Mad Cow Disease
DECEPTION

Did Jehovah's
Witnesses know
"six years before"
the general public?

"Awake! said it in 1990,"
 proclaims the headline on the back
cover of the May 8, 1997 Awake!
 magazine, which elaborates that an
Italian writer expressed
"astonishment" that Awake!
 featured an article on mad cow
disease "'six years before the
whole business was brought
before the attention of the
public worldwide.'"

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True? Or deceptive hype?
 The photo-reproduction of the 1990 article featured above the story is in Italian--why?
Perhaps because a glance at the original article in our own language reveals that Awake!
was not publishing anything new. It cited among its sources The Independent,an English
newspaper, and the British Medical Journal--both of which publicized the disease months
before the November 8, 1990 Awake! was distributed.

Other publications that brought mad cow disease to the attention of the public before
Awake! include Scientific American(May 1990, page 34), New Scientist(June 9, 1990,
pages 32-34), and US News and World Report (July 2, 1990, page 44).*

  So, then, what is truly astonishing is that the Italian writer was so ill informed as to think
that Awake! was ahead of its time--and that the Watchtower Society is so dishonest as to
feature this claim now in boasting of its own supposed foresight.

*According to "Mad Cow Disease--'Much More Serious Than AIDS'" by Michael Greger at
http://envirolink.org/arrs/AnimaLife, the online edition of AnimaLife,Spring 1994, Vol. 4, No. 2
published by AnimaLife, Willard Straight Hall, Box 39, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY 14853

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