Re: [gardeners] OT - Mad cow disease in cats
T.L.Miller (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 15:01:31 -0500
3/11/01 2:36 PM dandixon@home.com Dan Dixon said:
>The current attempt to foment consumer hysteria in the U.S. over meat
>products appears to be driven by a David Fenton company called Environmental
>Media Services, an organization that is notorious for orchestrating
>anti-product scares regarding numerous issues such as pesticides,
>genetically modified foods, dairy products, animal rights, etc. In this
>case, Fenton et al are going after the meat industry. Newsweek is frequently
>inaccurate and regularly presents knee-jerk news. I have not read it, but I
>suspect the article contains the same junk-science that typically is used in
>anti-product propaganda campaigns driven by EMS and their clients.
Maybe he's trying to foment hysteria here, but, from what I read, in
Europe it's already pretty close to that. Beef consumption is way down
over there.
Tom Miller
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