Alan Lewis wrote:

Martin Finne.
...english cow disease is caused by proteins.

There is no such bovine illness called English Cow disease It is called
BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.  Britain has stamped down hard on
this illness  shame Europe isn't doing the same:)

Dear Listmembers,

I have explored BSE and Downer Cow syndrome (the equivalent disease in
the USA) and agree with Prussiner (this year's Nobel Prize winner for
describing the PRION which causes the disease) and Carleton Gadjusek
(who won a Nobel Prize in 1976 for describing the first human spongiform
disease--Kuru) that there is a MISSING LINK.

Quick Lesson:  The human equivalent of mad cow disease is called
Cruetzfeld-Jacob disease.  Dr. Cruetzfeld and Dr. Jacob were two men who
studied with Dr. Alzheimer in the early part of this century.  Normally,
one out of a million people get CJD, a degenerative disorder in which
the neuronal brain cells are destroyed and replaced by glial cells,
manifesting a sponge-like array by which the disease is identified.

I have been in touch with research facilities which store brains from
Alzheimer's deaths and upon re-inspection are now finding that many
clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's victims actually had CJD.

Do we get CJD from cows?  There is evidence suggesting that we do.

Up to ninety percent of the cows in America have either tuberculosis,
leukemia or immunodeficiency virus (AIDS) according to Virgil Hulse, MD,
author of Mad Cows and MilkGate.

We should not be drinking body fluids from diseased animals.

PRIONS are actually crystals which reproduce in the brain.  These
crystals have no RNA or DNA.  They reproduce by a process called
"FOLDING" in which they create a mirror image of themselves. (SEE
Scientific American, Jan. 1995).

Howard Lyman told me that 100,000 cows in America die every year from
"Downer Cow" disease, an affliction similar to Mad Cow.

There has not been an animal in America identified with the strain of
mad cow diseease so diagnosed in Britain.

Robert "NOTMILKMAN" Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com