Sludge Watch ==> Mad Cow Class Action Against Canadian Fed Gov't now Authorized by Judge

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin:

The Federal Government continues to allow land application of paunch manure 
and rendering plant sludges from facilities that take specified risk 
material (SRM...the name given to the brain, spinal chord, eyes, ileum, 
etc...the parts of the cattle that are high risk bse materials).

The US and Canadian BSE programs are more sizzle than steak.
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Date: June 17, 2007

Mad Cow Class Action Against Canadian Federal Government Obtains Green Light 
from
Quebec Court


MONTREAL, June 17 /CNW/ - In a landmark decision released late Friday,
June 15, 2007 Quebec Superior Court Justice Richard Wagner granted
authorization to a billion dollar class action suit, ruling that the mad cow
class action on behalf of some 20,000 Quebec cattle farmers against the
Federal Government will proceed to trial. This is an important step in
obtaining compensation for farmers following Canada's mad cow scandal
involving over 100,000 Canadian cattle farmers, including Quebec's
20,000 cattle farmers.
In April 2005, class action claims were filed cooperatively by a team of
lawyers in the courts of Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta on behalf
of all commercial farmers of cattle resident in Canada as of May 20, 2003
(the
date at which Canada's International cattle and beef exports were frozen).
The
claims allege that negligence on the part of the Federal Government caused
the
BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) crisis in Canada and the
corresponding
loss of income to Canadian cattle producers. The statements of claim may be
viewed at www.bseclassaction.ca
The class action lawsuits allege that the BSE crisis, the closing of the
U.S. and other international borders to Canadian cattle and beef, and the
loss
of billions of dollars by the Canadian cattle industry were the result of
gross incompetence on the part of the Canadian government. Statistics Canada
confirmed in May of this year that Canadian cattle producers have lost more
than $9B in cash receipts since the BSE crisis began in May of 2003, an
amount
which has been growing daily. To view this report, please visit
www.bseclassaction.ca
Quebec Attorney Gilles Gareau and Ontario's Cameron Pallett, co-counsel
in the Quebec action commented, "We applaud this decision as an important
milestone for all of Quebec's and Canada's cattle producers. We are
confident
it will lead to eventual redress for hard-working farmers who have suffered
extensive damage and whose livelihoods have been compromised. It is a view
held by many experts that the BSE crisis would never have happened if the
Federal Government had not been asleep at the wheel. We would recommend that
all potential members of the class retain their financial records going as
far
back as possible, as these records may be critical in determining the
financial damages they are entitled to recover.
According to documents filed in Quebec Court, government officials
jeopardized the safety of the Canadian food supply in failing to inform the
public that they had allowed 80 British cattle that were supposed to be in a
'monitoring program', to enter the human and animal food chain in Canada.
These same government officials' own risk analysis indicated that there was
a
95% chance that 6 or more of these animals had BSE."
Although findings of liability against the Federal Government remain to
be made at trial, Mr. Gareau and his colleagues from across the country find
this a tremendous development for all Canadian cattle producers and urge
them
to visit the BSE class action website to register and for more information
www.bseclassaction.ca

ABOUT CANADA'S BSE SCANDAL
--------------------------
BSE is an incurable neurological disease of cattle that is transmitted
when healthy cattle eat the remains of infected cattle or other ruminants.
The
claim alleges that the federal government was negligent in enacting, or
failing to enact in a timely fashion, regulations with respect to
permissible
ingredients in cattle feed. It is also alleged that the federal government
negligently allowed more than 80 British cattle to enter the human and
animal
food chain, and failed to warn cattle producers of the dangers posed by this
release of BSE into the cattle food chain when the government realized what
they had done.


For further information: please contact the following attorneys who will
be available to comment Sunday and Monday: Québec, Me Gilles Gareau, Adams
Gareau, Telephone: (514) 848-9363, Cell: (514) 966-7555,
gareaug at adamsgareau.com; Ontario, Cameron Pallett, Barrister & Solicitor,
Telephone: (416) 923-1776, Cell: (416) 473-0460, cpallett at leggeandlegge.com;
Saskatchewan, Reynold Robertson, Robertson Stromberg Pedersen LLP,
Telephone:
(306) 933-1348, Cell: (306) 230-9980, r.robertson at thinkrsplaw.com; Alberta,
Clint Docken, Q.C., Docken & Company, Telephone: (403) 269-7656, Cell: (403)
619-3612, cgd at docken.com

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2007/17/c5678.html



USA MAD COW STRAIN MORE VIRULENT TO HUMANS THAN UK STRAIN

18 January 2007 - Draft minutes of the SEAC 95 meeting (426 KB) held on 7
December 2006 are now available.


snip...



64. A member noted that at the recent Neuroprion meeting, a study was
presented showing that in transgenic mice BSE passaged in sheep may be more
virulent and infectious to a wider range of species than bovine derived BSE.

Other work presented suggested that BSE and bovine amyloidotic spongiform
encephalopathy (BASE) MAY BE RELATED. A mutation had been identified in the
prion protein gene in an AMERICAN BASE CASE THAT WAS SIMILAR IN NATURE TO A
MUTATION FOUND IN CASES OF SPORADIC CJD.


snip...



http://www.seac.gov.uk/minutes/95.pdf




3:30 Transmission of the Italian Atypical BSE (BASE) in Humanized Mouse

Models Qingzhong Kong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pathology, Case Western
Reserve
University

Bovine Amyloid Spongiform Encephalopathy (BASE) is an atypical BSE strain
discovered recently in Italy, and similar or different atypical BSE cases
were also reported in other countries. The infectivity and phenotypes of
these atypical BSE strains in humans are unknown. In collaboration with
Pierluigi Gambetti, as well as Maria Caramelli and her co-workers, we have
inoculated transgenic mice expressing human prion protein with brain
homogenates from BASE or BSE infected cattle. Our data shows that about half
of the BASE-inoculated mice became infected with an average incubation time
of about 19 months; in contrast, none of the BSE-inoculated mice appear to
be infected after more than 2 years.

***These results indicate that BASE is transmissible to humans and suggest
that BASE is more virulent than
classical BSE in humans.***


6:30 Close of Day One


http://www.healthtech.com/2007/tse/day1.asp




SEE STEADY INCREASE IN SPORADIC CJD IN THE USA FROM
1997 TO 2006. SPORADIC CJD CASES TRIPLED, with phenotype
of 'UNKNOWN' strain growing. ...


http://www.cjdsurveillance.com/resources-casereport.html



There is a growing number of human CJD cases, and they were presented last
week in San Francisco by Luigi Gambatti(?) from his CJD surveillance
collection.

He estimates that it may be up to 14 or 15 persons which display selectively
SPRPSC and practically no detected RPRPSC proteins.


http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/transcripts/1006-4240t1.htm


http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/transcripts/2006-4240t1.pdf


USDA VOLUNTARY MAD COW TAINTED FOOD RECALL ''DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'' POLICY


AS ONE LEGISLATOR THAT MOU SHOULD BE TERMINATED IMMEDIATELY

IT IS A FRONT TO THE PUBLIC

THAT YOU WOULD ON YOUR OWN ACCORD, IN THAT KIND OF SECRECY, AND CALL THAT
GOVERNMENT

THAT'S NOT WHAT WERE HERE FOR, WERE HERE FOR TRANSPARENCY, WERE NOT HERE TO
DO SECRET DEALS,

''WERE NOT THE CIA'' !!!

THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO GET TO THE GOAL OF REACHING THE CONSUMER WITHOUT
DEALING WITH USDA THAT FINDS IT UNACCEPTABLE TO SHARE INFORMATION WITH THE
PUBLIC



http://maddeer.org/video/embedded/02snip.rpm



STANLEY PRUSINER NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER ON THE PRION SLAMS USDA ON BSE

US AG SEC AND LAYCRAFT

"nothing ELSE matters, except beef from canada under 30 months bones beef
product, that's ALL THAT MATTERS!"


STAN THE MAN

question for stan ;

is this a demonstrated threat to public health safety ?

stan states ;

yes i think they (prions) are bad to eat, and you can die from them.


http://maddeer.org/video/embedded/08snip.ram



THE LINKs YOU JUST WATCHED WAS OF THE FOLLOWING HEARING ON THE WASHINGTON
MAD COW and what little ramifications there after, and to this day, nothing
has changed much, except more secrecy. ...TSS



022404 Senate Info-Hearing Agriculture / Water Resources / Health and Human
Services / Government Oversight: Mad Cow Disease


Entire 5 hour hearing - The California Channel

(scroll down to "022404 Senate Info-Hearing")

http://www.calchannel.com/february2004.htm



Sporadic creutzfeldt-jakob disease in two adolescents

http://jnnp.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/jnnp.2006.104570v1


FULL TEXT SPORADIC CJD, THE BIG LIE


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=25276


Diagnosis and Reporting of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Singeltary, Sr et al. JAMA.2001; 285: 733-734.

http://jama.ama-assn.org/http://www.neurology.org/cgi/eletters/60/2/176#535

BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL


BMJ


vCJD in the USA * BSE in U.S.
15 November 1999


http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/319/7220/1312/b#5406


BMJ


U.S. Scientist should be concerned with a CJD epidemic in the U.S., as
well...
2 January 2000


http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/320/7226/8/b#6117

JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

MARCH 26, 2003

RE-Monitoring the occurrence of emerging forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob

disease in the United States

Email Terry S. Singeltary:

flounder at wt.net

I lost my mother to hvCJD (Heidenhain Variant CJD). I would like to

comment on the CDC's attempts to monitor the occurrence of emerging

forms of CJD. Asante, Collinge et al [1] have reported that BSE

transmission to the 129-methionine genotype can lead to an alternate

phenotype that is indistinguishable from type 2 PrPSc, the commonest

sporadic CJD. However, CJD and all human TSEs are not reportable

nationally. CJD and all human TSEs must be made reportable in every

state and internationally. I hope that the CDC does not continue to

expect us to still believe that the 85%+ of all CJD cases which are

sporadic are all spontaneous, without route/source. We have many TSEs in

the USA in both animal and man. CWD in deer/elk is spreading rapidly and

CWD does transmit to mink, ferret, cattle, and squirrel monkey by

intracerebral inoculation. With the known incubation periods in other

TSEs, oral transmission studies of CWD may take much longer. Every

victim/family of CJD/TSEs should be asked about route and source of this

agent. To prolong this will only spread the agent and needlessly expose

others. In light of the findings of Asante and Collinge et al, there

should be drastic measures to safeguard the medical and surgical arena

from sporadic CJDs and all human TSEs. I only ponder how many sporadic

CJDs in the USA are type 2 PrPSc?

http://www.neurology.org/cgi/eletters/60/2/176#535


doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(03)00715-1
Copyright © 2003 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Newsdesk

Tracking spongiform encephalopathies in North America

Xavier Bosch

Available online 29 July 2003.


Volume 3, Issue 8, August 2003, Page 463


“My name is Terry S Singeltary Sr, and I live in Bacliff, Texas. I lost my
mom to hvCJD (Heidenhain variant CJD)
and have been searching for answers ever since. What I have found is that we
have not been told the truth. CWD
in deer and elk is a small portion of a much bigger problem.”
............................


http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473309903007151/fulltext

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/1473-3099/PIIS1473309903007151.pdf


see history of cjd questionnaire

http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2408


TSS