Howard Lyman has brought the issue of the dangers of eating beef to light like never before. A former cattle rancher-turned-vegetarian and food safety activist, in 1996 Lyman revealed to a national television audience how the cattle industry potentially exposed Americans to "Mad Cow" disease by feeding cows the remains of animals - including other cows. As a result of his remarks, Lyman was named a co-defendant with Oprah Winfrey in the infamous libel case brought by Texas cattlemen.
What we're looking at right now is we're following exactly the same path that they followed in England. Ten years of dealing with it as public relations rather than doing something substantial about it. 100,000 cows per year in the United States are fine at night, dead in the morning. The majority of those cows are rounded up, ground up, fed back to other cows. If only one of them has Mad Cow Disease, has the potential to effect thousands. Remember today, the United States, 14% of all cows by volume are ground up, turned into feed, and fed back to other animals.
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