Originally from: mark purdey
                        
Subj: Re: [farmtalking] EU COMPULSORY SCRAPIE MEASURES 
Date: 01/11/03 09:47:26 GMT Standard Time
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Originally from: <A HREF="mailto:MadCowPurdey">MadCowPurdey</A> To: <A HREF="...">...</A>
 

This is bloody appalling concerning the scrapie measures – absolutely disgraceful that such a wholly unscientific policy has been able to permeate its way to the top of EU agendas and take control .

But in a sense, it is the farming community's fault for allowing such stupidity to gain a foothold. We have the power to challenge the wobbly science that this whole myth is founded on . But we do not. The NFU , the sheep associations simply lick up to the so called 'experts' who have launched this suicide on our agriculrural system , and go along with them under the hopelessly naive assumption that these experts know best. They bloody do not.   

It is very frustrating for me to watch this going on. In that I have travelled the world and carried out wholly scientifically credible analyses on the cluster areas of these scrapie-TSE diseases and I have pinpointed the cause. But because my research findings deviate from the ideas of our government expert's and are politically embarrassing, etc, (and I repeat ideas, because these notions are totally unsupported ), then government experts spend a few million more of our taxes in mounting campaigns of disinformation to discredit the true value of my work. So who do the NFU, National Sheep association, etc, listen to at the end of the day – the experts. This is the root of our problem.

It is the farming communities fault for allowing this ridiculous situation of government totalitarian take over to exist. You have the power to challenge them as individuals – or a group action via the high courts . Their science is non existant.

For instance – Scrapie susceptible genotypes are rife in the Australian sheep flock, yet no clinical scrapie emerges in that country at all. Why ?, because the specific environmental factors are not present in Australia that are required to switch on clinical disease . But if you export those scrapie susceptible genotypes into countries where the environmental factors do exist , then cases of scrapie will start to break out.    We all carry suceptibilities to a myriad of diseases in our bodies, but that does not mean that we will contract a single one of them within our lifetimes – that's biology. All Disease is multifactorial and requires environmental exposures to viruses or chemicals or metals, etc, to manifest itself. The genetic susceptibility facet is not the whole story.

In the case of sheep, susceptibility to scrapie might even be advantageous in a genetic sense and be associated with providing unseen benefits to the animal in other areas of the biological system.Why have these animals survived the test of evolution so far ?, we must ask ourselves.  We do not need to meddle in this way. To outright slaughter these animals is a totally and utterly insane policy of the highest degree. The so called scientists who are promoting this final farcical solution should be sacked instantly. I am nauseated by the thought of the burial graves following mass slaughter. We must rebel now.

Best,