"Since Crohn's disease was first recognized in the early part of the twentieth century, it has been theorized that the disease is caused by a bacterial infection, with the principal suspect being mycobacteria, and more specifically in recent times, Mycobacterium paratuberculosis. Recently, research is making advances in understanding this organism, and is indicating more and more that at least some cases of Crohn's disease, if not all, are caused by paratuberculosis infection. Most importantly, the majority of Crohn's patients treated with antibiotic treatment which has activity against Mycobacterium paratuberculosis go into clinical remission.

This is important information for sufferers of Crohn's disease, because Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is endemic in foods derived from cattle in most areas of the western world. Mycobacterium paratuberculosis causes a chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease in cattle, and many other species, which is similar to Crohn's disease. In some countries, the percentage of cattle herds infected with Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is extremely high. In the United States, 40% of large dairy herds are infected with Mycobacterium paratuberculosis.

Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is present in the milk, faeces and meat of infected cattle. There is a large body of evidence which indicates that Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is not killed by the standard food processing techniques that we rely on to protect us from disease-causing bacteria, such as pasteurization and cooking. Mycobacterium paratuberculosis may also be present in water supplies in areas where the faeces of infected cattle wash into the water supply, and standard water treatment methods do not kill it.

Up to now, the beef and dairy industries have preferred to defer action on removing Mycobacterium paratuberculosis from herds of food animals until it is proven that Mycobacterium paratuberculosis causes disease in humans. That proof has now arrived. In February 1998, a paper was published in the British Medical Journal which documented the first proven case of M. paratuberculosis causing disease in a human being. The patient, a seven year old boy, developed a M. paratuberculosis infection in the lymph nodes of his neck. This was followed, after a five year incubation period, by an intestinal disease that was indistinguishable from Crohn's disease. See Mycobacterium paratuberculosis Cervical Lymphadenitis followed five years later by terminal ileitis similar to Crohn's Disease for more details."

(from http://alan.kennedy.name/crohns/welcome.htm)

So, you see, the answer to Crohn's, in most cases, is proven and profoundly obvious.  M. Paratuberculosis is a killer and it is found in beef flesh and dairy products.  And the world needs to know.  STOP eating MEAT and STOP eating DAIRY.

By the way...Mad Cow Disease - does the USDA care?  Forget about it.

The USDA would only check about 23,000 out of 32 MILLION cattle slaughtered and eaten every year for mad cow disease...because they KNOW it is common in US cattle.  It is so common, the USDA announced about a year ago that it is REDUCING the number of cattle tested yearly by NINETY PERCENT to something like 2,300.  Reducing the number of cattle tested to a fly-speck in number  (less than 1/10th of 1%) tells the story, loud and clear.

And then there are the two US slaughterhouses which each built on-premises labs so they could test EACH cow processed for mad cow disease.  It's the LAW in Japan, by the way.   In both cases, the USDA essentially said, "Try it and you're out of business" and blocked them from testing their cattle.

In fact, the Bush administration is now fighting to PREVENT the testing for mad cow disease in the U.S.  Don't believe it?  Read on...

http://donklephant.com/2007/05/31/dont-test-all-cows-for-mad-cow-disease/

Americans are being sacrificed...murdered...to protect the beef and dairy industries.   

Crohn's, IBS and colitis is caused by MAP in beef flesh and in dairy products.  End of story.  

www.notmilk.com

www.madcowboy.com

www.nomilk.com

www.meatstinks.com

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Note from Lucretia:  Got glyconutrients to boost your immune system so that your immune system is better able to fight the infection?  Remember it the environment around the cells that count...as Louis Pasteur said... "It is not the germ, it is the condition of the host".  What did you "fuel" your body up with today to be sure the 2 billion new cells you created has all their essential parts to function to their optimum.  Remember cells in your liver or heart or whatever that are poorly build result in a gland or organ that is not going to function as well...

Another reason to not eat red meat... I have a new associate whose mother died of Mad Cow disease... her doctor was 100% sure of it yet was forced to write Alzheimer's on her death certificate.  She has no doubt her mother picked it up from eating red meat.  We are not being told by our FDA or our government or our media of this connection.  WHY???  Who is the media beholden too?  Big corporations and the government or the people???  I thought we had a free press...No?  So this is just another reason to seriously consider if you still want to risk your mental and physical health when you eat cow meat...  it is a dice throw given that less than .0001 of the cattle are even allowed to be tested!

~~Lucretia