Tag: MAD PIG

MAD COW MUST BE IN THE PIGS AS WELL AS THE CATTLE

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | October 14, 2012 | 2 Comments

BUT WAIT IT GETS MUCH WORSE I’ve been setting the stage in this series of articles to demonstrate how theoretically mad cow could indeed be flourishing in the USA’s beef industry. We’ve discussed the CAFO process and the role of the rendering industry. According to several Nobel Laureates (both experts in prion diseases) there are […]

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RUMINANTS GONE WILD: MAD COW DISEASE AND CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE IN AMERICA

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | October 7, 2012 | 3 Comments

RUMINANTS GONE WILD: MAD COW AND CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE IN AMERICA There’s this little protein thingy called a PRION. …the “most intriguing, unsolved puzzle in modern biology” (Phillips, 1991). Why because they aren’t even alive by any stretch of the imagination. At least with a virus you can pretend-even though purified it’s a crystalline powder-it’s alive and […]

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