His lone fight against some giants of industrial agriculture
(chemical manufacturers and cattle growers)
The Montana rancher Howard Lyman first came to world attention in 1998. He and Ophra Winfrey had been sued by Texas cattlemen and feedlot operators because Lyman had said, on the Ophra show, that mad cow disease might already be in the US. Since Lyman’s warning the first case of mad cow disease has been confirmed in the US. In Part TWO Lyman says we are till feeding cows to cows and test less than 1% of slaughtered cows while Japan is testing every cow.
In Part ONE Lyman explains what chemical agriculture did to his farm, his family and himself, and what gave him the strength to keep up the fight against mad cow disease that is only now beginning to surface to a larger public.
After selling the majority of his farm Howard Lyman became an organizer with the Montana Farmer’s Union. In 1995 he formed the organization he now works for: Voice for a Viable Future. He is the author of Mad Cowboy.
He was recorded at the 22nd National Pesticide Forum in April of 2004 in Berkeley.
Breaking NEWS: The Organic Consumers Association is beginning a Mad Cow campaign NOW.
OCA Organizing Mad Cow House Parties Across the U.S. this Spring. Check their web site at;
http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/dvd.htm
For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part ONE click HERE
For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part TWO click HERE
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