![]() ![]() Mad Cowboy is one of the most important books of this decade. Avoid or limit your intake of vegetable oils, margarine, nuts, seeds, olives, and avocados.Eat a low percentage of your calories in the form of fat.To lose weight effectively, don't restrict your caloric intake unless you are an overeater.He skewers many of the fad diets like the Zone and instead proposes his own three basic rules: Since he has become a vegetarian, he has lost 130 pounds over an eight-year period. He observes that vegetarians generally weigh twenty pound less than their carnivore friends. One of his major thrusts in the book is what a vegetarian diet will do for its disciples. He expresses alarm at the disappearance of rain forests, land now used to farm and raise cattle. Lyman is also concerned about the chemical fertilizers and pesticides which have been dumped into the soil. He cites the statistic of 16 pounds of grain needed to produce one pound of beef. Eighty percent of the grain grown in this country is to feed animals. He details the waste of resources to grow grain for animal feed. Much of the book is devoted to the advantages of a vegan diet for individuals and for the world. He details a shocking number (8) cases of CJD diagnosed in the northeastern corner of Texas. Lyman's fear is that BSE and CJD are already on the horizon in this country. According to information presented by Lyman, the British government has finally admitted a possible link between BSE and CJD after a number of people have contracted CJD. Because of the highly infectious nature of CJD, scientists are even reluctant to research it. While this is occurring the victim becomes blind and demented and loses motor functions. The human equivalent is Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD) where the brain deteriorates, develops holes, and becomes like a sponge. Mad cow disease is a brain-wasting disease. One of the most shocking chapters of the book is titled "Mad Cows and Bureaucrats." In it he details how bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease was detected in Britain because scrapie-infected sheep were ground up and fed to cows. ![]() Lyman reveals that thirteen states have similar food disparagement laws which are a "concerted attack on First Amendment freedoms." Because of his statements, the Food and Drug Administration instituted a ban on feeding ruminant protein to other ruminants, a move to ward off mad cow disease. As Lyman points out, the burden of proof in the case rests on the shoulders of the defendants. It has stopped me cold from eating another hamburger."īecause of their statements on the show, Winfrey and Lyman were sued by a group of Texas cattlemen for making "slanderous" statements about cattle and beef in violation of the Texas Food Disparagement Act. After hearing this description on her program, Oprah declared, "Cows are herbivores. Fortunately, his co-defendant was Oprah Winfrey. Lyman's description of animal intestines, heads, hooves, horns, bones, and blood, as well as dead, diseased animals ground up, cooked, dried and then used as animal feed brought him to national attention as a defendant in a law suit. What he describes are unsavory practices to produce an abundance of meat for the American dining table. Lyman describes how he has shifted his thinking 180 degrees from his years as a dairy farmer, cattle rancher, and steak eater to his current focus as a vegan who is president of the International Vegetarian Union.Īs a cattle rancher and feedlot operator who practiced factory farming, he gained a clear picture of how meat is produced in this country. He is the only one of the group in good health, and in Mad Cowboy he attributes his physical condition to his vegetarian diet. Of the nine, who are about his age (60), four have died from complications of heart disease or emphysema, three have heart disease, one is struggling with colon cancer, and one has survived prostate cancer. When Howard Lyman traveled back to his home town in Montana, he decided to look up his poker playing buddies. MAD COWBOY Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat ![]() In this issue we present a book that has stirred up national interest as it exposes questionable practices which affect our nation's food supply. Each issue the VIP birds will endeavor to soar to the highest literary peak to peck out the most unique, informative, and accomplished book that contributes to vegetarian enlightenment. ![]()
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