Media Stars’ views on Green Issues.

This section looks at the green views, often the lack of them, of the people working, or appearing, in the brutish media whether politicians, news-readers, pop stars, etc.

Ashley, Jackie.

"The left might be tempted to cheer. After all, almost everyone in government agrees that many leaders of the fuel protest were right wing, anti-labour types, union busting hauliers, anti-european small businessmen and fox-hunting shire tories. This is the uprising of daily mail man and white van man, the people who hate tony blair and resent labour's victory."[1] The critical role of farmers in the september 2000 fuel protest is not mentioned  - he's vaguely sympathetic to the protestors.

Barnett, Anthony.

In may 1999 barnett argued, “New variant cjd - the human form of bse - has claimed 40 victims so far, but no hard evidence has yet linked it to eating beef.”[2]

Bishop, Patrick

A commentator in the daily telegraph avoids blaming the french bse crisis on brutish pharmers. Instead of denouncing brutland for exporting bse, he implies the disease has somehow just spontaneously appeared on the continent of its own accord, “France has been told to brace itself for an outbreak of variant Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease, the human form of bse in cattle, similar to that in Britain.”[3]

Booker, Christopher.

With North, Richard.

“Even now, most people have not grasped just how flimsy was the scientific basis for that statement (that there were 10 bse-cjd victims). Indeed, it is astonishing that, before allowing mr dorrell to stand up in parliament, his officials, led by the chief medical officer, kenneth calman, did not subject the scientific advisory committee (seac) to rigorous grilling. The cjd surveillance unit in edinburgh claimed to have identified 10 cases of a new strain of cjd. It had no hard evidence to suggest a probable link between the "new strain" cjd and bse - indeed, its findings subsequently published in the lancet were laughably thin. Why had it done so little research to establish that the strain really was new? Why had it not inquired whether the "new strain" of cjd had already been identified in countries where bse was rare, or even non-existent?”[4]

Support for Mark Purdey.

At the end of october, christopher booker of the telegraph confessed his support for mark purdey’s insecticides’ theory of bse - i.e. that bse was caused by insecticides and not transmitted by meat and bone meal. He repeated purdey’s prediction that because bseef did not pose a health risk, bse would not pose a health threat in europe, "He (lord phillips) does accept without question that bse was spread by 'the recycling of animal protein in ruminant feed' but he completely avoids a major objection to this theory: why then could 40,000 tons of such cattle food made from cattle remains have been exported without apparently causing bse in other countries? If beef is the cause of vcjd, why then, since the french ate up to 350,000 elderly cows a year imported from britain in the years before 1996, the very animals susceptible to bse, has france recorded only 2 cases of vcjd? But one of Phillips's most remarkable findings is that the unique degree to which british cows were exposed to organo-phosphorus pesticides, although not in itself a cause of the epidemic, could have increased the susceptibility of cattle to bse. This is precisely the view i have several times reported in the past eight years ..."[5] Booker wrote this statement a few days before europe erupted in anger about the spread of the disease across the continent!!!

Booker believed there was no bse amongst livestock on the continent - “without apparently causing bse in other countries”. Paradoxically, what this means is that whilst one group of right wingers is busy publicizing the idea that foreign beef is now contaminated by bse, and is thus far less safe than brutish bseef, another group of right wingers is arguing the continent doesn’t have any bse. Thankfully the propaganda of the centre right is being undermined by the propaganda of the far right.

Booker believes people do not contract bse-cjd by eating brutish bseef. The reason he believes brutish bseef is safe to eat is because the although french have eaten large amounts of imported brutish bseef, there have been only two victims of the disease. This is a mind numbingly simplistic argument. The chances of french people dying from the disease a mere 10 years after france started importing huge quantities of meat and bone meal (mbm) are remote. There is a 5-10 year time lag between events in brutland and events on the continent. Secondly, there are more suspected cases of bse-cjd on the continent in the pipeline. Finally, the french medical authorities are not as geared up to detecting cases of bse-cjd as their brutish counterparts.

It is utterly appalling, at a time when scientists are beginning to realize just how deadly bse is, that this political commentator encourages people to believe that bseef is safe to eat. He will have been responsible for encouraging people to digest a deadly disease. He argues there is no certainty that bse is found in brutish bseef and yet he is certain that bse is not present in brutish bseef. It has to be wondered what purdey thinks of the way his theory is being used to encourage people to eat bseef - even non-organic bseef.

Booker is one of several bse-denialists writing for the telegraph newspaper. He denies virtually everything about bse - it was not caused by scrapie or a new tse; it was not spread by Cattle feed. And like many other right wingers he has taken up purdey’s hypothesis that the disease was caused by the widespread use of insecticides.

Boseley, Sarah.

"Regrettably, Sheep's brains are off at st john's restaurant in clerkenwell, near london's smithfield market, where they specialize in "nose to tail eating"."[6]

Butler, the rt reverend Tom.

On radio four, the bishop of leicester, the rt reverend tom butler, condemned the bse-on-the-bone ban as an attack on individual freedom, “The rt rev tom butler .. said the ban was as sensible as a “dinosaur-on-the-bone ban”.”[7]

Byrnes, Stephen.

“Bse is probably not caused by cows eating animal parts with their food, a practice which imitates nature, as cows eating fresh grass consume insect larvae and eggs.”[8]

Calman, Kenneth - Former Chief Medical Officer.

Calman harbours a politically conventional perspective about cars, "Our esteemed chief medical officer, kenneth calman, noted last week a striking increase in hospital admissions and gp consultations for asthma. It now affects two million people he says .. He looks at possible causes and lists .. "genetic predisposition to the illness which can be triggered by various factors including diet, maternal cigarette smoking and indoor and outdoor pollution. The two words that have been studiously avoided are "emissions" and "transport". Calman has a government issue rover 216."[9]

Carroll, Sue

Politically Conventional - 30.12.98.

Carroll writes a column for the mirror. In january 1998, she introduced herself in her column and made it clear she belonged to the political conventional wing of brutish politics, “I will take a swipe at the politically correct brigade who attempt to rule our lives. I make no apology for the fact that i smoke, drink and eat red meat by the pound.”[10] Later that year she announced, “Here’s my new year resolution .. eat red meat, drink, smoke ...”[11]

Pro Pharmer/F&M - 28.2.2001.

“For all its tragedy and the appalling consequences, the outbreak of f&m disease has done more to highlight the importance of our farmers than any countryside protest ever could. Parks, zoos, and nature reserves have already been closed down. Horse racing, some schools .. country walks .. military training .. anglers .. horse riding .. .”[12] On the contrary, what the f&m epidemic revealed was not merely the irrelevance of the pharming industry to the brutish economy but that it positively undermined the brutish economy. What sort of political commentator is it who completely fails to notice that pharmers have triggered off a succession of epidemics and yet regards them as the victims of these disasters?

Naomi and Chocolate Soldiers - 28.3.2002.

Carroll seemed to believe that naomi was a chocolate soldier .. “an article i (Sue carroll) wrote last february in which i referred to naomi cambell’s role as a figurehead for the anti-fur campaign as being “about as effective as a chocolate soldier” because she went on to wear a fur coat in a fashion show.”[13]

Clarissa.

‘Clarissa and the Countryman’ BBC2 4.1.2002

The bbc continues to promote pro pharming and pro-semitic propaganda with another double bill. On bbc2 january 4th 2002 at 7.30 there was ‘Clarissa and the Countryman’ and at 9 o’clock there was ‘a Timewatch special ‘The Making of Adolf Hitler’ just in case any gentile might have forgotten how guilty they are for the concentration camps.

Coleman, Vernon.

Introduction.

Coleman is a medical doctor who has written many books on ooman health and Animal welfare. In the mid 1990s he joined the sunday people, a tabloid newspaper and, for the first couple of years he enjoyed the honour of writing a double page spread. He used the platform to rail against meat-heads and Animal murderers. Although his contribution has now been reduced to only one page he has had a considerable influence on the paper which now devotes a couple of pages to Animal welfare issues. There is nothing similar to this in the brutish media. He’s a breath of fresh air in the dank and fetid atmosphere of the supposedly glamorous world of brutish newspapers.

Prescription Drugs.

Coleman was one of the first doctors to protest about the addictiveness of prescription drugs manufactured by the world’s biggest drug pushers, the multinational pharmaceutical industry.

Bse in Sheep - 10.9.2000.

“Mad cow disease now also affects sheep. A few years ago i saw a sheep die from mad cow disease. And a vet told me that the government was deliberately destroying sheep which had a new version of the disease. I believe the government knows that sheep are affected.”[14]

Scale of Bse Epidemic - 10.9.2000.

“Deaths from the human variety of mad cow disease are increasing alarmingly. If the trend continues, as many as 500,000 britons could die. It is still not too late to limit your risk. First, do not eat beef. Second, don’t eat lamb or mutton.”[15]

Challenging the Tory Government over Bse in Sheep - 7.1.2001.

“For years i’ve been warning that anyone who eats lamb today is asking to die of one of the world’s nastiest diseases. I’ve seen a sheep die of mad cow disease. How long do we have to wait before the government puts the public before farmers and finally admits the truth?”[16] The mundi club has repeatedly stated that what thatcher did for the bseef industry, mcblair has done for the Sheep industry.

Cancer Research Campaign’s Criticisms of Coleman - 30.1.2001.

Coleman’s writings have attracted a considerable range of hostility. When he set up a website to publicize his ideas he attracted the antipathy of the medical profession. A journalist took the opportunity to write an article about the matter, “Celeb doctor vernon coleman’s latest web venture has been branded “scary, frightening and wrong” by the cancer research campaign. www.immunesystem.co.uk offers advice on fighting infection and staying healthy, the same sort of maverick stuff that’s earned the doc millions. But his views on cancer take a more sinister turn. He claims the medical industry is sacrificing the lives of thousands of cancer sufferers by offering ineffective treatments simply to line the pockets of drug companies. (Surely not - how could anyone think such a thing). The crc believes this is seriously dangerous. “It’s awful to think that someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer reading this. The information is wrong. The whole thing is frightening,” said a spokesperson. Another worrying aspect to the site is the endorsement it boasts from the european medical association (no, we’d never heard of it before). And it’s here that our investigation took an odd twist. When we called a spokesman for the ema, dr vincenzo costigliola in brussels, he denied his organization had endorsed immunesystemco.uk. Bizarrely, when we put this to dr coleman, he rubbished the statement - and revealed that he himself is president of the ema. Dr coleman told us he didn’t see anything duplicitous about his site claiming endorsement from an organization of which he is president - and not revealing the link.”[17]

Matt kelly is a columnist for the mirror and writes about new computer/internet technologies. He has a predilection for finding ways of making jokes out of the deaths of Animals. So according to kelly, coleman’s views are maverick and sinister. It is possible that mi5 might be feeding kelly with information as part of their general attack on the Animal rights movement. Mi5 have been working with various rural alliances in order to protect the interests of the pharming fraternity during the bse and foot and mouth epidemics which exposed the appallingly degenerate practices being carried out by the pharming industry. Kelly obviously failed to read the mirror’s tv programme guide for a programme on bbc2 broadcast the same day as his article appeared in the mirror. The programme concerned a financial director in a brutish biotechnology company who’d managed to obtain vast sums of money from investors in the pensions industry by claiming scientists working for his company had created two magical bullet drugs that could eliminate cancer. Sure the drugs may have worked in the confines of the test tube but obtaining vast sums of money from people in the belief they would eradicate cancer in oomans is surely a bit speculative. Medical companies are always publicizing revolutionary new drugs that work on Animals but never work on oomans.

Coleman’s Green Limitations - 21.1.2001.

It’s a bit dubious calling coleman a green since his work is almost exclusively concerned with ooman health and Animal rights. He is one of those departmentalized thinkers who has either failed to incorporate environmental ideas into his general outlook on life or perhaps even harbours opposition to them. One of the main reasons he might oppose environmental issues is his love of cars - in particular rolls royces. It is easy to assess just how far down the motorway he’s travelled when he joins in the perennial motorist moan about speed cameras, “In my view speed cameras do little or nothing to improve road safety. On the contrary, i suspect they cause far more accidents than they prevent.””[18]

Collingridge, Vanessa.

The Spread of Bse in France.

Collingridge presented two reports about bse for trevor macdonald’s ‘Tonight’ programme. The first was about what is believed to be the first case of the vertical transmission of bse-cjd from a mother to her baby. The second was about the spread of bse to france. It might have been thought that, after cuddling the baby suspected of having bse-cjd, she would be very wary about the disease in brutland. Quite amazingly, however, she extols the safety of brutish beef (even though there have been no tests to prove that brutish herds are free from the disease) and highlights the spread of the disease in france not merely to discourage brutish consumers from eating french beef but to create the illusion that, in comparison, brutish bseef is far safer to eat than that coming from france, “With its lolling head and unsteady feet, this Cow is showing the early symptoms of bse. It’s a sight we’ve grown all too familiar with since the disease took hold in britain more than 15 years ago. But this Cow isn’t british. It comes from the one country which still bans our beef and which many believe faces a bse crisis of its own. Of course, you wouldn’t get that impression from this month’s agricultural show in paris. It’s the most important event in the french farming calender. As for bse it’s a case of ‘Crisis? What Crisis?’ (Various french pharmers are shown on film vehemently denying the existence of bse in france). If that’s the official version then going against it can be costly as one french farmer discovered. Camille guillou broke a conspiracy of silence surrounding the problems in france. Camille’s farmed in brittany for 25 years. His herd of charolette has never had a problem. But elsewhere bse is on the march. Camille says, “It’s obvious we see more and more of it. There are more and more cases of this disease. Maybe not the same numbers as in england but there has been an increase in france.” Not only is bse on the rise camille says he knows the cause. While his beef Cattle just eat grass, dairy Cows are also being sold off for meat. They may have been fed with manufactured feed and that feed may have been contaminated. Now others are starting to believe him. Yesterday farmers staged a demonstration (a couple of hundred pharmers) outside a feed factory in the rhone-alp region. They blame feed companies for a new spate of bse cases - 4 in the last 10 days. So far this year nearly 2000 milk Cows have been slaughtered. Feed was the problem in brutland as well. Britain banned meat and bone meal (mbm) for Cows, Sheep, and Goats but it remained legal to export it. Thousands of tonnes were shipped across the channel to france. The french banned mbm for Cattle in 1990 and high risk parts are also taken out but, unlike brutland, the french still feed it to Pigs and Poultry. The Pig feed is made in the same mills, carried in the same lorries and sold side by side with dairy feed. Now the european commission has detected a 4% rate of cross contamination. While farmers blame the feed companies the e.u. blames the french government for failing to implement the proper checks and controls to tackle bse. This (collingridge is waving a sheaf of papers) is what is causing the concern. A 34 page report by the european commission which is severely critical of french efforts to combat bse. Ironically it describes a series of lax french procedures that would be unthinkable in brutland today. (Don’t believe it. This is the cue for a self righteous rant from ben gill of the nfu even though pharmers did more than anyone else to block the testing of Cattle going into abattoirs). The french don’t take criticism kindly - not from a country like ours with 175,000 cases of bse. The official french figure is just 92 but 31 of these occurred last year and are currently running at one a week. When the french authorities find a mad Cow they take immediate action. The farm is cordoned off and the whole herd is slaughtered. But because they’re not examined some experts say this drastic policy actually masks the spread of the disease in france. (i.e. more of the Cows in the herd might have the disease but they don’t show up in the statistics). Despite generous compensation some say slaughtering the whole herd dissuades farmers from reporting cases. Hence the old accusation that french Cows don’t have bse they get jcb. (This is the cue for a second righteous rant from ben gill even though the nfu sat back whilst brutish farmers did exactly the same during the 1990s - brutish pharmers are still dumping bse-infected Cattle in the countryside to cover up the fact that their herds are infected). If that sounds like an old farmer’s tale the e.u. report seems to back it up saying some french farmers report cases with “a certain hesitation and considerable delay.” It’s the first official indication of french under-reporting. Prof jeanne brugere-picoux is a world authority on bse. She says some farmers may send off suspect Cows to the abattoirs rather than notify the authorities. In a high security installation on the outskirts of paris, scientists are developing a new test for bse. A measure of how seriously they take the problem they’re planning to screen 40,000 french Cows. If the disease is currently going undetected it may be slipping into the food chain. This week the e.u. called for compulsory random screening and it wants france to tighten up its procedures. If the e.u. has got it right it’s an extremely embarrassing blow to the french government which has taken the moral high ground in illegally banning our beef on the grounds of food safety. Back home this week saw a royal charm offensive aimed at convincing europe’s top chefs that british beef is safe. Charles windsor states, “You will not find i think better beef in the world than here in brutland.” Convincing their customers may be tougher even if the french embargo is lifted. But when we tried to erercise our rights as consumers things weren’t so easy. Last year’s ‘Just say no’ campaign (i.e. refusing to eat french produce) has petered out and while wine and apples are easy to spot the key question is where’s the beef? Our ministry of agriculture knows but won’t tell us - the major supermarkets say they don’t even stock it yet we import thousands of tonnes of french beef every year so where does it go? A part of the problem is labelling. At today’s crisis summit at no.10 farmers asked tony blair for a change in the law to ensure any food marked british is definitely produced in britain. They hope a buy british campaign here will balance the slump in sales abroad. Having the safest beef in europe is not, it seems, enough.”[19]

This is a bigoted report. This can be seen in a number of ways. Firstly, it takes for granted that brutish beef is free from bse whereas french bseef is not. The programme thus seems designed to dissuade brutish consumers from buying french bseef and encouraging them to eat british muck. Secondly, it implies that only french pharmers have tried to hide cases of bse even though there is considerable evidence that it also happened on a widescale in brutland and it has certainly happened over a much longer time scale. Thirdly, it implies that whereas the french are not abiding by e.c. regulations the english are - despite the fact that the e.c’s demand for the random testing of Cattle is being carried out in france but not in brutland. Stating that brutland has the safest bseef in europe is just jingoistic nonsense when the brutish government refuses to ascertain the number of bse-infected Cattle being sent to abattoirs. Fourthly, brutish pharmers spent the first 15 years of the bse crisis blocking consumers’ demands for the labelling of brutish bseef for fear that consumers would refuse to eat their disease-ridden muck and it has only been in the last quarter of 1999 that it has suddenly started demanding there should be labelling to prevent consumers from not being able to eat such muck!

Overall, this report is appalling because it is reinforcing the prejudice that the french government and french farmers are guilty of spreading the disease, whereas the brutish government and english farmers are highly virtuous, trustworthy, and thus blameless for the disease in this country.

Coogan, Steve

Hey something nice to write about for a change, “Steve coogan has turned down an offer of £1 million to star in an advert for mcdonald’s because he doesn’t like the company.”[20]

Corbin, Jane.

The Pharmers’ Fuel Tax Insurrection - 25.9.2000.

On september 25th 2000, jane corbin presented a panorama programme, ‘Pump Wars’, documentary style on the pharmers’ fuel tax insurrection that had taken place earlier that month.[21] If there was one media journalist who was capable of highlighting the main actors behind the fuel insurrection i.e. the pharmers who’d been blockading industries across the country since 1997, it was jane corbin. A couple of years before ‘Pump Wars’, she’d presented a panorama programme highlighting pharmers’ rent-a-mob, flying picket, tactics during their fight for increased subsidies to produce disease-ridden products. However, in ‘Pump Wars’ she completely failed to mention any of this highly pertinent background - of course, if it had been the socialist workers party carrying out such demonstrations she would doubtlessly have detailed their previous blockading activities as meticulously as she could. Such is her pathetic middle class mentality - she’s also married to a bloke with an interesting career as well. As a consequence, she presented the dispute as if it arose as a result of an accidental meeting at a Cattle auction, between pharmers, hauliers, and motorists, who spontaneously agreed to launch a few protests that then accidentally spread like wildlife into a national taxpayers’ revolt.

Instead of exposing the pharmers’ militant organization and the events they’d been involved in, she has a quiet, amiable, fireside chat with them to try and find out why such nice, normal, bigots who’d never before been involved in anything like this, had suddenly decided to take the rather drastic leap into blockading oil refineries. She mentioned in passing that, “Mr swan (a north wales pharmer and head of Pharmers for Endless subsidies) was first involved in direct action during the bse protests three years ago.” but she believed this didn’t have any relevance to what happened.

Even more surprising was that she neglected to mention that another pharmer she interviewed about his role in the fuel protest, brynle williams, had been involved in the holyhead demonstration in 1997 when a lorry was hijacked and its contents thrown into the sea. The police never found the culprits of this crime - primarily because they’d never bothered looking because they believed pharmers were free to cause as much criminal damage as they wished. What was so surprising about corbin’s failure to mention this highly pertinent fact was that it was mentioned on the bbc’s website, “As vice chairman of the Farmers' Union of Wales, Mr Williams also helped set up the more militant Farmers for Action. And he was instrumental in organising mass demonstrations at Holyhead in north Wales two years ago over meat imports."[22] To have done so would have undermined the case she was making that pharmers were only incidental to the fuel protests and that pharmers hadn’t deliberately provoked the fuel tax protests as a means of putting more pressure on the government to provide pharmers with more subsidies.

Notice that brynle williams was a member of the national pharmers union. Now the last thing this very august, prestigious organization wanted was to be associated with rioters, looters, and insurrectionists, because they had their own office inside the ministry of agriculture, food, and fisheries, (hereinafter referred to as the maffia) where they wrote out the policies that ministers had to implement. Will williams was another member of the national pharmers union who supported the anglesey looters, “Up to 400 farmers gathered at holyhead and port officials agreed that all trucks carrying beef or beef products from ireland on the three ferries would be sent back. The burger lorry was attacked as it was being re-loaded into the high speed ferry. But will williams, vice chairman of the anglesey branch of the pharmers union of wales supported the action .. “we are supposed to be part of europe but we do not have a level playing field.””[23]

Corbin mentioned none of these highly pertinent facts about the birth of the fuel protest, “As fuel prices rose over the summer, feelings in the pharming community, already high over the agricultural recession, reached boiling point. A meeting was held in the livestock ring of a north wales market town on that thursday evening.” As far as she is concerned, the reason so many oil refineries were blockaded in such a short space of time was due to a spontaneous organization of like minded individuals around the country who were virtually strangers towards each other rather than because, for the past three years, a tightly-knit group of pharmers had become highly proficient at organizing industrial blockades around the country. Instead of showing the way that these leaders were using the network they had built up over the past three years to rapidly organize the fuel refinery blockades she suggested pharmers were just phoning up these people to find out what the latest news was about the dispute! According to clive swan who appeared in the programme people were ringing him up to ask what was going on rather than him organizing flying pickets around the country. Corbin then interviewed another pharmer, richard haddock, in devon, who revealed he’d provoked the panic buying of petrol in the south west by phoning up the local media and telling them the oil refinery in plymouth was going to be blockaded. Quite why he should have done this of his own accord without the slightest proddings from other pharmers was not explored. But he was quite blatant about the fact that he intended to provoke panic buying and he even congratulated himself for having stampeded motorists into emptying the region’s petrol stations without getting out of his armchair. This seemed to suggest that the rumour which triggered off further panic buying a few days after the end of the dispute, was also deliberate.

Richard haddock is an interesting bloke. He’d also got a bit of a history blockading businesses, “Richard Haddock, a spokesman for the militant Farmers for Action group, which was blockading Tesco and Unigate depots yesterday, said: "The blockades will continue until we get a better deal to secure our long-term future."”[24]

It has to be wondered what relationship richard haddock had to brian haddock .. “the militant farmers' leader, predicted Blair will face `a very very rough reception' if he goes to the NFU without an aid package. He also said it would be disastrous news for the `softly, softly' tactics of the current NFU leadership. Haddock, seen as the rank- and-file champion, is expected to be elected vice-president of the union later this week. He said yesterday: `I want the NFU to change and link up the Countryside Alliance, the tenant farmers, the village post offices, the local pubs, the parish councils. As farmers we are only 2 per cent of the vote. If we form a wider alliance, we will be 25 per cent of the vote and a voice that cannot be ignored.'”[25]

The main new insights provided by corbin’s programme were firstly, that one of the reasons for the oil companies’ refusal to act against the blockaders was that they’d tried for four days to get in touch with ministers about the dispute but had been unable to get hold of anyone until monday. No wonder they washed their hands of the matter. Secondly, that P&O employed many of the tanker drivers but made no effort to get them to make deliveries. Corbin showed video footage of prescott complaining that the pharmers didn’t pay taxes on their tractors. She also highlighted the role played by bill morris in getting the tanker drivers to start working again.

On the whole the programme was highly sympathetic to the non-blockading blockaders. She didn’t interrogate them over whether they were blockading the refineries or intimidating drivers. She finished off with a rhetorical flourish mocking the real origins of the dispute, “A group of protestors who came down from the hills and the fields of north wales and tapped into the public mood are not yet satisfied.” This makes them sound like a pack of Wolves about to attack the docile, anti-political, livestock living in urban areas.

Crawford, Cindy.

“Supermodel cindy crawford has abandoned her anti-fur stance now that the rich aroma of freshly culled mammal is again de rigeur in milan and paris.”[26]

Deneuve, Catherine.

At a paris fashion show .. “guest of honour actress catherine deneuve, wearing an enormous fur-collared coat.”[27]

Dicks, Terry.

“The disgrace of cardboard city (in London) should be broken up. Those we should be looking after are those who have been abused at home. Most of the others are scum. They should be hosed out of shop doorways and moved on.”[28]

Elson, Karen.

“But rising young stars karen elson and erin o’connor snubbed brutish opinion to appear in valentino’s show. Karen (had) around her neck was the skin of a fox with its fur dyed a matching shade of grey.”[29]

Fitzpatrick, Michael: Bse is a Figment of a Diseased Society.

To michael fitzpatrick, a marxist critic of capitalist society, bse is not a deadly brain rotting disease but a mere figment of a diseased society i.e. an irrational health scare promoted by people alienated by modern (or is it post modern?) capitalist society. In february 1996, a month before the government announced the first 10 victims of bse-cjd, he wrote, “Public concern about bse spreading to humans (in the form of creuzfeldt-jakob disease, cjd) is the latest in a long line of health scares. The novel feature of the bse/cjd scare, however, is that it is a panic about a disease which does not actually exist. In the increasingly virtual reality of late twentieth-century society, we have a real panic about a virtual disease.”[30]

A few months after the government’s announcement this marxist beefy, turned psychic investigator, came to the conclusion that such deaths constituted no evidence as to the existence of bse and prattled on, “The most telling evidence against the link (between bse and cjd) comes from the laboratory of professor john collinge of st mary's hospital london, where experiments so far suggest that the agent responsible for bse cannot cross the 'species barrier' into humans (see Nature, 21/28 December 1995). In these circumstances, the statement that there is 'no evidence' of a link between bse and cjd remains far more accurate than the revised seac/government line, which misleadingly implies a much stronger link than is supported by the known facts.”[31]

Glancey, Jonathan.

In these days when the Animal exploitation is the leading cause of the devastation of the Earth’s life support system for oomans, it is not surprising to find lefties insisting on their culinary freedom - ‘Nobody is going to tell me what i should put on my plate. I also wish to be able to eat what i want to eat ..”[32]

Gorman, Teresa: Reality is whatever I Want it to be.

“British beef is best. It’s perfectly safe.”[33] Gorman encouraged brutish people to eat brutish bseef primarily to whip up support for euro-scepticism even though, at the time, the Cattle Registration scheme had not been implemented making it impossible to say whether bseef had come from a bse-infected herd. The last thing that brutish pharmers wanted was for their bseef to be labelled ‘Made in Brutland’ - that was until the last quarter of 1999 when the pharming industry went into reverse gear and the nfu demanded labelling of brutish bseef.

Green, Emily: The Rubbishing of Harash Narang.

Emily green published an article in new statesman criticizing harash narang, “The only thread remaining between narang and the world of accredited science is his relationship with dr daniel carleton gajdusek, the 73-year-old nobel prize-winning kuru expert. Indeed, in 1987-88, gajdusek did sign three papers with narang - a seemingly weighty validation. Yet, according to his entry in Who's Who, gajdusek has also signed at least another 997 papers. On April 6 of this year, gajdusek was arrested and charged with child abuse. No doubt narang will vault over this credibility problem, bouncing from invention to invention amid the desolation.”[34]

Her article was reprinted on the internet where someone added the following comment about her, “A search on emily green's prior output found that she is a food correspondent (ex-independent, now new statesman) - a big jump from nouvelle cuisine to scientific criticism! -- correspondent comment). Food correspondents don’t become food correspondents by exposing fatal diseases in the meat industry - it might have been thought that even the beefies on new statesman might have understood this.

Greer, Germaine.

At the beginning of 1998 this media personality denounced those opposed to Fox hunting, “Opposition to Fox hunting is hypocritical complained germaine greer in the observer, when “motorists can kill and injure Animals by the million with impunity.”[35] This was a fair point coming considering the number of greens driving cars in the countryside. It seems odd that she tried to legitimize Fox hunting by referring to motorists’ poor driving. It seemed even more absurd coming from a feminist who believes there ought to be more women drivers because cars are the only safe way for women to travel. A few months later, she seemed to have forgotten her criticism of motorists driving irresponsibly and ending up killing Animals on the roads, “Feminist germaine greer was yesterday banned from driving for 14 days after doing 101mph.”[36] That a feminist could support Fox hunting is a little difficult to believe. It’s diabolically wrong for men to look at naked pictures of women but it’s perfectly acceptable for women to go Fox hunting. No wonder feminism is little more than a joke these days.

Gummer, John.

During his time in the tory government john gummer extolled many of the basic concepts and assumptions of the politically conventional. As an underling in the maffia empire he ignored the scientific advice of dr tyrrell, the chair of the government’s committee looking into bse i.e. the government's senior adviser on bse, who stated that, "If you want to be absolutely safe you should not eat beef."[37] Gummer promoted the anti-scientific stance that eating bse-infected bseef was safe.

By far the whackiest of gummer’s ideas about the pharming industry was that there was nothing unethical about turning herbivores into carnivores. Even worse he saw nothing unethical about turning herbivores into cannibals so that Cattle ate Cattle, Sheep ate Sheep, and Chickens ate Chickens. On the contrary, turning herbivores into carnivores/cannibals was natural. To this stupid, arrogant, little crackpot it was vegetarians who were "wholly unnatural".[38] These also seem to be the core values of what is known as christian science - but then given their belief in angels, devils, resurrection of the dead, miracles, gods, heaven, the eternal afterlife, and divine intervention, perhaps this is all too understandable.

Perhaps gummer’s views would have been a bit less unpalatable if it wasn’t for the fact that, "The minister of agriculture, john gummer, is to be reprimanded by mps over his failure to disclose more than £2,000 of work done at his suffolk home by brutland's biggest meat company, hillsdown holdings."[39] Seems like gummer was onto a nice little earner there - pity other people had to pay the price for his cosy relationship with the Animal exploitation industry. This was just the sort of hypocrisy that people had come to expect from devout, middle class, god-fearing, church-goers.

Gummer’s understanding of environmental issues was no less perverse, "Mr gummer told the briefing in bonn that the disposal of brent spar .. would not harm the environment. He said there had been 121 north sea rigs for disposal, but only one so far was being disposed of in the atlantic. The rest were for land disposal. The other 280 or so rigs would be dealt with on a case by case basis. The shell rig would not be the only one to be sunk at sea."[40]

However, ever since the trashing of the tory party at the 1997 general election, gummer has started resurrecting himself (only politically of course) as an environmentalist and has done a lot of valuable work emphasizing the dangers of global burning. He’s made a remarkable transition from an anti-environmentalist buffoon to someone who is now at the forefront of institutional political protests against environmental destruction. But he still doesn’t know what he’s talking about, “Outside the London (bse) inquiry John Gummer said, “I eat significantly more beef now.””[41] Like many other greens, he just doesn’t seem to appreciate that the Animal exploitation industry is the biggest cause of global burning.

Handley, Richard.

One of the leaders of the fuel tax protests in brutland in september 2000 stated, “The greens and us have a lot in common. We couldn’t agree on fuel prices but did on everything else.””[42]

Hawking, Stephen.

“Scientist stephen hawking said yesterday he feared a natural disaster could wipe out the human race with a millennium. Dr Hawking said humanity could only guarantee its survival by settling on other planets. He said, “I am worried about the greenhouse effect. Earth is the most suitable planet in the solar system. But unless the human race spreads into space, i doubt it will survive the next thousand years.””[43]

Hoey, Kate

“Sports minister kate hoey sparked anger last night by attacking the post-dunblane ban on handguns.”[44]

Jenkins, Simon.

Taking Measures to Combat Bse is Scientific Terrorism - but anyone smoking a few Joints is a total risk to health.

Simon jenkins believes that measures to combat bse are akin to scientific terrorism, “You will recall that bse led to one of the worst outbreaks of mad-politician disease in 1995-97. Nobody today should need warning to be cautious. The outbreak followed a tiny number of cases of human cjd, which had been tenuously linked to bse in cattle. (oh dear, oh dear). Bse was caused by polluting cattle feed with infected cow tissue, a practice stopped some years earlier. Twenty-seven deaths have been attributed to cjd, many fewer than to such food poisons as E. coli or salmonella which we seem to take in our stride. Yet as a result of the resulting hysteria, and with continental farmers eagerly in the van, the beef industry was devastated. Tens of thousands of cattle were fed to power stations and some £5 billion of public money was squandered. The root cause was a group of scientists changing an "inconceivable risk" of contracting cjd from eating beef (in 1995) to a "very small" one (in 1996).”[45]

Jenkins devalued the threat posed by bse by regarding bse-cjd as being less important than outbreaks of e. coli or salmonella ‘which we take in our stride’. It was quite true that (at that time) more people had died from food poisoning or meningitis than from bse-cjd, at that time only 27 people had died from bse-cjd, but there was no way of knowing prior to the emergence of the disease how many people would die. The threat posed by bse was its potentiality for causing huge numbers of deaths - which is completely different from food poisoning cases. As of march 2002, the number of those dead or dying from bse-cjd is 116. Secondly, comparing bse to food poisoning cases shouldn’t be used as an opportunity to dismiss bse but to justify severe measures to curb outbreaks of food poisoning. Jenkins seemed to be far more concerned with heaping subsidies onto pharmers than taking drastic measures to curb bse and food poisoning.

Jenkins’s mathematics was so appalling he verged on the statistically illiterate, “Even at the height of the scare, the risk of any Briton ever catching cjd from beef was put at between one in 50 million and one in a billion, surely the bottom of any Richter scale of danger. In which case, the risk now of catching cjd from sheep which "might" have inherited bse from some leakage into flocks years ago would defy even the most fantastical risk theorist. Seac had told the Government's Chief Medical Officer that there were "no grounds" for taking action on sheep.”[46] It might well be true that the odds of anyone catching bse-cjd when eating a portion of bseef were one in a billion but when, at the time, 27 people out of a population of 50 million had already died from the disease such a statistic was bordering on the misleading. To argue that the risk of catching bse-cjd from a portion of bseef was one in a billion suggests it is virtually impossible for an individual to contract the disease but when 100 million portions of bseef are being consumed every week then the odds of people contracting the disease seem much greater. If a person eats one portion of bseef they have a one in a billion chance of contracting bse-cjd. If they eat two portions of bseef they have a two in a billion chance of contracting bseef or, in other words, one in 500,000,000. Given that in a year a person might eat 200 portions of bseef a year then the odds are reduced to one in five million which is not such a long shot by any means.

Keighley, Rev David.

“A vicar is to hold a public “last supper” in protest at food laws. The rev david keighley’s £12.50 feast near st austell, cornwall, will feature beef on the bone and limited-catch Fish.”[47] This is a good example of the way the church is rooted in rural areas and props up rural values. The congregation finished off the meal with a few joints - after all, only a complete and utter sponge brain could possibly believe that bse-infected bseef was less of a threat to ooman health than dope.

Kilroy, Robert.

Political Conventionality.

Throughout most of the 1990s and right up to the present, robert kilroy has hosted an early morning chat show on bbc television. He was a former labour member of parliament who won a great deal of public admiration for beating off a challenge from a militant tendency candidate in a labour party constituency election to become the constituency’s candidate at the 1979(?) general election. Some years later he left politics for a high brow job with the bbc to host an early morning political chat show debating topical issues. Over the years the show has been pushed down the social scales and now deals with ooman interest topics - it is the archetypal example of the dumbing down of many tv programmes. The dumber the programme has become, the more blatant his middle class, politically conventional, bias has become. The show focuses entirely on anthropogenic issues as if there are no other Animals on Earth. Outside his piddling tv studio the sixth greatest mass extinction of biodiversity in the Earth’s history is taking place and a mass slaughter of livestock Animals that even the nazis would have envied and yet, to him, this is entirely normal, natural, and without the slightest moral concern. In other words, he’s a good example of the banality of evil.

Debate on the Fuel Tax Insurrection.

Soon after the fuel tax protests, kilroy’s programme was about the country’s disintegration as it suffered from floods, rail chaos, and fuel protests. A representative from david handley’s ‘Pharmers are Fools’ group must have been aware of handley’s softly softly remarks over the weekend and adopted an extremely conciliatory posture during the programme. In his opening comment he announced a moderation of the group’s demands from a 26p per litre reduction in fuel prices to between 10-15p litre. In addition, he stated the group was now opposed to any direct action because of the suffering endured by many people as a result of the floods. Quite surprisingly his statement was greeted with warm applause as if people, or at least those in kilroy’s little bubble of reality, were fed up with the idea of a second fuel tax insurrection.

The murdoch empire has been riding the dispute as if it hopes to see more fuel demonstrations even though it knows this could spill over into direct action to bring down the government. Amongst the audience is a sky television news reporter. After listening to the apologetic tones of handley’s representative she steps in to try and bseef up support for the eco-nazis before he caves in on any more demands.

The Foot and Mouth Epidemic.

Kilroy did a programme about the f&m epidemic.[48] The audience was a specially selected group of meat eaters, restaurateurs, abattoir owners, pharmers, and a few ordinary members of the public. Kilroy’s primary topic of concern was supplies of fresh meat - a bit of an oxymoron - so he made no attempt to discuss the moral aspects of eating rotting corpses. Vegetarianism was mentioned once when he interviewed a woman who’d decided she was sick and tired of eating pharmers’ over-priced, disease riddled, shit and had decided to go vegetarian. He conjured up a scene in which it might be possible for her to feel confident enough to go back to eating meat. Clearly the thought that carnivores in this country might soon be in a minority was goring to his political conventionality - ‘god help us poor carnivores when we go to restaurants and find meat is served up only in back rooms to avoid upsetting the vegetarians in the restaurant.’ Still, the mundi club must give this politically conventional bigot his due. Yesterday he’d indulged himself yet again in his favourite topic of encouraging people to shop welfare benefit claimants and today he spent some time carefully questioning why pharmers are given such gargantuan subsidies without the public being asked to vote on the issue. However, he didn’t encourage people to shop welfare benefit sponging pharmers who had caused the foot and mouth epidemic. The rest of the programme was taken up by the throat slitting brigade blaming the government for the epidemic. Most of the participants have an i.q. a long way below that of their slave Animals so it’s hardly surprising that most of them came out with endless lies. All that proximity to the land has clearly addled their brains.

Lacey, Richard.

Support for Carnivorism.

Lacey is concerned about bse-infected bseef but he’s not against the consumption of bseef .. “my family eat a fairly normal diet, including lamb and pork, game when we can get it, poultry, eggs, fish and cheese.”[49]

Estimates of Bse-cjd Fatalities.

Lacey has been the leading scientific rebel against the maffia’s bse policies. His estimates of bse fatalities have swung across a broad arc. In the opening few lines of his latest book on bse, he made what seemed to be a quite dramatic reversal of his previous apocalyptic pronouncements about bse, “In the case of cjd .. hundreds or even thousands of britons may already be infected with it, doomed unnecessarily.”[50] However he later argued .. “we are now in the grip of the biggest food-poisoning nightmare of them all.”[51] And he eventually concluded, “If cjd does, as i have predicted, turn into a full-blown plague, it will make the aids epidemic seem like a common cold.”[52]

Contract with Eli Lilly.

As a microbiologist, lacey could hardly avoid accepting contracts from multi-national corporations. His research came up with some dubious conclusions about the increasing number of hospital patients who have developed resistance to antibiotics .. “my department (in the east anglia health authority) was asked to research this issue with funds provided by the american pharmaceutical company, eli lilly. We launched a five year investigation and our findings .. cleared veterinary antibiotics as the main cause of increased bacterial resistance in human. On the contrary, we discovered that the cause was more likely to have been the over-prescription of human antibiotics by doctors ..”[53]

Littlejohn, Richard

Support for the Fuel Tax Protestors.

Has argued we could “do with a bit more civil disobedience” adding: “I’m surprised no one has taken a chainsaw to a few speed cameras or sprayed black paint over the lenses.”[54]

Lomax, David.

Panorama BBC1 ‘In Deep Water’ c.2001

Lomax states that the autumn-winter 2001 floods were regarded as the worst in living memory. Altogether 11,000 houses were inundated. Two months rain fell in two days in the yorkshire dales. The government donated another £51 million but this was spread over 4 years and was to provide financial help to those affected as well as improving flood defence. Yorkshire has a thousand miles of raised river banks to act as a flood defence system. There are believed to be 12,000 miles of flood defences in britain - one third are described as fair to poor. Barlby has now got a new flood defence system after the flood. Some residents claimed they were sacrificed for York. Every home in barlby was affected. Government gives local authorities money for flood defences but they often divert the money for other purposes.

Maclean, Liz.

Condemnation of Animal Rightists - 19.1.2000.

On january 19th 2000, liz maclean presented a ‘newsnight’ article about the pending bankruptcy of huntingdon life sciences (hls) after the national westminster bank called in a loan to the company. Animal rights protestors had embarrassed the bank after showing scenes of Animal cruelty in the so-called research institute. If hls couldn’t find another buyer it might have gone bust. Maclean’s article was yet another example of the appalling abuse which media reporters seem to believe they are entitled to heap upon Animal rights’ protestors. She used the analogy of the hunt to describe Animal rightists’ exercising their democratic right to protest i.e. equating them with Fox hunters. This was not only obnoxious to Animal rightists but was done in a bigoted way as if such people were extremists who had to be condemned. Of course she never used such an abusive tone when talking about pharmers hijacking lorries and dumping their contents into the north sea. What we have here is yet another example of plain, simple class prejudice. The share price of hls fell to a mere 8p not because of what the protestors had been doing but because there was outrage from people who had seen the video footage of what had been going on in that Animal concentration camp.[55] Quite coincidentally a week later the bbc was highlighting the holocaust in which mengele and others, who’d carried out Animal experiments in nazis concentration camps, were vilified in the usual time honoured fashion.

Condemnation of Animal Rightists - 21.1.2000.

Maclean returned to the issue in another ‘newsnight’ article two days later. Her article began with an overpowering low, reverberating sound track depicting something terrible and ominous. The article turned out to be about a spate of 12 letter bombs and the police’s efforts to find out whether there was any connection between the 12 bombs and who was responsible - the suspicion being that it was likely to be the work of people in the Animal rights’ movement. Maclean pointed out that the reason they might be resorting to a bombing campaign was because the labour government had promised to enact a whole range of Animal welfare legislation but had not done so and many Animal rights activists were pissed off with the political process since, whatever party won the general election, they all ended up supporting vivisectionists and their chums in the Animal exploitation industry.

Maclean, David.

Dismissal of Bse-Cjd.

Maclean was a so-called food minister in the early 1990s and was one of the tory government’s most rabid, pro-bseef loons. He dismissed the idea that bse could infect oomans, “Even the most elementary scientist knows that this disease cannot be passed from cow to cow like an infection.”[56] (Oh dear). He believed it was inconceivable that oomans could contract bse because the tories had done everything possible that could be done to prevent the disease from spreading to oomans, “We have so many safety belts and braces on this operation it’s untrue.”[57] (Oh dear and he still ends up with his trousers around his ankles). What is so odious about maclean is that, as far as is known, he has never apologized for his errors and gross incompetence. He doesn’t seem to have expressed any shame whatsoever about his role in the deaths of 116 people. Bigots like maclean should be put on trial for crimes against humanity.

Natural Foods are Dangerous.

During the major government, bse-cjd seemed to have been running amok amongst tory mps who’d been publically consuming vast quantities of bse-infected bseef to prop up the tories’ fantasy that bseef was safe. Maclean tried to elaborate on john gummer’s whacky views. Whilst proclaiming bseef was safe to eat he warned the public that eating natural foods could be dangerous.[58] So there we have it - vegan food is more dangerous than bse-infected bseef. And doubtlessly, Cannabis kills far more people than alcohol and tobacco combined.

Promotion to the Home Office.

Maclean was eventually promoted to the home office where he lunged into the debate about street beggars in the run up to the 1997 general election, “There are no genuine beggars. They are doing so out of choice because they find it more pleasant. Most beggars are scottish and i’ve never met one who politely asked for money.”[59] This statement came after a month long spell of freezing temperatures. He even threatened them with what might turn out to be a weapon far deadlier than phil windsor’s cricket bat, “I always give them (beggars) something - I give them a piece of my mind.”[60] After eating so much bseef, his brain could well have been turning into a foul, diseased organ. It’s hardly surprising that an economic system which generates vast quantities of toxic pollution and lethal diseases should be presided over by a bunch of vile, nasty, revolting little turds such as those in the last couple of tory governments. After the tories had been booted out of office, maclean supported michael howard’s candidacy for the tory party leadership.

Mellor, David

Animal Recycling and Support for Local Slaughterhouses.

.. “animals intended for our table are still being fed bits of other creatures despite the bse disaster. Feeding animal residues to herbivorous creatures is against nature. And now nature is taking a terrible revenge. They have allowed 800 local slaughterhouses to be shut because of e.u. regulations. Why not set up a chain of local slaughterhouses, and if the eu objects tell them to stuff it.”[61]

Ban French Bseef.

“A respected scientist claims the risk of eating bseef infected by bse may be 20 times greater in france than here. So why do we still let french bseef in, while they continue to ban ours? Come on, tony blair, get off your knees.”

Views on Tony Martin, a Pharmer, who fired an unlicensed, sawn off shotgun without warning in the dark at Three Burglars.

Tony martin .. “was a man whose only defence was to fire at intruders who had violated his home.”[62]

Global Burning.

.. “global warming is a bit beyond me.”[63]

Murnaghan, Dermot.

Blaming the Animal Rights Movement for Anorexia.

Dermot murnaghan is a pro-meat news readers on itv. In 1998 he presented a television programme accusing the Animal rights movement of being responsible for causing anorexia in young girls. Rather strangely, however, he seemed reluctant to criticize the pharming industry for causing bse-cjd in young girls which results in them losing dramatic amounts of weight ... before eventually losing their minds. In the programme murnaghan seemed to condone the forced feeding of meat to anorexic girls. So, perhaps girls with bse-cjd ought to be force-fed with prime bseef before they die, eh murnaghan?

News about encouraging People to Eat Bseef.

In january 1998 murnaghan reported as a news item a sales campaign by the Animal slavery industry. The same press release from the meat and livestock industry was also picked up by the mirror, “A £2 million campaign aimed at encouraging bseefeaters to buy britsh was launched yesterday. The drive follows evidence that nearly 75% of consumers prefer to eat home-grown beef. Organized by the meat and livestock commission the goal is to convert people to british beef and put pressure on importers to shop at home.”[64] Now that’s what i call real news.

O’connor, Erin.

“But rising young stars karen elson and erin o’connor snubbed brutish opinion to appear in valentino’s (fur) show.”[65]

Palmer, Jill.

Vivisection doesn’t Involve Cruelty - 23.10.98.

Palmer is the medical correspondent for the mirror newspaper and supplies articles on topical medical issues. She has peddled a pro vivisection line which even the mirror has contradicted. In october 1998 she stated, “Thankfully laboratory animals are no longer treated cruelly. Every research lab is subjected to strict controls and regular inspections. The truth is that only animal research can save many human lives. I believe it is perfectly acceptable to sacrifice an animal life for a human life.”[66] A month later the mirror revealed just how out of touch with reality she was, “Animals are routinely abused in lab experiments in the name of medical research, the mirror can reveal today. Undercover work by the pressure group Animal defenders highlights the terrible suffering by Mice, Rabbits, Cats, Dogs and Monkeys. An investigator secretly filmed for eight months at Oxford’s john radcliffe hospital where tests are done for the university. In one horrific scene, to be screened for mps tonight, a lab technician smashes a Mouse’s head against a bench. He then turns to the camera and says with a grin, “That’s well and truly fucking dead. He won’t get up. I’ve smashed its head in.” Holes were punched in rodents’ ears, and toes and tail tips removed without anaesthetic for easy of identification. Rodents no longer wanted were gassed or had their necks rung. The undercover film, ‘Unlock the Labs’ features seven uk labs and three breeders. Last night an oxford university spokesman promised an internal review.”[67]

Whenever a commentator states that strict controls and regulations are in force to protect Animal welfare you know that no such protection exists. Animals are never monitored by independent people. Animal welfare organizations are never allowed anywhere near such establishments to check on the health of incarcerated Animals. The tories enacted supposedly strict rules and regulations to prevent the spread of bse but, in reality, they were designed to make the public think that something was being done to protect their health, and thus encourage them to eat diseased meat, rather than to stop diseased meat from getting into the ooman feed chain. It is more than likely that if jill palmer was to ask the Animal Liberation front if they have any evidence of Animals being mistreated in brutish labs they might provide her with a few hundred hours of gory viewing - but then leaving behind fantasy land for reality might upset her consumption of bse-infected lamb.

No Bse in Lamb - 8.9.98.

In september 1998, jeffrey almond, a member of the government’s spongiform encephalopathy action committee, publically demanded that the government screen the country’s Sheep for signs of bse. Up to that point in time, only 9 Sheep out the country’s grand total of 42 million had been tested for bse. The government acted swiftly to counter almond’s demand and tried to reassures the public that it was safe to eat Sheep - even though, as was learnt a little later, ‘safe’ did not mean what the overwhelming majority of english speaking people around the world might understand by the term i.e. that it is without risk.

The mirror carried a twofold denunciation of almond - doubtlessly briefed by blair’s premier spin doctor, alistair campbell, who used to be a reporter on the paper. The first is an editorial by the mirror’s medical correspondent, jill palmer, whilst the second is a personal criticism ... by jill palmer.

Firstly, the medical correspondent, “The government stepped in last night to reassure shoppers that British lamb was safe after a new bse scare. The move came after expert prof jeffrey almond urged that sheep be tested for the killer brain disease. He warned: “I think there is a distinct possibility bse is out there in the sheep population.” But the ministry of agriculture hit back: “There is no Bse in lamb. We already have precautions in which the whole head, spinal column, and certain internal bits such as the spleen are removed from sheep. Extra precautions are not necessary.” Almond was speaking after experiments were done where bse was induced in sheep. No real cases have ever been found. Only nine Sheep have been tested for the disease since 1996. Now european agriculture commissioner franz fischler is to ask the e.u. to ban sheep offal from the human food chain.”[68]

The reason that no cases of bse in Sheep have been found is not because these cases don’t exist, but because the government refused to carry out random testing of livestock for bse. This was what passed for scientific evidence in the medical world. Given that the government hasn’t conducted a comprehensive investigation into the issue, it was amazing that a tabloid’s medical correspondent could say that eating rotting Sheep corpses was safe. This wasn’t science - it was complete and utter quackery.

In an article written in her personal statement, palmer went even further into fantasyland and reassured the public that lamb was safe (i.e. not without risk) by stating she would still be eating it, “Yet another food scare is threatening our health. But having weighed up the evidence I do not believe there is a need to panic. There is and never has been a single case of Bse identified in any of Britain’s sheep flocks. Not one of the country’s sheep has Bse.”[69] How on Earth could she possibly know that not one of the country’s 44 million Sheep had Bse when the government had refused to carry out an investigation into the prevalence of the disease!

Quite what her scientific credentials are that entitled her to make such a condemnation is not known. Perhaps she’s been doing some private research into bse all on her own? When the bse-cjd epidemic really starts to bite it’s going to be really great fun watching the procession of corpses who’ve denounced bse over the last 15 years.

Papworth, John

Papworth is another supporter of culinary freedom in the face of geophysiological meltdown, ‘Nobody is going to tell me what i should put on my plate’. It has to be wondered just how stupid people have to be to qualify as a green.

Parsons, Tony.

The Dashing Young Punk.

Introduction.

Tony parsons was a young journalist when he joined the mirror, a tabloid newspaper, after the clear-out of hacks following the death of robert ‘i love the natives which is why i’m stealing their pension funds and sending the money off to the zionist state’ maxwell. Parsons is a working class lad from a council estate, with a talent for journalism. As a young man he was a punk and even went around in the company of johnny rotten in the sex pistols. He’s long since given up those days of spitting at authority. Since he started working for a commercial organization, he doesn’t seem to have been able to do much else than regurgitate politically conventional attitudes. As he’s become more and more successful as a writer, he’s begun moving in higher and higher echelons of society and as that well known marxist once said, “Social being determines consciousness.” Parsons seems to be becoming more and more conservative and if his current trajectory is anything to go by he’ll eventually end up in the house of lords with the aristocratic elite of the country’s social climbers.

Criticisms of the Rural Elite and the Exploitation of Urbanites.

Countryside March - 2.3.98.

His attitude towards the march 1998 countryside march was pretty incisive, “So what exactly was Farmer Giles’ barmy army complaining about yesterday? .. Labour’s planned ban on Fox hunting. If farmer giles’ barmy army declared that they have the right to watch wild Animals being torn apart by a pack of bloodthirsty hounds, the ordinary person would feel scant sympathy for them. But if they fill hyde park complaining that england’s green and pleasant land will soon look like a multi-storey car park in eastern europe, they know that the government has to listen. The real argument is about Fox hunting.”[70]

The Rural Exploitation of Urbanites - 2.3.98.

Parson’s was quite perceptive on the rural exploitation of urban people. It might have been expected that as an urbanite he might have developed some antipathy towards rural life, but to have realized that townies are being exploited by ruralites is still unusual, “Compared to many, the country folk have got it easy. They are subsidized up to their rosy cheeks. Everything from a first-class stamp to electricity is massively over-priced because the townies are easing the burden for remote rural communities.”[71]

The Royals.

His views towards the royal family have changed.

The Royals and al Fayed - 16.2.98.

Parsons had a punk outlook of the royals, “The windsors and the spencers have never seemed more petty, more cruel and more spiteful than in their treatment of mohamed al fayed. Of all the explosive material in this paper’s interview with the harrod’s boss, perhaps the most shocking of all was the revelation that dodi fayed’s father has never received a letter of condolence on the death of his son from prince charles, prince philip, or charles spencer. This is the behaviour of people with no heart and no manners. You do not have to agree with every word he says to believe that the royals and the spencers have treated him like dirt.”[72]

Support for Republicanism - 6.9.99.

Despite his punk youth he’d believed in a constitutional monarchy and it was only in september 1999 that he publically admitted to changing his ideas .. “two facts about the royal family and the british people are becoming clear. We don’t like them very much and they don’t like us very much. Once upon a time i thought that a constitutional monarchy was the best system for our country. Since the death of diana, i don’t feel like that anymore.”[73]

The Royal Sickness: the Chasm between the Monarchy and its Subjects - 3.1.00.

In republican vein, he pointed out the huge chasm between the bloody perverts in the royal family and the rest of society, “Nothing reveals the infinite chasm that exists between the royals and their subjects like our respective attitude towards hunting, shooting and ritualized slaughter. (Princess eugene has recently been introduced to bloodsports). This country will always have something sick at the heart of it while we are represented by a bunch of toffs who see nothing wrong in introducing a nine year old girl to the joys of mass slaughter.”[74] This is quite true. The royal family is a bunch of sick, twisted perverts most of whom ought to be put on trial for their crimes against decency.

Green Issues.

Somehow or other during his punk youth parsons failed to acquire any interest in environmental issues. His attitude toward green issues is basically the same as any other fishn’chip, soccer-loving, lad and his understanding of the Earth’s life support system probably borders on the ignorant. His writings have never shown the slightest understanding of the way the Earth works let alone the political implications of the geophysiological facts of life. When his sprogs grow up, and the Earth’s life support system for oomans is nearing collapse, they might ask him what he did to save the Earth and the most likely answer he’ll give is “Nuffin’. Absolutely nuffin”. When his kids ask where have all the Wildlife gone he’ll probably say he didn’t know there were any. Probably the last thing he’d want is for the hard headed, moronic boneheads working for the mirror to ridicule him for caring about Animals and Trees. For people working in commercial organizations like the mirror admitting to liking Wildlife or Trees would be tantamount to confessing they wanted to be a nun.

The Intellectual Conservative Menopause.

Apparently when males reach the age of forty they undergo a profound intellectual menopausal change which turns them from young people willing to criticize the world in the hope of making it a better place, to old men who praise society’s corrupt social and political leaders in the hope that they’ll offer them some goodies or other.

The Love of Pharmers, the Rural Elite, the Countryside.

Since the menopause, parsons has started singing the praises of pharmers and encouraging a harmony between ruralites and urbanites - apparently the fact that the former are exploiting the latter doesn’t seem to make any difference.

Town and Country Divide - 5.3.2001.

“The foot and mouth tragedy should destroy the barriers between town and country caused by the fox hunting debate. Why aren’t we organizing Farm aid for our blighted countryside?”[75] What’s so ghastly about this is that he doesn’t seem to know any answers to his own question.

Love of the Pharmers’ Countryside - 23.4.2001.

The landowning elite have quite clearly indoctrinated this livestock consumerist journalist into loving the english countryside, “Whenever i travel out of my beloved london, i am always shocked with love by the sight of those green, rolling fields.”[76] He doesn’t seem to show the slightest appreciation that the english countryside resembles a green car park virtually bereft of Wildlife - and the only reason this Wildlife survives is because it provides the toffs with a chance for sadistic countryside pursuits.

Foot and Mouth - 30.4.2001.

It is easy spotting those with menopausal intellectual problems because they’re the ones who prefer to live in a state of sentimentality and gross hypocrisy rather than making the effort to become more rationale, “We all felt a combination of disbelief and revulsion when we saw those burning pyres of slaughtered animals. The cynics may sneer about cheap sentiment, bit Phoenix the calf is a symbol of this animal holocaust. Yes, we are hypocrites. Because if we spent 24 hours in an abattoir, we would all be vegetarians.”[77] Ah, so the slaughter of four million Animals for having a common cold was an Animal holocaust but the slaughter of hundreds of millions of Animals every year is not?

The Love of the Landowning Elite/Colonizers - 20.8.2001.

“The ethnic cleansing continues in robert mugabe’s zimbabwe, where white farmers are being burned and bullied out of their homes. Can we expect a concert in protest from bono and the bleeding hearts in U2? Or harry enfield and all those concerned comedians doing a benefit? No, i didn’t think so. But why not?”[78] The mundi club can’t quite see itself supporting a gig to raise funds for white colonialists who have stolen the overwhelming majority of good pharmland in zimbabwe. His ignorance of what is going on in the world is quite profound. This geophysiological illiterate hasn’t yet been able to join up the dots between pharmers, the Animal exploitation industry, the decimation of Biodiversity, global burning, floods, bse-cjd, white colonialists, global poverty. Of course if mugabe’s troops were actually zionist storm troopers evicting palestinians from their homes then he’d be complaining vociferously about palestinian terrorism.

The Fuel Tax Protests.

Support for the Fool Tax Insurrection - 14.9.2000.

Parsons was a vociferous supporter of the fuel tax protests in september 2000 .. “we have been treated like mugs. What’s surprising is it took this reserved, tolerant nation so long to lose its rag. And if blair, brown and the rest of them do not listen good, they might find themselves writing their memoirs a little earlier than planned.”[79] It is almost as if this was written by a fossil fuel addict who couldn’t see anything beyond the next injection of fuel into his system.

Support for Fuel Protestors - 6.11.2000.

He continued to support the fuel tax protests as if this near insurrection was concerned only with reducing the price of petrol, “Back in the mellow mists of autumn, many of us were delighted to see the fuel protestors give a bloody nose to a government that is often smug, arrogant and out of touch. The weather may have changed but the argument has not. Fuel prices in this country are a rip-off.”[80] Parsons believed the public was less willing to support a second lot of protests but insisted the chancellor should throw motorists significant concessions in order to prevent social chaos. He feared that heavy handed action by the government would alienate the electorate. In his article, parsons mentions only truckers as if he’s completely unaware that pharmers were the leading militants in this dispute. He writes like a zombie who doesn’t have the slightest understanding of just how motorists in this country are boosting the greenhouse effect, shagging the planet, impoverishing billions of third world people, and pushing the ooman race towards geocide. It will be interesting to be around the moment he wakes up to the geophysiological facts of life.

Criticisms of John Prescott.

Having come out so heavily in favour of motorists and a decrease in fuel prices its hardly surprising that he developed an animosity towards prescott who had rendered great service to the environment by slashing the tory government’s road building plans.

Parsons prefers Mandelsohn to prescott - 29.1.2001.

Parsons prefers mandelsohn to prescott .. “who would you rather have sorting out transport - Mandy or that fat moron prescott. The man and the woman in the street do not really care if .. mandelson lies .. Are they any good at their job?”[81] Sociologically, it’s interesting that parsons prefers the aristocratic mendelsohn to a working class lad made good. It’s also interesting that parsons says nothing about prescott’s environmentalism - as if it wasn’t a factor of any significance whatsoever. John prescott is a highly accomplished environmental thinker in comparison to morons like parsons. Environmental illiteracy amongst council house journalists is at an all time high and some of these morons have no idea what role Trees play in the planet’s life support system other than providing the atmosphere with a bit of oxygen.

Parsons slags off Prescott’s Visit to Commiserate with the Indian People - 6.12.99.

Parsons condemned john prescott’s visit to india which was designed to highlight global environmental problems like global burning, “If you got stuck in a traffic jam as you took the kids to school this morning the last thing on your mind was global warming. So what the hell is john prescott doing in india? The government minister for transport has swanned off to bombay to worry about global warming for six days.”[82]

This is an utter disgrace. It not merely reveals parson’s disinterest in global burning it shows an appalling ignorance of the damage being caused by global burning and his paltry level of compassion for the victims of climate change - prescott was visiting india to commiserate with the indian government, and the indian people, because a couple of weeks earlier 27,000 people had died in a global burning disaster which brutland had helped to trigger. To compare the annoyances of rich people sitting in cars to the mass slaughter of poor people precisely by the idle rich sitting in their cars is reprehensible. It’s amazing that parsons contributed to this disaster in india and yet such is his stupidity that he completely failed to appreciate his contribution to this torrent of death. What an odious little oiky, social climbing shit he is.

Yes that’s right dolly parsons - the floods which are ravaging a number of poverty stricken countries around the world were triggered off by nurds like you.

Taking Action on the Environment is unrelated to action on Transport - 23.10.2000.

Parson’s seems so addicted to his car and low petrol prices that he continued slagging off prescott - even in the middle of global burning floods that hit the country! “What I don’t know is how john prescott has managed to keep his job for so long. I don’t know how prescott is doing with the environment or the regions, but he doesn’t seem to be making much of an impact on transport. This man is just not bright enough to be looking after transport.”[83] As if transport policies have no impact on the environment! October had brought some pretty unusual storms to brutland which flooded a number of areas and motorists weren’t able to move not because they couldn’t afford petrol for their cars but because the roads were flooded by global burning.

The Puerile Moron Moaning that the Trains aren’t running on Time - 30.10.2000.

At the end of october parsons wrote an article about the failure of trains to run on time. His main concern after the bse inquiry, the october storms, the pharmer-led fuel protests was that the trains weren’t running on time. Was it surprising that the shower of shit running the country’s pharming industry were at the time engaged in bed and breakfasting with their Sheep which eventually led to the foot and mouth epidemic. Perhaps if commentators like parsons had spent more time complaining about the travesties committed by the country’s pharmers then it might have been possible to have avoided such a disaster in which four million Animals were slaughtered for having a common cold.

Patriotism.

Parsons’ increasingly conservative outlook becomes manifest in his expressions of patriotism.

26.12.2000.

“Damp, violent, and infuriating at times, but in the end still the best little country on the planet.”[84]

19.3.2001.

“If any country in the world has a right to puff up its chest with pride, it’s dear old england.”[85]

The Euro - 26.11.2001.

“It doesn’t matter when tony blair has his referendum on the euro, because the british people will never vote for it. This country is more genuinely multi-racial than anywhere in euro land.”[86]

Social Issues.

Support for Capital Punishment - 24.7.2000.

“Nothing that anyone can say will ever make me change my mind about one fact - the killer of sarah payne has lost his right to live.”[87]

Racism - 18.12.2000.

“William hague has played the race card and got it horribly, embarrassingly wrong. Hague suggests that black criminals are getting away with murder, mugging and the rest of it because the police are frightened of appearing racist.”[88] The politically correct argue that the large number of black males who are yardie members and have come over to this country from the caribbean have nothing whatsoever to do with the sudden explosion in the number of hit and run shootings, the spread of drugs, the crack trade, or one parent families. In the real world, the police established the black on black shootings’ squad because most of those being gunned down across the country were black. Parsons prefers to believe that those wielding the guns were actually members of the black and white ministrel show - white males with black face paint.

Women acting Like Men - 5.3.2001.

Parsons talks about the increasing numbers of loud mouthed, bingeing women, “And their braying, boozy voices brought home with a vengeance the undeniable side effect of thirty years of sex wars. Young men have become more like girls and it has been good for them. Young women have become more like lads and it has been a disaster for them. How have boys become feminised? I would say the big change from my day is that they can now be friends with members of the opposite sex. How have girls gone geezer? By taking on all the worst aspects of old-school male behaviour. Here’s the real reason that our youngsters are the league champions of alcohol abuse. The numbers are soaring because now the girls get smashed too.”[89] These are interesting points. Its doubtful that men are becoming more feminine - its more likely that males are becoming increasingly macho because newly liberated women are more interested in macho men than their lesser belligerent counterparts.

Single Males - 16.7.2001.

Parson’s points out a new social phenomena but doesn’t quite seem to have connected it to feminism .. “new research shows that, these days, bridget jones is just as likely to be brian jones. The number of single men living alone is going through the roof. There are now three times as many young male singles than there were 30 years ago. More than 10% of british homes are occupied by a single man. Brian jones is happy with a well thumbed copy of a glossy men’s magazine. Brian jones is far more likely than a married man to have problems with drink, drugs and dodgy health. Because of his sedentary lifestyle and lousy diet, brian is likely to be obese.”[90]

The Advertising World - 20.8.2001.

Parsons makes some interesting points about the advertising world, “There are plenty of men who are uncle toms - ready to sell out their own sex to ingratiate themselves with women. This includes every man in the advertising world which pumps out continuous propaganda about sad dads, bad lads, and useless men. Every man in the advertising world is a quisling, a traitor, a judas to his gender. For decades, perhaps centuries, there was one law for men and another law for women. Now the change has come, brought on not so much by the rise of feminism as the decline of manly virtues.”[91] It’s a shame he doesn’t investigate the composition of those in the advertising world - as if they are all men and as if all that women really wanted was a white man willing to slag off other men.

Multi-Racialism.

“It doesn’t matter when tony blair has his referendum on the euro, because the british people will never vote for it. This country is more genuinely multi-racial than anywhere in euro land.”[92]

The Environment and Animal Rights.

Cruelty towards Animals - 1.2.98.

Parsons has some more sensible views on limited areas of Animals rights. He despises cruelty towards Animals but, as has already been noted, all that this involves is the cruelty that might be seen outside the concentration camps. In february 1998 he stated, “Mary chipperfield was found guilty of 12 charges of cruelty and her husband roger crawley of one. But whatever happens to these creeps, the culture of cruelty will remain until we ban animals from the big top. There are around 20 travelling circuses still touting their cruel stupid entertainment around the country.”[93] It has to be wondered since his conversion to the pharming industry whether he holds such views.

Paul McCartney - 23.10.98.

Parsons perpetuates the myth that mccartney supports Animal experiments, “Mccartney has reluctantly come to the conclusion that the testing of medicine on animals is an unfortunate but necessary evil.”[94] Parsons’ statement about Animal experiments seems more like a cliché than an opinion developed after a careful study of the issue. Anyone with the slightest bit of common sense ought to appreciate that experiments on Mice are completely irrelevant for predicting what will happen when it comes to oomans. They say that oomans are more intelligent than Animals but you only have to listen to consumer livestock droning out their clichés about Animal experiments to realize this is a joke. Language is just a tool oomans have developed for deluding themselves they are more intelligent than Animals. If oomans are so intelligent then ‘ow cum they’re devastating the Earth’s life support system? If oomans are so great then ‘ow cum there are hundreds of thousands of concentration camps currently working at peak efficiency all around the Earth?

Wildlife - 4.9.2000.

Parsons mentions the world wildlife report on endangered species. “Creatures under threat because of all the coal, gas and oil we burn for energy include the ...”[95] This was one of the few occasions when he seems to have been aware of the geophysiological implications of petrol - not that it made the slightest bit of difference to his views when the fuel tax protestors struck.

Global Burning - 26.12.2000.

Brutland suffered from a number of floods during autumn-winter 2000-2001 but parsons failed to recognize either that pharmers were responsible for the floods or that they were boosted by global burning, “The global temperature might be changing but ultimately the british were not. This was still the britain that you remembered from childhood. Damp, violent, and infuriating at times, but in the end still the best little country on the planet.”[96] He’ll still be pumping out this patriotic nonsense when Earth’s life support system starts collapsing around his ears. The fact that brutland absorbs only 1.4% of its Carbon emissions doesn’t seem to bother him in the least.

Conclusions.

There are greens who believe it is possible to change public opinion about environmental issues through reason alone but given parson’s type of mentality it is transparent that it is impossible for greens to get through to such oomans. It is difficult to understand why people like parsons have sprogs when they have such a total disinterest in and ignorance about the deteriorating condition of the Earth’s life support system. Let’s hope his child one day exacts revenge on him for this.

America’s View of Brutland.

Brutland - 11.6.2001.

Parsons reported that .. “America sees britain as a land that is sick, ailing, and contaminated.”[97]

Brutland - 17.7.2001.

“Truly, what a docile bunch we british must be to allow hollywood to spoon-feed us a piece of glossy garbage like mel gibson’s ‘The Patriot’ Heaven knows we are accustomed to seeing tinseltown portray the brits as a bunch of sadists, rapists, bullies, braggarts and mincing woofters.”[98]