Whistleblower - The Movie

Whistleblower is a $10 million documentary film by Jeff Bellamar about the USDA continuing to put big business interests ahead of public safety. Scheduled for April 2006 release.

(PRWEB) December 28, 2005 -- Factory farms in the U.S. are now banned from feeding cows the remains of dead animals. However, a loophole in that ban allows cows to consume the blood from other killed animals yet pigs, pets and poultry are entirely exempt from the ban. Europe incinerates "rendered" animal remains, considering the remains to be toxic waste. In the US, it's cheap feed for the livestock.

Farm animals raised for food are also fed the excrement and blood from killed animals from slaughterhouses - or "rendering plants". Each year more than 1 million tons of animal excrement are fed back to livestock and into your "food supply".

"You are what you eat?"

These practices are banned in nearly every industrialized country except the United States.

The effects, according to "unbiased" medical research, is that there are more cases of Mad Cow (BSE) than are being diagnosed. The best science available today (which is research not funded by a meat or vegan group) says up to 14% of Alzheimer's deaths are actually attributed to BSE. As of June 2005, France tests more cows in one week than the USA has tested in 15 years. Of further concern is that BSE incubates itself - much like the AIDS virus.

There has only been one documented case of BSE in the United States and this seems highly suspect considering cows are all fed from the same food source - afterall, they do not have their own individual TV dinners at suppertime. If you don't look for BSE, you won't find BSE. Rendering plants are required to have procedures in-place for testing but there's no independent oversight to ensure procedures are carried out. In fact, one company, Creekstone Farms, wanted to test 100% of their cattle as Japan does and the FDA forbade such a policy.

Our research and sources for this film will stand up to any scrutiny. One such source is Michael Greger M.D. from Columbia University - a key witness for Oprah Winfrey in her 1996 "beef defamation" trial which ultimately led to her exoneration. Dr. Greger has debated the USDA & FDA and recently spoke about this topic at a highly-regarded lecture at MIT.

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