Mad Cow USA Now in Paperback

Our 1997 book Mad Cow USA, which foresaw the emergence of the deadly dementia disease in America, is now available in a new paperback version. The Bush administration is failing to put into place the measures necessary to stop the spread of mad cow in humans and animals: a complete ban on feeding slaughterhouse waste to livestock, and testing of millions of cattle. Eight years ago British scientists announced that mad cow disease was killing young people in Britain in the form of a new variant strain of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD). Now, new research is raising concern that mad cow disease might also cause sporadic CJD seen in older people. Dr. Michael Hansen of Consumers Union criticized the failure of the US to adequately test both animals and people for mad cow-type diseases. Meanwhile, the Government Accountability Project has provided information to Congress contradicting claims by the US Department of Agriculture that the US mad cow was a 'downer' unable to walk. GAP points out that it was a fluke that the cow was tested for mad cow disease, underscoring the need to test millions of cattle in the US, not the 40,000 the US says it will test in 2004.