meat the USDA was smuggling in from Canada 
was destined for Mexico so it should cause no one here concern. Sorry 
Senior. Better pick your ministers a little more careful next time. 
That one sold you out.

Our Government sold us out to. They traded our safety and lives for a 
hand full of gold. The Big Four meat packers bought the USDA lock, 
stock, and barrel. The USDA-Food Safety Inspection Service carefully 
examines each mad cow and passes it if it has no other problems. It's 
processed into nicely wrapped pieces of meat. You take it home and 
eat it. The more you eat the more prions you get.

I want to stop this mad cow madness. You can help me. I have talked 
to all the newspapers and radio and internet shows until I am blue in 
the face. I went to Olympia, Washington and talked to the Legislature 
and they changed the law. I went to Sacramento, California and talked 
to the Senate. They are changing their law. That law allows the meat 
packers in Ca. to test their beef for BSE. Soon California will own 
the export business and the beef raisers there will be mega rich. But 
for the life of me I can't get any network attention. If I could just 
get the word out on the evening news and some of our favorite daytime 
talk shows I know I could get this fixed. If you would be kind enough 
to start calling CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX and tell them who I am and 
that I have something that needs to be said. Call your Congressperson 
and tell them that I'm still here and squawking my head off and I 
need to get into the hearings in D.C. They know me. I talk to them 
all on the phone and often. I have taught them what questions to ask 
but that is not the same as standing at the podium and spewing out 
the cold hard truth.

Any help you people can give me on this will help all of us. If you 
can help get me there I can take the heat. I can't get there alone. I 
need all the help I can get. Take care friends.

READ THIS:

DON'T trust USDA about mad cow
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
Amid concerns about beef's safety, the US Department of Agriculture has
consistently sent a clear message: Trust us. We've got mad cow disease
under control. ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/174478_beefed.html>

Maddddcow at hotmail.com
http://www.davelouthan.org

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Mike Hudak, Ph.D., Director
Public Lands Without Livestock
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