Yum Yum part 3

[MORTARDUDE]

On 12/26/2000 ABCTV's news show Nightline did a lengthy piece on mad cow disease-see their transcript at

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/...226_trans.html.

In the report they went to great pains to claim that:
1. There was not one case in the US
2. US cattle are not fed animal parts, bone meal etc-which is officially considered the likeliest source of the disease.

There are both knowingly false claims. Hundreds of thousands of animals in the US are infected. Once you read the quotes below about what US cattle are really being fed you'll never look at a steak the same way again.

You may recall that ABC investigative reporter John Stossel was reprimanded recently and forced to publicly apologize for a report he did that used false data to "prove" that organic food was no safer or more nutritious than foods repeatedly sprayed with pesticides. Once again ABCTV is up to it's old tricks, creating a seemingly well-documented news piece that is in reality nothing more than a vehicle for corporate disinformation.

Here's Nightline's summation of the mad cow story excerpted from their transcript. Note the claim about cattle feed then compare it to the US News and World Report excerpt and other related news clips below about what is really being fed to US cattle. Most European nations and Japan prohibit all imports of US beef, dairy and many other food-related products based on public health concerns.

The FDA, EPA and other health related agencies will be in charge of handling this issue under GW Bush. Considering who he has picked so far as his agency heads-virtually all of whom are connected to corporate polluters, the oil industry or the CIA-and the fact that cattle-raising states are his top financial contributors and political allies it would seem very unlikely that GW Bush will do anything to rectify this situation.

Perhaps the most ironic aspect of the Nightline piece was that it repeatedly criticized British and European leaders for deceiving their constituents about the problem in order to protect their food industries. We know that could never happen here in the US-right?

Nightline's mad cow story was just the latest effort by the corporate media to protect the interests of this nation's incredibly corrupt food industry-America's largest recipient of corporate welfare. However, protecting profits may only be part of the motivation. Spreading disease via the food supply is an effective method of Eugenics or population control.

While much of the media can be accurately described as having a CIA influence, ABCTV carries that influence to the ultimate degree having been directly owned by a CIA director and a consortium of top level US intelligence veterans. From 1985-1996 ABC was owned by Capital Cities-an investment company whose top stockholder was then CIA director William Casey. It continues to give the intelligence community's version of the news, particularly in shows like Nightline.

NIGHTLINE:
"MICHEL MARTIN Joining us now, Nightline correspondent Dave Marash. David, Americans do import some beef, so why isn't this a problem here?

DAVE MARASH Well, the real answer is, Michel, that meat and bone meal, the cattle feed used in the United Kingdom and much of Europe and the rest of the world, which is the likeliest cause of mad cow disease, is not used as cattle feed here. As a result, we have never had a home-grown case of mad cow disease. There have been a couple of cases of animals imported from overseas that turned out to be infected-principally sheep. They've been quarantined. And as yet, as I say, no American cases of mad cow disease."