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Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [farmtalking] Re: BSE/Scrapie files

Dear All,

One glaringly obvious legal challenge to mount against DEFRA and their autocratic scrapie slaughter scheme could be based upon the following charge of
negligence and maladministration.

The taxes of the British public paid out 25 million pounds to finance the recent Lord Phillip's BSE Inquiry – published October 2000. This Inquiry reached
the decisive conclusion that scrapie had nothing to do with the cause of BSE.(
However, because of the acute embarrassment suffered by many in high authority, this conclusion was conveniently obfuscated by many of the MAFF minders and
their media spin docters in the national newspapers ) .

Despite these long awaited conclusions, DEFRA have chosen to blatantly ignore
this advice, and autocratically uses another few billion of taxpayers money to launch their new scrapie slaughter programme on the 'scientific' basis that
scrapie was the cause of BSE – eg; the total opposite of what they were told to do by the BSE Inquiry !! This reckless totalitarian misconduct constitutes
a negligent and willful waste of taxpayers money. I remain amazed that none of
the bodies that are pretending to represent the farmer's interests – like the
NFU, or sheep groups, etc – are not picking up on this major bout of bureaucratic schizophrenia .

 If DEFRA as much as attempt to enter my property to merely test our sheep , the inept ignoramuses will find themselves in the high courts before they have
had time to get their boots on..I will sue both DEFRA as a government body, plus each individual uncivilised servant that enters our farm.

On another more personal point, the BSE Inquiry had also decreed that my research work should be funded , since their overall conclusion was that my work
held merit. DEFRA responded by merely inviting me to put in for funding ( x2)
but then, after one year of sitting on my application, they rejected it for a
host of irrational and unscientific reasons.

Best,

Mark Purdey

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