Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Mad Cow Desease Demonstration

생명과 국민 주권 회복을 위한 정의구현 전주교구 사제단의 입장

“너희는 세상의 빛이다. 산 위에 자리 잡은 고을은 감추어질 수 없다. 등불은 켜서 함지 속이 아니라 등경 위에 놓는다. 그렇게 하여 집 안에 있는 모든 사람을 비춘다. 이와 같이 너희의 빛이 사람들 앞을 비추어, 그들이 너희의 착한 행실을 보고 하늘에 계신 너희 아버지를 찬양하게 하여라.” (마태 5, 14-16)

“너희도 알다시피 다른 민족들의 통치자라는 자들은 백성 위에 군림하고, 고관들은 백성에게 세도를 부린다. 그러나 너희는 그래서는 안 된다. 너희 가운데에서 높은 사람이 되려는 이는 너희를 섬기는 사람이 되어야 한다. 또한 너희 가운데에서 첫째가 되려는 이는 모든 이의 종이 되어야 한다.” (마르 10, 42-44)

지금 대한민국은 촛불의 함성이 펼쳐지고 있습니다. 10대부터 70대에 이르기까지의 국민들이 촛불을 들고 거리에 모입니다. 그들은 대한민국의 주권과 생명권을 무시하고 있는 권력자의 모습에 그들 스스로 저항하며 촛불을 들었습니다. 그리고 경찰이 와서 때리면 맞고 잡아가면 웃으면서 잡혀갑니다. 또 지난 25일에는 전주시민 이병렬님이 촛불 하나하나가 횃불이 되고 횃불이 활화산이 되는 그날까지 촛불을 들자고 온몸을 불사렀습니다. 이런 모습을 보면서 하느님의 복음을 전하는 저희 사제들은 마음이 많이 아파옵니다.

이명박 정부는 출범하자마자 온 국토를 파헤치는 대운하 사업, 광우병 위험이 있는 미국산 쇠고기를 전면적으로 개방하는 굴욕 협상을 맺었습니다. 쇠고기 문제는 국민들의 안정과 생명에 직결되는 중요한 문제였으나 이명박 정부는 재협상을 요구하는 국민들의 의사를 무시하고 장관 고시(告示)를 하였습니다. 광우병은 무서운 질병으로 걸리면 결국 죽음에 이르게 됩니다. 광우병은 30개월 이상이 된 쇠고기에서 99% 발생하며 잠복기는 5년 이상으로 최대 30년에 이른다고 합니다. 때문에 장관 고시로 이제 학교급식, 군대 급식, 일반식당에 미국산 수입쇠고기가 유통되기 시작하면 우리의 식탁은 안전이 보장 될 수없는 상황에 놓이게 됩니다.

백성의 소리는 하느님의 소리입니다. 대한민국 국민 전체의 아픔과 슬픔, 고통의 소리가 울려 퍼지고 있는데 이명박 정부는 하느님의 소리를 외면하고 있습니다. 국민들의 소리를 들으려하지 않으면 돌들이 소리를 지를 것입니다. 우리는 역대 집권세력들이 국민의 소리를 막고 물리력을 동원하여 국민들을 핍박한 사례들을 잘 알고 있습니다. 아무리 입에 재갈을 물리고 공권력으로 국민들을 핍박해도 결국 정의의 강물은 도도히 흐르는 것입니다. 그러므로 우리는 개인과 가족, 그리고 사회 전반의 안전을 위하여 국민들과 함께 촛불을 들고 함께 나아가고자 합니다. 국민들과 함께 촛불을 들고 하느님께 처절한 기도를 바치고 싶습니다. 대한민국의 주권은 국민에게 있고 권력은 국민으로 나오므로 이명박 정부는 즉각 고시를 철회하고 재협상에 임해야 할 것입니다.

사제단은 이를 위해 다음과 같이 입장을 밝힙니다.

1. 현재의 사태는 전적으로 이명박 정부의 책임입니다. 따라서 이명박 정부가 국민의 정정당당한 외침을 즉각 수용해야만 합니다. 우리는 광우병 위협 미국산 쇠고기 수입반대를 위하여 고시철회와 재협상을 강력히 촉구합니다.

2. 이명박 정부는 국민들의 불복종 평화대행진을 공권력을 동원하여 탄압하고 있습니다. 이명박 정부는 과거 독재정권의 형태를 즉각 중단하고 평화대행진을 보장해야만 합니다. 어떠한 경우에도 폭력적인 행위는 더 큰 저항이 올 것임을 경고합니다.

3. 촛불은 자신의 몸을 태워 어둠을 물리치는 정의로운 행동입니다. 촛불은 우리 시대의 십자가를 지고 세상을 향해 나아가는 평화의 행진입니다. 우리는 이 촛불이 꺼지지 않도록 국민들과 함께하겠습니다.

2008년 5월30일

천주교정의구현전주교구사제단

1 comment:

Terry S. Singeltary Sr. said...

June 11, 2008, 10:14PM

U.S. slams door on revising S. Korea beef

import pact Pressed at home, Seoul had wanted 30-month limit on age of the cattle

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5832282.html

http://usdavskorea.blogspot.com/2008/06/us-slams-door-on-revising-s-korea-beef.html

well, so the U.S. slams the mad cow door on Korea and it's people, due to the bungled beef deal the USDA shoved down Lee's throat. sadly, Lee signed the deal oblivious to what really has been going on behind closed doors for years here in the USA, and the USDA et al knew they had a fish on the line. my God, this guy was totally ignorant of what they were doing. now the kind honorable people of Korea will be force fed USDA certified beef. beef that has been highly suspect of mad cow disease since the USDA shut down testing, this after finding two cases of the atypical BSE in Alabama and Texas. remember, atypical BSE is more virulent than the UK BSE strain. Also, it seems the O.I.E. has sealed the deal on trading all strains of TSE i.e. mad cow disease strains globally, all for a buck, commodities and futures, to hell with human health. it's business as usual folks, eat up, and die old and demented, if your lucky. I must apologize to the kind honorable citizens of Korea for what my Government has done. I tried. But as the USDA certified beef starts to flood Korean markets, remember one thing Korea, you don't have to buy it. let it rot, until the USDA et al gets there head out of their pockets, and start to test all food producing cattle and all livestock for BSE and all TSE. CJD is a slow death while incubating. so you will not see the body bags all at once. as in the past here, it will be labeled as dementia, misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's and other dementia ailments. it will become an acceptable death as here in the USA due to the push by the industries and your Government due to the financial aspect of it. The OIE and my Government sold their souls to the devil, and if you don't believe me, just read the history. let it all be sporadic and or spontaneous they say, and make them eat it, and like it. that's their motto. to hell with the consumer. Every American and Korean consumer should be demanding 100% BSE/TSE mad cow testing on all livestock food producing animals, for humans and animals. This should be a no-brainer, but instead, it's a brain eater. Consumption of beef is but only one route of many, that can kill you from mad cow disease (all strains). friendly fire i.e. iatrogenic CJD from the medical and surgical arenas, dental, and blood, all are a real threat, from 2nd, 3rd, 4th passage, from someone that consumed meat from an animal with TSE. They can be long incubators, not clinical yet, but they can go on and infected many more via these routes, so please do not get hung up on the 'hamburger only' route. this is one of many routes, from one of many strains, from only one species. WE must take all Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies as the real threat they really are. DO NOT let the incubation period of all these documented TSEs in cattle, sheep, goats, deer, elk, mink, cats, do not let them fool you. The long term threat is very real, it's been real, and it's been ignored, all the while CJD is rising in the USA. all the time the USA has been shipping cattle and feed to God knows whom. again, it was the OIE, the USDA et al, and their BSE MRR (Minimal Risk Region) rule, that opened the gates to the exporting of all strains of TSE globally. This new rule set back the eradication BSE to the stone age, or back to day one in or around 1985, when BSE was first _documented_. The BSE MRR policy erased all attempted eradication of BSE. This will be one more of GWs et al sad, sad legacies that will go down in history as nothing more than what the UK did back when they failed to warn the world of their tainted cattle, MBM (greaves) etc. they just continued to ship it around the globe. BUT what the OIE, GW, and the USDA did was simply made it legal i.e. BSE MRR, the legal trading of all strains of TSE globally $$$

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

OIE Recognition of the BSE Status of Members RESOLUTION No. XXI (Adopted by the International Committee of the OIE on 27 May 2008)

snip...

http://usdavskorea.blogspot.com/2008/06/oie-recognition-of-bse-status-of.html

http://organicconsumers.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=1566

U.S. slams door on revising S. Korea beef import pact

June 11, 2008, 10:14PM

http://usdavskorea.blogspot.com/2008/06/us-slams-door-on-revising-s-korea-beef.html

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

OIE Recognition of the BSE Status of Members RESOLUTION No. XXI (Adopted by the International Committee of the OIE on 27 May 2008)

http://usdavskorea.blogspot.com/2008/06/oie-recognition-of-bse-status-of.html

http://organicconsumers.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=1566

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Export Requirements for the Republic of Korea IMPORT HEALTH REQUIREMENTS FOR U.S. BEEF AND BEEF PRODUCTS

http://usdavskorea.blogspot.com/2008/06/export-requirements-for-republic-of.html

Why Americans, As Well as Koreans, Should Be Worried About Mad Cow Tainted USA Beef

By Terry S. Singeltary Sr. May 15, 2008

Straight to the Source

Web Note: This is an important commentary by Terry S. Singeltary Sr., on a recent Business Week story on the controversy in South Korea over their government's lifting on the ban on conventional (non-organic) beef, despite the fact that the USDA is still allowing slaughterhouse waste and blood and manure to be fed to cows, and refusing to test all cows at slaughter. See the Mad Cow section of the OCA website for in-depth information. Terry is a regular blogger on the OCA website on Mad Cow issues.

Ronnie Cummins

One Korean official says the probability of a human being catching a mad cow disease by eating U.S. beef is like the one of a golf player scoring a hole-in-one and then being killed by lightning.

this is typical BSe. you here industry groups comment 'your more likely to get hit by a car than die from CJD'. well, maybe so, but my mother and many more did not die from getting hit by a car, they died from CJD, my mothers being the hvCJD (confirmed), and my neighbors mother died from CJD (confirmed). the UKBSEnvCJD _only_ theory is incorrect. there are more strains of mad cow than the UK BSE in beef to nvCJD in humans in the UK. The deception by the USDA, FDA, and the Bush administration about mad cow disease, CJD, and all Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy over the past 8 years have been outrageous, to a point of being criminal. I am vested in nothing, but the truth.

snip...see full text ;

http://www.grassrootsnetroots.org/articles/article_12387.cfm

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Concerned Americans against Mad Cow Disease STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY with Koreans May 13, 2008

http://usdavskorea.blogspot.com/2008/05/concerned-americans-against-mad-cow.html

http://flounder068.vox.com/library/post/concerned-americans-against-mad-cow-disease-statement-of-solidarity-with-koreans-may-13-2008.html

http://www.koreantopnews.com/story.php?title=USDA_VS_KOREA_typical_or_atypical_BSe_Concerned_Americans_against_Mad_Cow_Disease_STATEMENT_OF_SOLIDARITY_with_Koreans_May_13_2008

BSE YOUNGEST AGE STATISTICS UNDER 30 MONTHS

http://bseyoungestage.blogspot.com/

http://flounder068.vox.com/library/post/bse-youngest-age-statistics-under-30-months.html

FDA Has Provided Few Details on the Resources and Strategies Needed to Implement its Food Protection Plan

What GAO Found

http://fdafailedus.blogspot.com/

http://fdafailedus.blogspot.com/2008/06/federal-oversight-of-food-safety-fda.html

CJD/TSE news

http://disc.yourwebapps.com/Indices/236650.html

kindest regards, terry

PEACE

Terry S. Singeltary Sr. P.O. Box 42 Bacliff, Texas USA 77518