Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1904 01:15:39 +0100 From: info <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Don't Ever Eat Mad Cow Beef ----- forwarded message ----- Subject: [KashmirForum] Don't Ever Eat Mad Cow Beef Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 03:13:43 -0500 From: "InfoTimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ============================================= INFORMATION TIMES: http://www.InformationTimes.com ============================================= Syed Ghulam Mustafa Foundation - Health & Medicine ============================================= Texas Cows Placed in Quarantine Because of Mad Cow Disease TEXAS, USA, 26 January 2001 (VOA): U.S. authorities have placed an unspecified number of cattle in Texas in quarantine over fears related to mad cow disease. Health authorities say they are investigating whether several farmers in the U.S. state accidentally fed cattle with animal protein. That kind of feed has been banned in the United States since 1997. The feed has been linked to the outbreak of mad cow disease in Europe. 80 people have died of the disease's human form in Britain, apparently after being contaminated by meat. ============================================ U.N. Food Body Urges Action Against Mad Cow Disease ============================================ UNITED NATIONS, 26 January 2001 (VOA): The United Nations' world food body is warning that mad cow disease could spread world wide and is urging governments to take action to reduce the risk of the illness to humans. The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization says all countries, not just members of the European Union, should take measures to protect cattle herds and ensure the safety of meat and beef products. The statement comes amid growing fears over mad cow disease in Europe and around the world. In Portugal, 50,000 cattle have been ordered killed in an attempt to purge herds of the illness. Authorities in Germany ordered the slaughter of one-thousand cattle in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt after confirming a mad cow case in one of the herds. The scare has resulted in bans on British beef exports, restrictions on exports from other European countries and a plunge in beef sales across the continent. The illness, spread by recycling meat and bone meal from infected animals into cattle feed, is believed to a fatal brain-wasting illness in humans, called Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease. Since the mid-1990's, an estimated 80 people in Europe have died from from the human equivalent of mad cow disease. E.U. agriculture ministers meet Monday in Belgium for talks expected to focus on the disease. The agenda is likely to include Thursday's statement by European Commission that it has run out of money to fight the illness. An European Commission spokesman said the Commission cannot afford to cover mounting costs of testing and destroying cattle suspected of having the illness. He says if Commission members want additional funds, it is up to them to come up with the money. ================================= European Commission Runs Out of Money to Fight Mad Cow Disease ================================= EUROPE, 26 January 2001 (VOA): The European Commission says it has run out of money to fight mad cow disease. A Commission spokesman says the group cannot afford to cover additional costs of testing and destroying cattle suspected of having mad cow disease. He says if commission members want additional funds, it is up to them to come up with the money. European Union agriculture ministers meet Monday in Belgium for talks expected to focus on mad cow disease. Meanwhile, Germany has ordered the slaughter of more than 1,000 cattle after a confirmed mad cow case in the herd. Germany says the affected cattle comes from a farm in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt. PHOTO of Two Cows http://www.voanews.com/mediastore/ap_mad_cow_0126_150.jpg [Publisher: Information Times http://www.InformationTimes.com America's online daily international newspaper Chief Editor: Syed Adeeb - Washington, DC, U.S.A. Copyright © 2001 Information Times. All Rights Reserved.] Kashmir Forum is the Information Times daily e-mail newsletter. Kashmir Forum (USA) http://www.egroups.com/messages/KashmirForum Information Times (USA) http://www.InformationTimes.com Post Messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kashmir Forum Editor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kashmir Forum Website: http://www.egroups.com/group/KashmirForum
