episode # 5 : 4 August 2008
Mad Cow 2008: How Now Mad Cow?
What the Corporate Media Isn't Telling you. Today we bring back our favorite Mad Cow expert Terry S. Singeltary Sr., a virtual walking encyclopedia of mad cow information. Terry has been fighting mad ever since he watched his mom die in 1997 of CJD and has become a world renowned independent researcher on the madness and has been dubbed "a Paul Revere with email." Mad Cow is in the US and there is a cover-up is his message. Listen to Vegan World Radio for all the information you have a right to know and that the corporate media is not telling you. All that and more on Vegan World Radio! today.




Beware La Vaca Loca
In the style of Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca" by Dr. Carl Winter
Click below to hear:
http://foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/html/audio/beware_la_vaca_loca.html

Today's Guest
Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
Independent Mad Cow Researcher
and World Authority

"I wouldn't be so zealous in getting the word out if I wasn't convinced that someone is covering up the truth. They used to say BSE would never transmit to humans, and it has. They lied about the feed ban being in place.  I've lost faith in the whole process. I've discovered too many things on my own."
                                          --- Terry Singeltary
                       independent researcher and world authority on TSE, BSE and CJD
                                               
Eleven years ago, Terry Singeltary, Baycliff, TX, watched his mother, Barbara Poulter, age 63, who lived in Crystal Beach, TX, die horribly from a  degenerative brain disease. Doctors told him it was Alzheimer's, but  Singeltary was suspicious. The diagnosis didn't fit her violent symptoms, and he demanded an autopsy. It showed his mother had died of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Strangely, one year before to the day, Terry's  next door neighbor's mother, also,  died of CJD. So, Terry has been intensely studying this disease for a  decade and has become a respected "walking encyclopedia" for researchers, reporters and families
with loved ones suffering with or dying from CJD.

Most doctors believe that sCJD is caused by a malformed prion protein deforming by chance into a killer. But Singeltary thinks otherwise.  He is one of a number of campaigners in the world who say that some sCJD, like the variant CJD related to BSE, is caused by eating meat from infected animals.

Terry said he became convinced that BSE is here as he watched his mother die. 
The rare, fatal brain disease is sometimes accompanied by severe  jerking.
 
 "She would jerk so bad at times, it would take three of us to hold her down," he said. "They can call it whatever they want, but I know what I saw, and what  she went through.
`Sporadic' simply means they don't know."

His mother started seeing brown spots in September 1997 and was virtually blind within two weeks. By the eighth week of the illness she was bedridden, and in the 10th week she died.
Before that she had been in good health, he said.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease  CJD is a horrendous infectious rapidly progressive  fatal brain-deteriorating disease for which there is no treatment or cure.  One strain, nvCJD, is linked to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (i.e. Mad Cow Disease) in Great Britain.
 
 CJD often escapes detection.
A common misdiagnosis is dementia or Alzheimer's Disease.

Body Parts of a Mad Cow

 In the UK: Terry's Counterpart
Christine with her dying son Andrew.

Christine Lord with her dying son Andrew.

My lost boy

Christine Lord, the mother of 24 year old Andrew, who died of variant CJD on December 16, 2007, reveals how her son fought the illness with courage and dignity in this personal and moving account of his death and its impact on her family.

A mother's story...

I was asked to write some words about Andrew and words are my profession. They usually fall seamlessly from my fingers to the keyboard.

But how does a mum write about her only son who has died at just 24-years-of-age of vCJD?

read her story here> http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/content/articles/2008/05/01/south_cjd_s13_w10_feature.shtml

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No one, no one should ever have to go through this. The lack of knowledge from the medical examiner's office was disgraceful. The fact that states are not obligated to report this disease is horrible. Any person with this disease is treated so inhumanly and the families too. The world has got to be told that such a disease exists.

from

The Many Faces of
Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Disease (CJD)

http://www.fortunecity.com/healthclub/cpr/798/cjd.htm

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A NEW form of fatal dementia has been discovered in 16 Americans, 10 of whom have already died of the condition. It resembles Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - with patients gradually losing their ability to think, speak and move - but has features that make it distinct from known forms of CJD.

Local health officials are awaiting test results to determine whether
a Corpus Christi man who died earlier this month had
the human form of mad cow disease.

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Seoul, Korea

Concerns of mad cow disease in US beef led tens of thousands of Koreans to a candlelight vigil protesting the plan to import US beef into Korea after it was  banned in 2003 when the first mad cow was found in the US.  Koreans protested for almost two months.  Koreans fear mad cow in US beef while US citizens have been lulled into complacency.  Imports have begun again, but some supermarket chains and restaurants say they are reluctant to sell US beef, fearing negative publicity.

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Related Websites on Today's Topic:

The Many Faces of CJD:
http://www.fortunecity.com/healthclub/cpr/798/cjd.htm

CJD WATCH
http://www.fortunecity.com/healthclub/cpr/349/index.html

CJD VOICE
http://members.aol.com/larmstr853/cjdvoice/index.htm

Today's show produced and hosted by
Shirley Wilkes-Johnson

email: Shirley@veganworldradio.org

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Contact Information for Today's Guest:

Terry Singeltary Sr.
independent researcher and world authority on  TSE (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalophy)
flounder9@VERIZON.net


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Saturday, August 9, 2008

The Houston Vegan Meetup Dinner

The Houston Vegan Meetup group will be meeting this month for their social Dinner on Saturday, August 9, 2008 at 5:30 PM at Azteca's Bar & Grill in Houston. Azteca's has a variety of Latin-inspired veggie entrees.

Visit HOUSTON VEGAN MEETUP for more info and to RSVP. Reese is the organizer of the Houston Vegan Meetup. This is a large meetup group, so RSVP early to reserve a spot!

SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2008
Society of PEACE Community Service Night with Houston's Food Not Bombs

Please join us as we volunteer and team up with Houston's Food Not Bombs to feed vegan meals to Houston's hungry on Sunday, August 10, 2008 at 7:00 PM. Volunteers can bring vegan food to share and we will all enjoy a community meal together.

If you can volunteer a few hours of your time, or wish to donate vegan food, please CONTACT US. Volunteers should meet at 7:00 PM near the Library at Smith & McKinney. Arrangements for group carpooling can also be made.

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