Comments on: Mad Cow Memories

By: M. Simon

M. Simon — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 02:39:42 +0000

Anthony,

You are forgetting one of the most important properties of meat:

Properly prepared it tastes really great.

People
Eat
Tasty
Animals

By: M. Simon

M. Simon — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 02:37:41 +0000

B. Lutz at the Max Plank Institute has foud out some interesting things about pain memories in mice:

The decay rate of the memories is genetically controlled.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 00:56:49 +0000

I have been reading in the news lately that meat is safe? Hunh????

Meat is safe? That’s a good joke! Meat promotes health? That is an advertisement from industry or from Dr. Atkins (and other quacks) who promoted a terrible diet by selling books and products to the gullible. If you think animal products are safe, consider the following:

What animal products do to people:

Promote–

Cancer

Heart attacks

High blood pressure

High cholesterol

Strokes

Arthritis

Bursitis

Osteoporosis

Flu

Obesity

E-coli

Mad Cow (CJD in humans)

Salmonella

Allergies

Acid Reflux

Cellulite

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Diabetes

Headaches

Graves Disease

Cirrhosis

Diarrhea

Anemia

Insomnia

Dementia and other mental problems

Emotional problems

Increase costs related to medical care

Increase taxes to aid poor people who come down with medical problems

What animal products do to the environment:

Use up massive supplies of fresh water. (ex. 5000 gallons to make one pound of beef). Lake Ogallala, an underground reservoir larger than Huron that took millions of years to form shall be dry in 2 to 3 generations in order to irrigate crops to feed to live stock.

Use up massive amounts of land to grow grain. (80% of the grain grown is fed to livestock)

Manure pollutes the land and the water with nitrates and pesticides with other poisons. (livestock in the US outweighs people by 5 to 1)

Pollution from nitrates kills off other wildlife that keeps the Earth in balance.

Clear cutting of rainforests in order to graze cattle.

Stripping away of top soil so that neither grains nor trees can grow in some areas.

Using up energy including fossil fuels in order to transport and refrigerate animal products.

Neither list is by any means complete!

By: Chevalier

Chevalier — Mon, 29 Dec 2003 04:58:55 +0000

OT: You’ve posted earlier that ‘Soul made flesh’ wouldn’t be published untill January 6th. I’ve picked up my copy at a Barner and Noble a few days ago. Fascinating stuff so far.

By: Richard Glen Boire

Richard Glen Boire — Wed, 24 Dec 2003 18:04:15 +0000

Stock in McDonalds falls, as Memory Pharmaceuticals (Eric Kandel’s co.) files to go public. Initial value = $85 million!

http://www.forbes.com/personalfinance/retirement/newswire/2003/12/23/rtr1190424.html