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Episode 1: Raging Hormones for Fun and Profit


Experts interviewed in the TV show

ProsCons
Allison Van Eenennaam Ph.D. Cloning & BioTech Expert
"Mad cow is such a non-issue."
Elisa Odabashian, Consumer Union
"Cow remains continue to be fed to the pigs and chickens."
Michael Payne DVM, Ph.D.
"Statistically better chance of being crushed by a falling vending machines than getting mad cow disease."
Rebecca Specter, The Center for Food Safety
"Only less than 1/10 of 1% are even tested for Mad Cow."
Dean O. Cliver, Ph.D Professor of Emeritus Food Safety
"The ultimate anti-oxidant is carbon monoxide."
Christopher Kennedy Spokesman, Grass-fed cattle ranch
"Grass-fed cows cannot get Mad Cow disease..."
Christine Bruhn Director Food Science Tech. Consumer Research
"Pathogen damages your kidneys"
Steven Heilig Union of Concerned Scientist, SF Medical Society
"Mad Cow disease...so many mysteries to this particular disease."
Lee Riley, MD Professor Infectious Disease & Epidemiology
"Recalls given to kids in school...kids potentially exposed to BSE."
Tracey J. Woodruff Ph.D., MPH Director of Reproduction & the Environment
"40 % increase in testicular cancer"
Linda Giudice, MD, Ph.D. (Fertility Expert)
"Our young women seem to have an increasing rate of infertility."
Experts interviewed during Live Debates

More Information and Resources for this controversy

ABC News Contaminated Meat
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=8761728

Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
http://www.socrei.org/cgi-bin/socrei/SREaddr.pl

"Eating Beef Harms Fertility - A Cock and Bull Story?" Rebecca Goldin Ph.D. STATS: George Mason University. April 9, 2007.
http://www.stats.org/stories/2007/eating_beef_fertility_cock_apr9_07.htm

"Radioisotopes Brief: Cesium - 137 (Cs-137)." Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Last reviewed May 10, 2006
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/isotopes/cesium.asp

"Contaminants and toxins in animal feed." D'Mello, J.P.F. Scottish Agricultural College (SAC).
http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/ARTICLE/AGRIPPA/X9500E04.HTM#P11_1188

Bad Cow Disease Paul Krugman OpEd Columnist, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/opinion/13krugman.html

Erectile Dysfunction Diabetes Go Beyond a Pill NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/29/health/29patient.html

Red meat & diabetesFree Online Library

http://natamcancer.org/page22.html
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/27/9/2108.full http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Red+meat+&+diabetes-a0115077460

Big Food vs. Big Insurance NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/opinion/10pollan.html?pagewanted=1&em

American Meat Institute Foundation Statement ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=8457157

"U.S. entrepreneur tells condom experts: Size matters." Associated Press. Oct. 11, 2007. USA Today.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-10-11-condom-size_N.htm?csp=34

"USDA recalls 143 million pounds of beef."Associated Press. March 3, 2008. MSNBC.com
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23212514

"U.S. Won't Let Company Test All Its Cattle For Mad Cow." Donald G. McNeh Jr. The New York Times. April 10, 2004.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/10/us/us-won-t-let-company-test-all-its-cattle-for-mad-cow.html

"The FDA's Dangerous Cloned Beef Decision." Alec Baldwin. The Huffington Post. Jan. 17, 2008.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/the-fdas-dangerous-clone_b_81964.html

"Are We Eating Cloned Meat?" Scientific American online
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=are-we-eating-cloned-meat

"Cloned Pigs" GFP Green Fluorescent Protein: Cool Uses.
http://www.conncoll.edu/ccacad/zimmer/GFP-ww/cooluses7.html

"Review of Reproductive Hormones For Dairy Cows." John H. Kirk, DVM, MPVM. U of Cal, Davis. June 25, 1999
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/vetext/INF-DA/INF-DA_REVREPRO.HTML

"A Primer on Beef Hormones from Embassy of the United States in Stockholm Sweden." Feb. 24, 1999.
http://stockholm.usembassy.gov/Agriculture/hormone.html

"Food safety: Nebraska Beef Issues second recall." The Week. Aug. 22-29, 2008.

"No Grounds to Change Risk Assessment of Beef Hormones: EFSA" EFSA. Eubusiness.com

"Viva Viagra." Viagra Advertisement
http://www.viagra.com

"Building a Better Burger: Coming Soon from a Lab Near You: Beef without the Cow." By Susan Krugliniski.

"Health scare of the week: Red meat will kill you." The Week. Apr 10, 2009.

"Endocrine Disruption and Reproductive Outcomes in Women." Journal of San Francisco Medical Society. Jan/Feb 2008. Sarah Janssen, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Victor Y. Fujimoto, MD, and Linda C. Giudice, MD, Ph.D., MSc.

"Proceedings of the Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility: executive summary." Journal of San Francisco Medical Scciety. Jan/Feb 2008. Tracey J. Woodruff, Ph.D., M.P.H., Allison Carlson, Jackie M. Schwartz, M.P.H., and Linda C. Giudice, M.D., Ph.D.

"Mad Cow Disease: Stop the Madness: Petition the USDA covering up an epidemic." Organic Consumer Association.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow.cfm

"Your Resource for Infertility Prevention, Reproductive Health and Family Building." The American Fertility Association. 2008.
http://www.theafa.org/sexhealth/preventable.html

"Locating Prion Researchers" Prion Disease News. Dr. Michael Greger. Apr 17, 2001.
http://www.mad-cow.org/researchers.html#Web

"Test Tube Meat Nears Dinner Table." Lakshmi Sandhana. Wired. June 21 2006
http://www.bifsco.org/

Beef Industry Food Safety Council
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/06/71201

Britney Viagara Commercial video
http://www.spike.com/video/britney-spears/3046204

"Consumer Concerns About Hormones in Food." Prepared by Renu Gandhi, Ph.D. BCERF Research Associate ?and Suzanne M. Snedeker, Ph.D., Research Project Leader, BCERF. Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors. June 2000
http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/Factsheet/Diet/fs37.hormones.cfm

"FDA Asked to Prohibit use of Carbon Monoxide in Red Meat." ConsumerAffairs.com. February 21, 2006
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/02/fda_meat.html

"Could meat give you Alzheimer's?" Jerome Burne. The Times (London). August 10, 2004
http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/alzheimers81004.cfm

"Feed Additives for?Backgrounding Calves." Dr. Chip Poland and Dr. Karl Hoppe. NDSU. July 1999
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/ansci/beef/as1177w.htm

"Meat, Dairy Producers Offer to Track Cloned Livestock." Associated press. FoxNews.com. December 21, 2007
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317908,00.html

"Modern Meat: Is Your Meat Safe? Antibiotic Debate Overview." Frontline.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/safe/overview.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/etc/video.html

"Michael Pollan on beef industry, hormones, antibiotic." Fresh Air. April 3, 2002
http://www.math.uic.edu/%7Etakata/some_articles/FreshAir_Michael_Pollon_on_beef_industry,_hormones,_antibiotics.html

"Drug companies bypass doctors, push over-the-counter Viagra with in-store consultation." David Gutierrez. NaturalNews.com. February 22, 2007
http://www.naturalnews.com/021636.html

"Food for Thought: Troubling Meaty 'Estrogen'." Science News Online, October 20, 2007
http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/realityzone/UFNmeatyestrogen.htm

Hillshire Farm “Go Meat” website.
http://www.gomeat.com/

"Processed meat consumption results in 67% increase in pancreatic cancer risk, says new research." Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. NaturalNews. April 20, 2005
http://www.naturalnews.com/007024.html

"Shocking New Evidence Shows Mad Cow Disease Prions Can Be Harbored In Humans For Decades Without Symptoms." Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews. August 06, 2004
http://www.naturalnews.com/001672.html

"US Kids to Feed on Irradiated Meats." Alive.
http://www.alive.com/5456a16a2.php?subject_bread_cramb=175

"Viagra Now Being Increasingly Used as a Recreational Drug By Younger Men: Is Pfizer Responsible?" Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. NaturalNews. August 06, 2004
http://www.naturalnews.com/001668.html

"Viagra use causes infertility, says study; statins interfere with sex hormones." Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. NaturalNews. May 18, 2004
http://www.naturalnews.com/001068.html

"National Cattlemen's Beef Association website" Science News Online, October 20, 2007
http://www.beef.org/

"The Use of Drugs in Food Animals: Benefits and Risks." James R. Coffman and George W. Beran. The National Academic Press. 1999
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5137&page=235

"Trenbolone." MedLibrary.org.
http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Trenbolone

"Grass-Fed for the Greater Good: Cattle ranchers like David Evans mix activism with entrepreneurialism. But can they amass a following?" Julian Guthrie. SF Gate. February 8, 2004
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/08/CMGOR4NLQN3.DTL

"Burger King's hilarious new ad campaign. Stick around for the last scene." Dave D. May 2, 2006
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1686985

"WHAT ARE NITRATES & NITRITES?" Seek Answers
http://www.applegatefarms.com/resources/nitrates_and_nitrites.aspx#Nitrates%20%28NO3

"Radioisotope Brief: Cesium-137 (Cs-137)." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. August 18, 2004
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/isotopes/cesium.asp

"Fertility of transgenic female mice expressing bovine growth hormone or human growth hormone variant genes" EM Naar, A Bartke, SS Majumdar, FC Buonomo, JS Yun and TE Wagner. Biology of Reproduction.
http://www.biolreprod.org/cgi/content/abstract/45/1/178

Are We Alone? Science radio for thinking species
http://radio.seti.org/episodes

"USDA recalls 143 million pounds of beef: Undercover video caught abuse of sick animals at S. Calif. slaughterhouse." Associated Press. MSNBC.com. March. 3, 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23212514

"Modern Meat." Doug Hamilton, TV show / special
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/zforum/02/tv_frontline041902.htm

"Wendy's TV commercials"
http://www.wendys.com/ads/

"Why Recall Two-Year-Old Ground Beef? Surely we ate it already!" Chris Wilson. Slate. February 19, 2008
http://www.slate.com/id/2184701/?GT1=10935

"Are We Eating Cloned Meat? The FDA approved cloned meat as safe for consumption. Has any hit the grocery store shelves yet?" EarthTalk. Scientific America. September 9, 2008
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-we-eating-cloned-meat

"Burger King Makes Flame Broiled Cologne." Geekologie. December 19 2008
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/12/burger_king_makes_flame_broile.php

YouTube "I am Cow" i am cow hear me moo i weigh twice as much as you...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVoBPnTWAUI

"Viagra may protect heart against damage, study finds." CTV.ca. Jan. 5 2009
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090105/viagra_heart_090105/20090105?hub=Health

"Free-Range Trichinosis." James E. McWilliams. The New York Times. April 9, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/opinion/10mcwilliams.html?em

"Eating Too Much Red Meat May Shorten Life: Major Study Finds an Effect, but Critics Say Meat Offers Important Nutrients." Amanda Gardner. HealthDay. ABC News. March 23 2009
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/Healthday/story?id=7153072&page=1

ELDON ROTH, CEO of Beef Products Inc in Sioux City Neb
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103656_2.html?sid=ST2008061200002

Michael Pollan Live Chat About Sustainable Agriculture (Video) TakePart Social Action Network
http://www.takepart.com/blog/2009/10/15/michael-pollan-live-chat-about-sustainable-agriculture-video/

American Meat Institute Foundation Statement ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=8457157

Harvard Health Publications HEALTHbeat@hms.harvard.edu 8-25-09

"Living Near Fast Food Ups Stroke Risk: Those Living in Areas With Many Fast Food Restaurants May Have a Higher Stroke Risk." DAN CHILDS and JOANNA SCHAFFHAUSEN. ABC News. February 19, 2009
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/story?id=6914363&page=1

"The Growing Case Against Red Meat." Tiffany Sharples. Time. Mar. 23, 2009
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1887266-2,00.html

Warner Brothers Company Info.
http://www.warnerbros.com/?page=company-info/

Night of the Living Dead - Remake (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma4naRmV7g0

YouTube - Night of The Living Dead Remastered (1968)
(no longer available)

Irradiation labeling
http://www.consumersunion.org/pub/core_food_safety/004680.html

Agric Sec Tom Vilsack at USDA video re: new know your farmer program
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tms8ye8mw_k&feature=player_embedded

Episode 2: Great Balls of Fire: The Federal Reserve and Banking in America


Experts interviewed in the TV show

ProsCons
Ellen Brown
Attorney & Author of Web of Debt and head of Public Banking Initiative
Robert Murphy
Author of the Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, Pacific Research Institute
Michelle Chan
Cap & Trade Expert; Testified in front of Congress on Cap&Trade as another Derivative Scheme
G Edward Griffin
Author of The Creature from Jekyll Island
Mark WIlliams
Author of Uncontrolled Risk, Boston University Professor of Economics
Camice Revier
Former Countrywide Mortgage Broker
Josh Kosman
LBO (Leveraged Buyout) expert; author of The BuyOut of America
Darrell Duffie
Distinguished Professor of Finance, Stanford University
Joseph Tibman
Author of the Murder of Lehman Brothers
 
Experts interviewed during Live Debates

More Information and Resources for this controversy