Originally from: Burkie
                        
Dear Friends: It seems to me that you have one man that will do absolutely anything to rid your country of a ram, a lamb, or a ewe. Mr. Morley. And you have his counter-part compatriot, Mrs. Beckett.

I have watched what's been going on for nearly two years, regarding the sheep industry in the U.K...now...and without a doubt in my mind, I can honestly say, I have never seen them stand up to protect the sheep industry of Britain in any way.

Their goal is to eliminate it.

With that being said, just look at the latest announcements"

http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/farmandcountry/page.cfm?objectid=12392758&method=full&siteid=50142

Scrapie programme fear as sheep develops BSE
 Nov 21 2002
 By Andrew Forgrave Rural Affairs Editor, Daily Post

 
 A £120m PROGRAMME to eradicate scrapie from British lamb
 has been thrown into doubt after an experiment with a
 sheep caused it to develop mad cow disease.

 The sheep, one of a group most resistant to scrapie,
 developed BSE during an experiment in which its brain was
 injected.

 It is the first time the dis-ease has been transmitted to a
 sheep of this genotype.

 Although rural ministry Defra has stressed the risk of natural
 infection remains no more than theoretical, the news is a
 blow to government plans to breed scrapieresistance in
 Britain's 20 million sheep within 10 years.

 Animal health minister Elliot Morley, who yesterday reported
 the findings to the EC's Standing Committee on the Food
 Chain and Animal Health, is now taking urgent advice.

 He has asked the govern-ment's Spongiform
 Encephalopathy Committee (Seac) to advise on whether
 the research result, by the Institute of Animal Health, has
 implications for the National Scrapie Plan (NSP). Seac will
 meet early next month.

 The Assembly, which was shortly due to announce a
 Wales-only extension to the NSP, is being kept informed.

 A spokeswoman said: "It has been known for some time
 that sheep can be infected with BSE under experimental
 conditions. So this result, if confirmed, will tell us nothing
 more than we already know about the possibility of BSE in
 the national flock."

 This view was echoed by John Thorley, chief executive of
 the National Sheep Association, who said that while the
 research was "scientifically interesting", it should not
 impact on the government's scrapie policy.

 The NSP has genotyped 210,000 sheep since its launch in
 July 2001.

 In Wales 1,089 Welsh flocks have been genotyped and
 1,526 applications are being processed. A further 25,000
 ewes were genotyped under the Assembly's Welsh Ewe
 Genotyping Scheme last year.

 Welsh Rural Development Minister Mike German said at the
 time he hoped the changes would encourage more farm-ers
 to participate in the NSP.

 Mr Morley added: "The risk is theoretical and there is no
 reason why anyone should stop eating sheep meat."

Now then, let's just sit back and think.

1. How many obstacles have been put up ....by THESE TWO PEOPLE....TO ELIMINATE AN INDUSTRY?

2. WHY?

3. NEITHER ARE QUALIFIED, NOR HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE RAISING LIVESTOCK, REGARDLESS OF SPECIES

4. IS IT A HATE THING?

5. OR IS IT A MATTER OF STUFFING UP THEIR OWN PERSONAL AGENDAS?

6. IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S BECOME A PERSONAL VENDETTA TO PERSECUTE
 ANYONE IN THE U.K. THAT RAISES A SHEEP BY MORLEY AND BECKETT.

7. I FIND THIS UNBELIEVEABLE. THE U.K. LOST ITS PRESTIGE
 WHEN OTHER FIBERS BECAME THE FIBERS OF CHOICE BY THE WORLD
 PUBLIC LONG AGO.....THEREBY LOSING IT'S PRESTIGIOUS POSITION
 AS THE PRIMARY SUPPLIER OF WOOLENS.

8. LOSING THAT PRESTIGE IS SEEMS TO BE WHAT MORLEY AND BECKETT
 ARE ALL ABOUT. THEY WANT IT BACK....BUT CAN'T GET IT BACK.

9. SO THEY WANT TO SCUTTLE THE WHOLE SHIP AND FORCE EVERY SINGLE
 SHEEP PRODUCER OUT OT BUSINESS.

10. AND WHETHER YOU REALIZE IT OR NOT....THEY'LL USE "OFF-THE-WALL" SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS WITH BRAINS INJECTED AS A LAUDABLE WAY TO RID YOUR COUNTRY OF YOUR SHEEP.

A Minister of Agriculture? Supportive of his or her own countrymen? Bull. These two people have literally destroyed your agriculture in the past two years...with the tacit approval of your own Prime Minister and his Labour party happy campers with their friends in the loo.

Sick.

Sickest.

Who can respect anything out of the current U.K., other than knowing people, personally?

Burkie in Kansas