The Alhzheimer's Report

I remember many years ago reading a rather long article, I think, in the San Jose Mercury News or possibly in the San Francisco Chronicle about how few of the meat packing plants in this country actually get inspected by the Food and Drug Administration. What with budget cuts from the Federal Government & the unsubstantiated reports of pay-offs by the plants to the inspectors, very little of the meat we eat was actually being inspected.

This, at least the budget cuts, as well as less than stringent methods of testing, continues today. It's even happening in the vegetable industry. E-Coli outbreaks are now becoming rather common. But a new report out by the Alzheimer's Association states that every 72 seconds another person is diagnosed with Alzheimer's in America. (Wanna read the whole of the report?) Could our food be a major factor in this?

I'm only here to point out possibilities, or, maybe, to state the obvious, as it were. I wonder why our government & beef industry go to such lengths to tell us that there is no mad cow in the US. The only reports of possible mad cow in the US claims that the infected beef came from where? Canada. Yet other countries, Japan for one, claims that beef from the US has been tainted. Is it possible that we're being lied to?

So, is there a connection between mad cow & Alzheimer's? Some would say so. They even have a great deal of data to back up their assertions. I think we're doomed. And one can't even swear off meat to escape a painful death at the hands of rich Americans either.

I really need to find a way out before I go completely wacky -- or die trying.