Originally from: mark purdey
                        
Reply to Burkie in Kansas-

You have a good point, since I am just about to publish a massive soil / vegetation / water study that I have carried out across the TSE hotspot regions ( BSE, wasting disease, etc ) in North America over the last two years. Having looked at 46 different metals, I have pinpointed a clear cut correlation with the excessive levels of two toxic metals in the soils / vegetation ( and their radioactive emissions !) that I collected from the farm where the BSE cow was raised and the CWD affected deer farms, etc, in Alberta / Saskatchewan and the other TSE hotspot zones that I sampled across Colorado / Wisconsin / New Mexico.

As you suggest, the presence of oil and gas wells were well evident in virtually all of those areas. I sampled one elk farm on the borders of sakatch / Alberta that had had forty cases of CWD, before the entire herd was slaughtered. There was a gas well located in almost every field, and I left the farm with a sore throat that had been caused by the presence of the fumes there. – NB; this is probably why TSE CWD emerges in the tonsils of the deer. Its a toxicity, nothing to do with bloody infectious agents passing from one deer to another!!!

I have subsequently traced the outbreaks of BSE in Japan ( where I was studying two weeks ago ) to theJapanese farms which had been importing hay from North America – being hay that had been grown on land where waste drilling mud had been spread for disposal purposes ( Farmers are forbidden to graze this land for one year after the treatment, but, bizarrely, are allowed to sell the hay
!!!! ). My samples showed that these toxic elements X are excessively high in the soil and vegetation ( particularly alfalfa ) of any land which has been treated with this waste drilling mud.

It's all so obvious what is causing this BSE problem when you get out there into the real environment and derive some first hand experience of the cluster areas and look for those common toxic denominators- thats why it is driving me crazy having to listen to the world's media going on about this hyperinfectious myth everyday ofthe week.

I would also like to take this opportunity to correct some disinformation that has been publicly announced by DEFRA officials whenever the issue of ' government funding of my research' has been raised at public meetings. For instance, It was publicly stated by Mike Dawson of DEFRA on August 28th at Penrith that I had been offered funding but I had turned it down. This is completely untrue. I have never been offered funding by the UK government or anybody from the UK in fact. My applications for funding to the UK government have only ever been rejected and then subsequently plagerised by the 'quango' peer reviewers who they had appointed. A total tragedy from my personal perspective.

Best,

Mark Purdey