NEWS
RELEASE
Release: No.01-HMD/1
Date Mailed: March 20, 2001
For Immediate Release
Contact: Contessa Morton 208/265-2575;
800/336-9266
Public Health Authority Urges Inquiry in
Foot-and-Mouth Slaughter: Raises Spectre on
Industrial Espionage
Sandpoint, ID Could the outbreak of
foot-and-mouth disease effecting global beef
markets be an act of industrial espionage
rather than nature? Could Tyson Foods
Corporation, the world's leading meat
supplier be behind the deadly slaughter?
These are serious questions being raised by
a leading American public health authority,
Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a Harvard graduate and
the author of several books on infectious
diseases.
Many Americans can recall the hoopla over
Hillary Clinton having made more than
$100,000 virtually overnight in the swine
futures market in 1998. The tip came from
James Blair, chief counselor at Tyson Foods.
The Springdale, Arkansas-based company
showered gifts for favors upon Clinton
administration officials including former
Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. Don Tyson
was one of Bill Clinton's "closest friends
and biggest supporters," according to grand
jury testimony concerning Tyson political
misconduct. Don Tyson was Bill Clinton's top
fundraiser during his gubernatorial and
presidential elections.
The grave possibility that the international
foot-and-mouth disease outbreak stems from a
Tyson plot is documented in Healing Codes
for the Biological Apocalypse (Tetrahedron
Press, 1999; ISBN: 0-923550-01-1) in which
Dr. Horowitz explored little known facts
about "mad cow disease" outbreaks.
Suggesting a new form of "bioterrorism" to
facilitate what past CIA Director James
Woolsy called "industrial espionage," Dr.
Horowitz considered the fortuitous fear
campaign that facilitated Tyson's takeover
of the Hudson Beef Company in 1997 after the
latter's stock dropped in value 35% due to
an alleged E. coli contamination that was
never confirmed. The doctor's suspicions
were based on a review of a U.S.
Congressional Record that showed E. coli had
been one of the principle germs manipulated
by the CIA, and James Woolsy's statement,
"With the end of the Cold War, the CIA must
enter the era of economic [or industrial]
espionage." In the language of espionage,
French columnist Paul Javanovic explained,
this meant "the CIA will henceforth do many
services for American enterprises which take
the trouble to ask it for Ohelp' in both
counterespionage and espionage itself."
Regarding the foot-and-mouth outbreak, a
similar ruse was proposed involving Tyson
only months following their Hudson Beef
takeover. This time it was a chicken
influenza "outbreak" in Asia. In December
1997, the Associated Press reported that a
60-year-old woman had died of "suspected
bird flu." The U.S. Government immediately
announced it would halt "all chicken imports
from China in a move to curb the spread of
the virus." Days later, pressured by the
media and foreign governments, 1.2 million
Asian chickens were slaughtered to allegedly
prevent the flu from spreading to other
countries and species.
"Few knew that prior to these events," Dr.
Horowitz wrote, "Tyson was vying to bring
the Asian poultry industry into its global
monopolistic fold. The emergency primarily
targeted Tyson's Asian competition farmers.
What was most likely a CIA-directed
"outbreak" conveniently required the
annihilation of Tyson's competitors. That
would have been a very effective, albeit
immoral, industrial espionage operation."
On March 15, 2001, USA Today reported that
Tyson Foods stands to gain most from the
current foot-and-mouth disease problem. They
had four times tried to purchase America's
leading beef supplier IBP Corporation, most
recently for $3.2 billion, or $30 per share
of stock valued at only $24.11. The
international slaughter of cattle, the
article said, was sure to reduce IBP profits
making Tyson's offer even more appealing.
Dr. Horowitz, in support of the British
Farmers for Action, is calling for an
immediate halt to the slaughter of
uninfected herds, and an investigation by
the British government officials into the
possibility that the entire foot-and-mouth
disease outbreak was premeditated.
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NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: For background
information on Dr. Horowitz link to
www.tetrahedron.org or call Contessa
Morton at 208-265-2575.
