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In his book, </I><I><B>Mad Cowboy</B></I><I>, Howard Lyman writes that on the day of the show, Oprah told him privately that she had seen the movie Babe several times and that she would never eat pork again. During the show, she appeared to give up beef.  After the show, Howard told Oprah, "Give me five minutes and I will have you off chicken."  Here is what he may have told her during that five minutes...Howard Lyman on eating chicken from his book, </I><I><B>Mad Cowboy</B></I><I>...Regards, Jim Hicks</I></div> <bR> <div> Some people, who avoid red meat but still eat fish and poultry, refer to themselves as semi-vegetarians.  Unfortunately for them, chicken and fish are not plants, and they are not health foods.  Substituting chicken and fish for red meat will not save you from heart disease, strokes, diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, or osteoporosis.  Chicken and fish will in fact contribute to the danger of developing those conditions.  They present the exact same threats to our well-being as red meat:  they are high in fat, high in cholesterol, too high in protein, high in pesticide residue, and devoid of fiber and complex carbohydrates.  </div> <bR> <div> <I>Here is what Howard would've told Oprah about chicken. </I> More than 90% of chickens are raised in factory farms where they typically dine very cheaply--on their own fecal material.  It is not surprising, therefore, that a recent Agriculture Department study revealed that more than 99% of broiler carcasses had detectable levels of E. coli.  In addition, approximately 30% of chicken consumed in America is contaminated with salmonella, and 70 to 90 percent with another deadly pathogen, campylobacter.  While it doesn't share the notoriety of salmonella (probably because it's more difficult to pronounce and spell), it causes 200-800 deaths per year, as well as two to eight million cases a year of sickness.</div> <bR> <div> Slaughterhouses are efficient factories for spreading pathogens from one chicken to the next. According to the independent Government Accountability Project, up to 25% of chickens on the inspection line are covered with feces, bile, and feed.  Also, chickens are often soaked in chlorine baths to remove slime and odor.  You will be reassured to know that, in order to protect your health, individual chicken inspectors examine about 12,000 chickens a day, each for about two seconds.  In spite of those two-second inspections, contaminated chickens still manage to kill at least one thousand  Americans a year, and estimates of how many they sicken range as high as 80 million. </div> <bR> <div> <I>So if you still think eatin' chicken is good for you, take a look at what Dr. John McDougall has to say about America's favorite fowl in his March 2006 article entitled </I><I>How Foul is Fowl?</I></div> <bR> <div> Chicken and turkey are called “white meats,” as in “clean white meat,” and are considered to be health foods. The truth is fowl are filthy with a multitude of disease-causing ingredients. The horrible threat of a <I>bird flu pandemic</I> may cause health-conscious people to examine more closely the facts behind this traditional meal centerpiece—and we may see something like how mad cow disease, with all the emotions it aroused, caused people to rethink beef. Even though to date only a handful of people have died from either of these animal-borne infections, the fear of these two diseases could save millions of lives as people refrain from eating the more ordinary, but very lethal, parts of an animal’s tissues.</div> <bR> <div> Birds as food have traditionally been considered a delicacy—a fare reserved for holidays, like Thanksgiving, or as a treat for Sunday’s dinner. Today’s practice of “making every day a feast day” has caused the worldwide epidemic of <I>malnutrition from overnutrition</I>—now the most important killer of all. Too many calories, and too much fat and protein, mean disease—like obesity, heart attacks, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, and much more suffering.</div> <bR> <div> The fat and protein content of a bird depends in large part upon its diet and activity level. (Heard that one before?) Wild birds are generally much leaner, and therefore, lower in fat and higher in protein. <I>Meat breeds</I> are chickens developed for their quick growth—heavy with fat and muscle—they are mass produced specifically to be eaten. The fat and cholesterol in fowl permeate its flesh; they cannot be cut away.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Links to the websites of Howard Lyman and Dr. John McDougall</div> <div> can be found in the BOOKS section of Harmony Earth.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <B>Eating for Health and Ecology on Planet Earth</B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>