The Cows Coming home to Roost

A review of Stephen Dealler 'Lethal Legacy. BSE - the Search for the Truth' Bloomsbury London 1996 pp.307. This review was completed in november 1996 and was published, in an edited version, in greenline magazine.

Stephen dealler's book 'Lethal Legacy' significantly changes our view of the spread of bse. The first case of bse is suspected to have appeared in april 1985.[1] The disease then seemed to spread rapidly through the country's Cattle herds (not forgetting the country's Sheep flocks) until it reached a peak in 1992 with 37,000 fatalities. This basic outline of the course of the disease makes it appear as if the Cow which died in april 1985 was the first to have been infected by the first batch of infected meal along with a small number of other Cows who then triggered off the appalling bse epidemic. When dealler, a public health official, analyzed the figures for recorded bse fatalities provided by the ministry of agriculture food and fisheries (the maffia) a different picture emerged. They indicated the disease was already rampant by the time the veterinary profession discovered the first case and, correspondingly, huge numbers of people must have eaten considerable amounts of bse-infected meat before public health officials even began to wonder what 'mad Cow' disease was and whether it would pose a threat to oomans. The infective agent had spread throughout a significant proportion of the Animal, and ooman, populations before it was realized anything was wrong.

Although the origins of the bse agent are still not known (and perhaps will never be known) the scientific evidence suggests that the disease arose in a single Cow and that this Animal then passed it on to all the other livestock who eventually died of the disease, "There are a great many strains of scrapie known, but each isolate of bse is the same. There can be only one conclusion: the bse agent arose from one case, and this single case has given rise to every bse infection." [2] Given that the evidence suggests that bse started off from a single source it is remarkable that the disease could have spread around the country before it was detected.

Dealler estimates that 4,756 of the Cattle born in the year spanning 1979-80, would eventually have contracted bse and died of the disease if they had not been slaughtered for food. In 1984-5 the figure shot up to 75,582 Cattle and in 1987-88 i.e. before any action had been taken to combat the disease, a whopping 510,405 of the Cattle born in that year would eventually have died of the disease. These figures, and those given below, are considerable underestimates because dealler believed, somewhat optimistically, that he had to interpret the maffia's statistics as conservatively as possible if he was to stand any chance of convincing them of the validity of his conclusions.

As for the ooman consumption of bse-infected Cattle, dealler calculated that as early as 1980 1,007 bse-infected Cattle were sent to abattoirs and then ended up on dinner plates around the country. In 1985, when the first mad Cow was noticed, 38,003 bse infected Cattle were eaten. And, in 1988, when the first measure was taken, not so much to combat bse as placate public opinion, consumers ate 199,593 bse infected Cattle. By then consumers had eaten a total of 436,133 diseased Cattle, "Prior to the offal ban in november 1989 about 440,000 infected animals would have entered the food chain." [3] It was too late to do anything for huge numbers of Animals or people.

It is commonly held (especially by the 40 odd members of parliament who were pharmers in the last tory government) that if there is no bse-cjd epidemic then there is nothing to worry about and everyone can get back to eating beef. What this outbreak shows, however, is that it is feasible, and very easy, for the whole country to become infected by a terrible disease even before the government discovers what is happening and has the opportunity to deny that it poses any threat to ooman health.

It is true that the main reason bse spread so rapidly was because of the recycling of Animal waste into Animal feed but although this practice has now been abandoned there are still other avenues by which diseases can spread through the country's livestock herds - livestock are still being traded as prevalently as before which could help to spread a new disease. Even if there is no bse-cjd epidemic, the Animal exploitation industry ought to be abandoned because it fosters the spread of diseases which could turn into a livestock and ooman epidemic before it is possible to discover the nature of the disease let alone implement policies to combat the epidemic or find a cure.

The tory government and its labour successor claim the disease will die out at the end of the millenium. It is quite true that it is very unlikely that very many new cases of bse will be seen but the disease probably remains rampant in most herds around the country - although what the actual level is will never be disclosed since the labour government doesn't have the slightest interest in introducing a test for the disease in case it cripples the livestock industry once again. It is evident that eating meat is now a version of russian roulette.

If people in this country are lucky to escape a bse-cjd epidemic (and it will be only by the sheer luck of genetics that they will do so) they might not be so lucky with the next disease to sweep insidiously through the livestock and ooman populations. This disease could even be spreading at this very moment. There are a couple of prime candidates.

Firstly, Cow aids, "In 1990, the u.s. administration admitted that a new virus had become widespread in the country's Cattle herd. This bovine immunodeficiency-like virus (biv) is the Cattle equivalent of aids and a member of the same family of lentiviruses." [4]

Secondly, idiopathic brainstem neuronal chromatolysis, "Government vets are baffled by another fatal brain disease of Cattle which has been discovered by scientists fighting the bse epidemic. More than 100 british Cattle are known to have died so far from the mystery illness, which has no known cure. The only other single case was reported in switzerland. The disease, known as idiopathic brainstem neuronal chromatolysis, was found in 1989 - three years after bse was first identified - when scientists examined the brains of Cattle culled mistakenly as victims of bse. Many showed clinical symptoms almost identical to those of mad cow disease. Most of the victims were in scottish herds but at least five Cattle in england have also succumbed - and there may be more." [5]

'Lethal Legacy' is the "personal story" of a campaigner's attempts to persuade the brutish government about the threat posed by bse. The story takes the form of a series of dialogues between dealler, a microbiologist, and whoever it is he happens to be talking to about bse - mainly other scientists researching into transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (tses) of which scrapie, bse, and bse-cjd are but a few examples. This device makes the book easy to read which is no mean accomplishment considering that it is by far the most detailed account of the complexities of the bse saga.

Although written in chronological order, dealler shows little interest in history. The dialogues are interspersed with snippets of information about various aspects of bse. At times the only way to work out when the dialogues are taking place is from the dates mentioned in the accompanying information boxes. On one occasion a sentence starts with the words, "About a month later" but it takes a considerable amount of time delving back through the book to determine the month or even the year referred to.

The focus of dealler's book is a statistical analysis of the spread of bse. In 1993 he determined how much infected meat had been eaten by oomans. He estimated the number of bse infected Cattle; the level of infectivity in each Cattle organ; and then made allowances for the banning of various infected organs. Given that it is not known what the infective dose is of bse-cjd, dealler produced estimates for the number of fatalities at different levels of infectivity. If infectivity is only 1,000 infective units then by 2001 some 33.75 million adults will have eaten a potentially fatal dose of bse. If it is 100,000,000 infective units it could be a mere 17.82 million adults.

In 1994, dealler showed that the continued rise in the number of bse cases after the government's ban on feeding ruminant protein to Cattle was due to maternal transmission. Statistical proof of maternal transmission was thus available at least two years before the tory government was forced to admit the same conclusion as a result of Animal experiments. The tory government refused to make such admission for as long as it could because it meant admitting that its offals ban was a farce.

'Lethal Legacy' is a work of courage and determination. It shows dealler's willingness to lose his job, and even risk his career, to expose the threat posed by bse. Dealler was once a colleague of richard lacey and he makes his admiration for lacey abundantly clear. Dealler is certainly a character. At a meeting to discuss tses held at the royal society in london in september 1993, he displayed a poster showing the number of bse-infected Cattle the brutish public had eaten. (p.164). That takes guts.

His political naivety, however, is equally striking. He had great expectations of change in november 1995 when 'world in action' exposed bse's threat to humans, "The programme was to be the sinking of MAFF's 'Don't worry about it' position on BSE ..." (p.238). He expected changes following the announcement in march 1996 that there had been 10 bse-cjd cases. But, if anything, the government became even more entrenched against combatting bse than it was before the bse-cjd announcement. Dealler watched 'world in action' exposing the remorseless lies of the chief veterinary officer, keith meldrum, in the company of a number of junior doctors and quotes one them as saying meldrum's reputation "must be in tatters". This is quite true - but meldrum's still in office and still denying bse poses a threat to oomans.

When looking for allies to publicize his ideas dealler turns to, of all places, the church - as if substantial proportions of the clergy, especially those in rural areas, aren't up to their necks in defending the practices of the pharming community. Dealler exudes huge confidence that he could change the tory government's mind even though it had shown an implacable unwillingness to do anything other than protect pharmers' profits. Despite the systematic lies and deceptions that politicians, pharmers, veterinarians, scientists, and journalists, etc, have used to try and cover up this disease he believes there are no villains. Criminal free crimes.

Dealler doesn't seem able to understand the lengths to which the tory government would go to protect their vested interests. He can't quite bring himself to face up to the reality that these seemingly decent, reasonable, civilized people are eco-nazis. These modern day monsters, including blair/strang and the rest of the labour party, are perfectly willing to sacrifice huge numbers of people if it is deemed necessary to protect the beef industry which exists in its current form only because the tory government forks out huge welfare payments to over-privileged tory scroungers to export beef and then tops this up with payments for sitting on their backsides doing nothing. Dealler is a decent and honest person. But he shows a virtual inability to face up to the sheer off-camera nastiness of the people defending the beef industry.

If the country's beef elite were decent and fair minded people then, after all the evidence that has been accumulated about bse since march 1996, they would admit they had been wrong about the disease and that, even if nobody else dies of bse-cjd, the country had been extremely lucky to escape a genetic wipeout. They would, however, take decisive action to prevent another epidemic. But, of course, they won't. They continue to villify those who want action to be taken. It is now an undeniable fact, not mere speculation such as that about a nuclear winter generated by nuclear war, that a disease generated by the Animal exploitation industry can sweep across the country before anyone knows about it. It is just a question of time before the mass murder of Cows, Sheep, Pigs, and even Chickens, comes home to roost.


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BSE Facts

A review of Brian J Ford 'BSE: The Facts' Corgi Books London 1996.

Ford is currently the science editor of the guiness book of records and plays an unknown role at the institute of biology. He is a carnivore and the objective of his book is 'to save our wonderful beef industry'. He has adopted a conventional scientific standpoint. He blames politicians for the spread of bse rather than scientists or pharmers both of whom come out of his analysis without too many blemishes. He supports Animal experiments. He makes no mention of harash narang. He dismisses scientific extremists (presumably richard lacey) and criticizes mark purdey's views.

The book was published in june 1996 and regurgitates many of the assumptions prevailing at the time. He believes bse is confined to specified offals; he dismisses the maternal transmission of bse - both of which have since been shown to be wrong.

The work contains a number of interesting revelations about the science of bse. Firstly, that the new disease in oomans is more like kuru than cjd; secondly, that bse may have come from Cattle rather than Sheep; thirdly, he cites experiments that Sheep may have caught bse - which the brutish government has since acknowledged. Most other matters are dealt with in a cursory manner - the brutish pharm industry is not explored except to state that it is the country's biggest industry.

There are occasions, however, when ford seems to suffer from a little meat madness. He argues that vegetables are dangerous to eat [6] ; a vegetable diet is not natural for oomans [7]; and, Cattle are naturally carnivores. [8] He continually criticizes the poor standards of livestock welfare in europe which sounds somewhat bizarre given that europe isn't currently submerged by a tidal wave of bse cases. No sooner has meat and bone meal been banned from pet food than he's suggesting it should be used again.

This author is so brilliant he's worked out the risk of oomans' eating beef. The argument goes as follows: the annual rate of bse-cjd cases is 6 per year. There are 58 million people in brutland, half of whom eat beef. "This means that the chances of having contracted the disease is about one in five million." [9] No wonder this country is revered around the world for its profound intellectual standards.


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'Mad Cows'

A review of Bettina Lerner's programmes on bse, BBC2 Horizon 1996.

The 'horizon' series exploring scientific issues used to be a flagship for scientific documentaries on television but its two-part edition on bse, written and produced by bettina lerner, turned out to be another example of commentators refusing to face the facts about bse. This cowardice has almost become a disease in its own right amongst the brutish scientific elite which thereby exposes the level of political corruption and intellectual decadence amongst the countries most respected scientists.

Whilst the 'horizon' programmes covered most areas of the subject in a thorough and credible fashion it failed on a number of major issues. Firstly, lerner couldn't quite bring herself around to pointing out that the disease may be found in Cattle blood and that, as a consequence, people are still eating bse infected meat. Although she mentioned this was a possibility she then proceeded to ignore the issue and focus exclusively on the way in which the disease travels from the gut to the brain and on the obstacles it encounters en route, "The prion has to make a tortuous journey through the body to get from the gut to the brain. There are many obstacles in the way before the disease gets to the brain." [10] At one point a scientist working in zurich outlined the course taken by the disease. He stated that it starts off from the gut, then gets into the spleen ("which is somewhere around here" the film shows him pointing to a part of his trunk) then probably the peripheral nerves (which are not currently included in the specified offals ban), then into the spinal column and then up into the brain. No mention of the fact that the disease could quite easily have been absorbed from the gut straight into the bloodstream and then taken a quick and easy path up to the brain through the body's major arteries.

The programme didn't look at the possibility of maternal transmission; nor the related point as to when the disease would die out; nor the bse-cjd clusters, "The clinician in the cjd surveillance unit investigated every patient suspected of having cjd. Martin zeidler said, "I would travel throughout the whole of the country to see patients with cjd as the geographical distribution is completely random." [11] - thereby dismissing the speculation, highlighted in a panorama programme broadcast a few months earlier, about a cancer cluster around ashford in kent where the disease seems to have originated.

There were also a number of examples of verbal downsizing, "For the first two years of the epidemic, Cows dying of bse were slaughtered and sent for human consumption. Their brains ended up in burgers, sausages, meat pies and pates." [12] This is a gross understimate as to the length of time the disease was spreading before the government took any action to combat it.

Secondly, "There have been four more confirmed new variant cases since the announcement in march. This brings the total to 14. There are other suspected cases but these figures are not officially released." [13] This underplays the spread of bse-cjd because in march only 8 of the ten cases had actually died. In other words, up until march 1996 8 people died, whilst between march-november 6 people have died.

This programme exerted little pressure on the government to take further action to stop the spread of bse by banning the consumption of livestock.


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PART THREE: PROPAGANDA

The Fucking Battenbergs

They got hold of a sweet, innocent young lady hardly more than a schoolgirl and married her to a man who didn't love her, who spent the night before their wedding bonking another woman; and to show his adherence to tradition, protocols, and convention, continued to commit adultery - even though he's head of the church of england;

he treated her as a baby machine to perpetuate the throne and once she'd given birth he got rid of her;

he and the rest of the royal family then embarked on a campaign to castigate, denigrate, and humiliate her;

they treated her with callousness and contempt which drove her to belimia;

they told people she was mad;

they drove her to the point of suicide;

they tried to drive her out of the country;

they took her kids from her and sent them away to public school to have the love and compassion beaten out of them;

they taught her kids how to be nasty, brutish and insensitive by bloodying them into Fox hunting and blood sports;

they detested and despised her because she refused to go fox hunting. Even though she detested fox hunting and blood sports they still involved her children in such activities;

they detested and despised her because she refused to wear fur. Mrs battenberg loves her vast collection of fur coats; mr battenberg asks young women whether they wear Mink knickers; and the queen's guards wear Bear skin hats. Diana detested the wearing of fur - she was the world's leading fashion icon who could have had as many fur coats as she wanted but she never wore one;

they opposed the banning of handguns after the dunblane massacre saying that a cricket bat was just as dangerous as an automatic handgun firing off 10 bullets a second and the massacre was not mentioned in the qyeen's speech;

they stripped her of her titles as part of her divorce settlement;

they were so stricken with relief when she died in the early hours of sunday morning that they asked the vicar not to mention her death; they stayed on holiday in balmoral with the union jack flying at full mast; and, perhaps, most obnoxious of all they refused to let her sons come down to london to see her at rest so they could grieve.

And yet despite a decade of being hurt by this cold, horrible, concerted nastiness she survived. They never broke her spirit and she continued to do as much as she could for those less fortunate than herself. Quite how this woman found the strength to endure the contempt of the royal family and the rest of the establishment and yet remain pure in heart is difficult to imagine. Getting stronger and stronger was easy, doing so without steeling the heart was far more difficult.


The Implications of the Monarchy's Barbarism.

The political consequence of the windsor's promotion of blood spurting activities is that it prevents this country from taking a moral lead on a wide range of Animal rights issues because other countries respond to appeals for compassion about their blood spurting activities by stating 'why should we do anything to stop the slaughter when your country supports Fox hunting etc?'. This country has no moral authority over the issues of:-

Bear baiting;

Bull fighting;

Deer hunting; [14]

whaling;

Elephant culling and the sale of ivory;

the importation of fur.

Does this country want a blood sports enthusiast on the throne?


Which is the Worst Family in the Country?

- the dingles?

- the battersby's? or

- the battenberg's?


The Justice for Diana Group.

Our demands are:

* a statue in her honour - preferably in the front courtyard of the buckingham palace mausoleum looking down on the courtyard balcony;

* make 'candle in the wind' the national anthem;

* citizenship for the fayeds;

* ban Fox hunting and all other ritualized blood massacres;

* a recognition of diana's refusal to wear fur;

* move diana's body to westminster abbey;

* privatize the monarchy. If people want to support the monarchy they should pay for it themselves and stop forcing those of use who don't to keep subsidizing these revolting, nasty, over-privileged welfare spongers.



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