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GM crop farms filled with weeds
In sci.med.nutrition Jim Webster wrote:
"Brian Sandle" wrote in message ... I was trying to inquire into the drop in wheat prices, so look for the drop in consumption of wheat. In sci.agriculture Jim Webster wrote: "Brian Sandle" wrote in message ... In sci.agriculture Jim Webster wrote: "Brian Sandle" wrote in message ... You have a related problem - another unnatural agricultural procedure that was warned about: feeding meat to cattle, causing spread of BSE. and that affects wheat prices exactly how? BSE did impinge on beef prices And there were fewer cattle to feed, no, because beef animals are predominantly a by-product of the dairy industry. I see, dairy cattle not eating animal byproducts, therefore not getting BSE, therefore not being slaughtered and reduced in numbers owing to BSE? Total and utter rubbish, you have missed the point by so much it is hardly worth the effort of correcting you. So instead dairy getting supplementary feed till they become too old, then go onto grass as beef animals? Now where was BSE and culling in that? The number of beef cattle has been falling very slowly over the years as the number of dairy and beef cows has slowly fallen. The biggest cause in the fall in beef numbers is milk quota which, when combined with steadily increasing dairy genetic merit and milk yields has meant there are less milk cows producing the same about of milk and less money to buy grain feed? Ruminants are not big users of wheat, pigs and poultry and the largest users What proportion of UK wheat is bought buy farmers? Then the available storage silos would be getting full sooner, so the wheat would have to go to market without waiting for a better price. Not a problem, the beef industry is not a major user of wheat I see 1/3 of UK wheat goes to animal feed. And a few days ago you wrote: : In the long term, maize has been displaced by wheat in UK diets : purely on price, the last round of CAP reforms cut the market price : of EU produced feed wheat which made maize comparatively expensive : for feed compounders using 'least cost' formulations. When I was a : kid cattle feed was basical ly a mixture of maize and soya, which : is something the UK industry hasn't be en able to afford for over : thirty years. Looks like you were relating of cattle feed. That was why I used the words Cattle feed, because I was relating it to cattle. Indeed the largest consumers of cattle feeds are dairy cows anyway, which is why I said the beef industry is not a major user of wheat. It is remarkably easy to understand if you actually read the words So animals eat 1/3 of UK wheat, pigs and poultry eat the better part of this, but it is also an important supplementary feed for dairy. Did or did not BSE culling cause a reduction of some percent in demand for UK wheat? Did that follow on to a some percent sooner filling of silos and wheat going straight on to market, triggering lower prices? Note: Linkname: From BSE to GMOs - What Have We Learned? URL: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/bse.php ***** [...] The aim of this booklet is to inform the public about some of the major failings in the government's handling of the BSE crises, and to demonstrate that a similar scenario is now being repeated with GMOs. Dr Narang combines his experience with BSE, with his concerns over food GM foods, to convey an important message to all members of the public. [...] The authorities in Ireland adopted the approach of slaughtering the whole herd in which any clinical case of BSE was detected. Breeding from affected animals was also stopped so that the infectious agent did not pass from one generation to the next. These practices succeeded in keeping the total number of BSE cases in Ireland to below 100. Advice to adopt the same approach was also available in Britain to the relevant authority, the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF), but it was ignored, and breeding from affected animals continued in Britain. Out of the170, 000 animals confirmed with BSE in Britain, 40, 000 of them were born after the feed ban was introduced in 1988. [...] Dr Narang has published all his findings in peer reviewed scientific journals on the nature of the infectious agent of BSE. The infectious agent is a slow acting virus that consists of a single stranded (ss) DNA genome which is associated with the prion protein. Furthermore, the agent is transmitted maternally from cow to calf via the ssDNA. Without the implementation of a diagnostic test, maternal transmission has gone unchecked. This means that the infectious agent may still be widespread within British livestock while thousands of perfectly healthy cattle may have been destroyed unnecessarily. Dr Narang has also suggested the need to develop a vaccine against BSE and new variant CJD. In 1997, the Medical Research Council (MRC) agreed to evaluate Dr Narang's diagnostic test (western blotting/ELISA equipment) and set up a special CJD urine test-committee to oversee his work. The National CJD Surveillance Unit at Edinburgh was asked to provide Dr Narang with 20 blind samples of urine, 10 samples from CJD cases and 10 from non-CJD cases, so as to evaluate the test. However, the National CJD Surveillance Unit failed to provide the urine samples in the form requested. The test therefore has not been evaluated by the MRC and no CJD diagnostic test is in use to this day, making it impossible to monitor the actual number of CJD cases. Dr Narang has found it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to get funding for scientific research in this country. He has been forced to pursue his endeavours abroad. [...] ****** A tonsil test was recently used in New Zealand to prove a young person did not have vCJD. So apparently some of Narang's work is getting through, now. I am trying to figure the economic forces in it all. Who made the most money on the great cull? Or was it nobody and just stupid? |
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