Salmonela, mad cow, etc

[Anonymous]

With all this meat/dairy/egg related illnesses anyone considering trying a plant based diet? DH is reading "The China Study" and is getting into the idea of going vegan. Anyone else consider giving it a try?

[Anonymous]

You can get salmonella from plants just as easily as you can get it from eggs -- in fact the last half-dozen salmonella outbreaks have been from spinach, peanut butter and other vegetables and legumes. So I wouldn't have a false sense of security from a vegan diet. I also don't see where there is "all this mad cow disease." There have been no outbreaks or epidemics of mad cow disease that I know of.

Eating a vegan diet is extremely rigorous. My hat is off to you if you can make it work and maintain nutritional standards, as well as a social life.

[Anonymous]

Even vegans could catch the prions that cause CJD (mad cow). The reason being that when cows with prions are destroyed, they are not burned at a temperature high enough to kill the prions. So, they go up in the smoke and ashes from the burning cow and travel in the winds and settle on vegetation.

If you want assurances, you wont get any. If you have the disease, research Miracle Mineral Supplement. It will neutralize prions.

[Anonymous]

It's still possible to become ill from eating fruits or veggies because they are fertilized with infected animal ingredients (manure, blood, bones, etc.).

[Anonymous]

Miracle Mineral Supplement will neutralize prions?!?!

Come on.

[Anonymous]

Don't knock it until you've researched it.

[Anonymous]

Rather than going vegan, I'm more inclined to seek out super-local food, produced by very small producers who are transparent.

[Anonymous]

OK, I have never seen so much misinformation in so few posts.

1. While it's true that you can get salmonella from vegetables, it is much more likely to be caught from meat. So a vegan diet has an advantage with several foodborne pathogens.

2. Prions aren't alive. They are proteins and you don't kill them. You denature them.

3. If there was any real chance of catching prions from ash settling on crops after carcass burning, I would looooove to see it. Given the temperatures at which proteins denature, this scenario is highly improbable. Any old fire will do.

4. I looked up Miracle Mineral Supplement. It's sold by some guy who poses with a tiger and found it while prospecting in South America. The supposed active ingredient is CLO2, which is used to bleach wood pulp to make paper. According to the author, it cures everything from emphysema to chronic dandruff. I can't find any information on how it protects you from prions, though (chuckle). I thought snake oil went away with the days of the wild west.

[Anonymous]

First, you could educate yourself about prions here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxYMS1_KCsc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FXoiif39iY

Second, every Project Camelot video begins with a tiger scene. There are hundreds of videos about MMS, only one of which is done by Project Camelot.