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Animal Pharm: One Man’s Struggle to Discover the Truth about Mad Cow Disease and Variant CJD

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If you read any book to find out more about Mad Cow disease, read this one. This guy offers a very in-depth, scientific, and fitting theory to explain Mad Cow and related neuro-degenerative diseases. He fuses several different scientific and academic disciplines in his attempt to take the mystery out of Mad Cow disease with first-hand, peer-reviewed research, and submits that it is rather a combination of several different factors that cause Mad Cow and variant-CJD; primarily a lack of trace elements in the body that are essential to the brain's blood-barrier defense, then followed by, simply put, heavy metal poisoning of the brain.

He studied clustered cases of CJD and Mad Cow around the world and discovered that at every location in which more than one case appeared in a locality, there was also a source of metal contaminant pollution nearby - often, he noted, upwind of the outbreak location - such as military munitions factories and disposal sites, and manganese mine and quarry outfits.

This book made a lot of sense to me with its truckload of scientific facts and figures, and has inspired me to take an interest (and maybe someday pursue further education) in possible chemical explanations of similar brain diseases.

This book should be required reading for every meat eater on the planet. Purdey died much too young just a few years ago, and one must wonder (after the other mysterious deaths that occurred as he was investigating the link between mad cow and pesticides) just how much good he could have done if he had lived. Purdey's research is no doubt extremely unpopular with the mega-corporations that make the pesticides and the governments that rubber stamp them. All the more reason to arm yourself with this knowledge. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.

This book sets out a logical explaination for TSEs. Much of the present policies and popular expalation for scrapie in sheep has been
extapulated from research on lab animals. How scrapie behaves under natural circumstances is not the same as in lab animals. Yet the present polcy is driven by the lab results. The tracking of cases of Mad Cow certainly supports the enviromental influences.