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Mad Cow Disease



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          "MAD COW" DISEASE PREDICTED IN 1923
          BY GERMAN SCIENTIST, RUDOLF STEINER,
          FOUNDER OF BIODYNAMIC AGRICULTURE

          An excerpt from a lecture by
          Dr. Rudolf Steiner, PhD (Natural Science)
          January 13, 1923
          Dornach, Switzerland

From: HEALTH AND ILLNESS, by Rudolf Steiner, The Anthroposophic
Press, 1983; pp. 82 - 85

     What is the "objective view," however, regarding eating plants
and eating meat? Consider the plant. A plant manages to develop the
seed that is planted in the earth all the way to green leaves and
colorful flower petals. Now, you either receive your nourishment
directly from grains, or you pluck a cabbage and make soup or
something. Compare what you get from the plant with what is present
in meat, usually an animal's muscle. Meat is a completely different
substance from the plant. What is the relationship between these
two substances?
     You know that there are some animals that are simply gentle
vegetarian beings. There are animals that do not eat meat. Cows,
for example, eat no meat. Neither are horses keen on meat; they
also eat only plants. Now, you must be clear that an animal not
only absorbs food but is also constantly shedding what is inside
its body. Among birds you know that there is something called
molting. The birds lose their feathers and must replace them with
new ones. You know that deer drop their antlers. You cut your
nails, and they grow back. What appears outwardly so visible here
is part of a continuous process. We constantly shed our skins. I
have explained this to you once before. During a period of
approximately seven to eight years, our entire bodies are shed and
replaced with new ones. This is also the case with an animal.
     Consider a cow or an ox. After some years the flesh within it
has been entirely replaced. With oxen the exchange takes place even
faster than with human beings. A new flesh is therefore made. From
what did this flesh originate, however? You must ask yourself this.
The ox itself has produced the flesh of its body from plant
substances. This is the most important point to consider. This
animal's body is therefore capable of producing meat from plants.
Now, you can cook cabbage as long as you like, but you won't turn
it into meat! You do not produce meat in your frying pan or your
stew pot, and nobody ever baked a cake that became meat. This
cannot be done with outer skills, but, taken fundamentally, the
animal's body can accomplish inwardly what one can't do outwardly.
Flesh is produced in the animal's body, and to do this forces must
first be present in the body. With all our technological forces, we
have none by which we can simply produce meat from plants. We don't
have that, but in our bodies and in animal bodies there are forces
that can make meat substance from plant substance....
     Now imagine that an ox suddenly decided that it was too
tiresome to graze and nibble plants, that it would let another
animal eat them and do the work for it, and then it would eat the
animal. In other words, the ox would begin to eat meat, though it
could produce the meat by itself. It has the inner forces to do so.
What would happen if the ox were to eat meat directly instead of
plants? It would leave all the forces unused that can produce the
flesh in him. Think of the tremendous amount of energy that is lost
when the machines in a factory in which something or other is
manufactured are all turned on without producing anything. There is
a tremendous loss of energy. But the unused energy in the ox's body
cannot simply be lost, so the ox is finally filled with it, and
this pent-up force does something in him other than produce flesh
>from  plant substances. It does something else in him. After all,
the energy remains; it is present in the animal, and so it produces
waste products. Instead of flesh, harmful substances are produced.
Therefore, if an ox were suddenly turn into a meat eater, it would
fill itself with all kinds of harmful substances such as uric acid
and urates.
     Now urates have their specific effects. The specific effects
of urates are expressed in a particular affinity for the nervous
system and the brain. The result is that if an ox were to consume
meat directly, large amounts of urates would be secreted; they
would enter the brain, and the ox would go crazy. If an experiment
could be made in which a herd of oxen were suddenly fed with
pigeons, it would produce a completely mad herd of oxen. That is
what would happen. In spite of the gentleness of the pigeons, the
oxen would go mad.

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