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GM crop farms filled with weeds
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? You have totally misunderstood, the dairy herd is a major source of beef animals because of the calves they produce. In the UK, as an approximation, 60% of beef came from the reared calves of dairy cows. snipped 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. Wheat is rarely fed as straight wheat to dairy cows. If is included ground and mixed in a balanced compound Its inclusion in compounds is determined by cost, all compounders use least cost software to produce a compound of the designated feed quality for the lowest price. So if wheat is cheap the inclusion will increase, this happened last year. This year with wheat being dear, the proportion is falling. But for dairy cows, too much wheat can cause nutritional problems and so tends to be avoided. With poultry inclusion rates can be as high as 65%, with pigs 60%, I would be wary about buying a dairy cake with more than 25% wheat inclusion Did or did not BSE culling cause a reduction of some percent in demand for UK wheat? No, because the number of dairy cows did not change noticeably, and the number of their offspring didn't chance much. Remember that due to weather the UK grain harvest can vary between 11 and 16 million tonnes anyway, so a change in usage of a few thousand tonnes is not going to have any meaningful effect on price. 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? Only money made was by people who suddenly got big research grants. Shroud waving rules. We spent £4 billion a year and yet current predictions are that there will be less than a couple of hundred dead. If we had spent this money on kidney treatment or even maternity, we would have saved tens of thousands of lives. Jim Webster |
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