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You may remember that last year I had a ram lamb that had tested R1 when his dam was ARQ/ARQ. This year he has thrown 11 ARQ young out of 23. His test result obviously wrong. They would like to re-test but he is already sold so that is a decision to be made by his new owners. I am greatly pleased that I told those interested that his grading was in doubt!
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Mind you most folk on this Group know that I am highly suspicious of much scientific research. It's proved wrong too often!

Cheers, Ron.

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Subject: Re: [farmtalking] EU COMPULSORY SCRAPIE MEASURES

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 t ravelled 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,

Mark Purdey

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