"Jim Webster" wrote in message ...

Lotus wrote in message
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'2.8 Dairy herds were far more affected by BSE than beef herds.

yes, because Dairy herds are far more likely to get MBM in their
rations,.

That too, as well as more manganese.

no because beef herds will get mineralised blocks or similar which dairy
cattle will never normally be offered.

But beef herds use salt licks at will. Added to feed, the animal
has no choice but to ingest it.

who is the UK are almost all daughters of conventional cows who were
treated with OPs

It says 'home reared'.

clever girl, and where do you think the orginial organic dairy cows came
from, spontaneous evolution of life from horsehair and mud?

Again;

'The lack of BSE incidence in beef suckler herds (1) and total lack
of BSE in home reared cattle on organic farms (87) can

not that last word

can

can what? Where's the rest, jimbob?

--restore--

... can be attributed
to the preferential use of the ‘non OP’ ivermectin types of warblecide
on these farms. Whereas on conventional dairy farms where BSE
incidence rates were high (1), licensing restrictions on the use of
ivermectin on ‘in milk’ cows necessitated the exclusive use of OP
types of warblecide on dairy farms for economic reasons. '
http://www.markpurdey.com/science_th...s_of_bse_5.htm

it can be attributed to any damned thing that you want. Except that OPs
didn't have the same problem anywhere else when used it similar levels,

Don't they? We've covered this already, and, yes, they do.

'Apart from Portugal which only exposed its cattle to an in-feed
source of bioconcentrated phosmet/ prions in the fat/tallow
fraction of MBM imported from the UK, the only other countries
affected with endemic BSE outside of the UK are Eire, the Channel
Islands, France and Switzerland which are the other countries
besides the UK that have exposed their livestock both directly
and indirectly to potentially significant doses of phosmet.'
http://www.markpurdey.com/science_highdose_3.htm

and MBM has a better match

What in MBM exactly?