2.1.4: The Ideological Suport given to Rural Interests by the Church.

In brutland, the churches tend to support rural, as opposed to urban, values. This is partly because churches are more popular in rural, than in urban, areas but there are considerable historical reasons as well, "The division between town and country has been partly shaped by religious institutions, and in particular by the anglican church .. the anglican church is a rural institution, with its principal see in canterbury, and its cathedrals located in old market towns. It internalized the social structures that prevailed in rural areas, with the landed estate and its village defining the nature and the scope of its mission."[42]

Church supports Hunting and Intensive Pharming.

"The Church of England's General Synod has rejected a call to ban hunting and intensive farming on Church lands."[43]

Church Opposes Ban on Bse-on-the-Bone.

"Tony blair was forced to defend the criminalization of T-bone steak lovers yesterday in an embarrassing row with the church. He said the beef ban would stay, even after the bishop of leicester condemned it as an attack on individual freedom on radio four. The rt rev tom butler .. said the ban was as sensible as a "dinosaur-on-the-bone ban"."[44]

2.1.5: The Global Political Dominance of Rural Interests.

2.1.5.1: Gatt Free Trade.

Perhaps the most blatant manifestation of the way that, around the world, rural interests prevail over urban interests is the limitations of free trade. Since the last world war, huge political efforts have been made to encourage global free trade. All industries have now been opened up to free trade - except one, the pharming industry which continues to receive huge quantities of state subsidies, "Today, average tariffs are a mere tenth of what they were when the gatt came into force. Ministers attending the world trade organization's 50th-birthday jamboree in geneva during may 18-20th can therefore be forgiven a little mutual back-patting. (Countries under the gatt system could escape punishment for erecting tariffs but this is not the case with the wto). The prospect of swifter justice seems to have convinced governments to bring their trade disputes to the wto instead of engaging in tit-for-tat retaliation. In just three years the wto has dealt with 132 complaints .. The wto has been so successful that more than 30 countries, including china and russia, are now queueing up to join. The membership has already grown to 132 countries. Resistance to tariff cuts is strongest in agriculture. According to tim josling, a trade expert at stanford university, tariffs and other barriers on farm goods average a crippling 40% worldwide ... "[45]

2.1.6: Conclusions.

In brutland, pharmers are not subject to local planning laws and thus, unlike those living in urban areas, they can build whatever they want on their land; they do not pay local rates; they are virtually free from environmental regulations; their production methods are not regulated by tough urban-consumer protection laws; and they are not subject to any gatt treaties like all other industries - they are virtually exempt from the rigours of the free market unlike every other industry. Pharmers regard themselves as being above the law - no wonder so many green anarchists want to move back into the countryside where they can escape the collective responsibilities required by urban life.

2.2: Rural Violence against Urbanites.

Rural people exert a considerable scale of violence on urban people. This violence takes many forms, from the production of cancer inducing foods and Animal diseases to the spread of pollution. There are also the raw forms of violence such as when rural people beat up or even kill hunt saboteurs. The political power of rural interests is manifest through the fact that pharmers are legally entitled to produce products which cause a huge number of deaths, destroy the Earth's life support system, and slaughter vast numbers of Animals both Wildlife and livestock. There are very few regulations curbing the activities of these rural barbarians.

2.2.1: The Food Fatalities which Pharmers inflict on Urbanites.

The government insists that all cigarette packets carry health warnings but it does not insist that anything similar is required for meat and dairy products, "We already have laws which oblige tobacco manufacturers to include health warnings on their advertisements and product. There are strong arguments for extending this system to the food industry, particularly for meat and dairy products."[46] The medical profession continually launches campaigns against smoking cigarettes but says virtually nothing about the huge number of deaths resulting from the consumption of meat and dairy products. In the late 1990s this has changed slightly, "In a submission to a commons agriculture committee inquiry into food safety, the british medical authorities says: "The state of food safety in the UK is such that all raw meat should be assumed to be contaminated with pathogenic organisms.""[47] It is the power of the rural elite which prevents the government and the medical profession from acting impartially and imposing strict health regulations on pharmers.

2.2.1.1: Meat.

The consumption of meat and dairy products is one of the biggest killers in the over-industrialized world - second only to lung cancer from cigarettes.

Bowel Cancer.

Red meat causes bowel cancer and kills 19,000 britons a year. .. " over 10,000 people die of bowel and colon cancers."[48]

Coronary Heart Diseases.

The death rates from coronary heart diseases in the u.k. are among the highest of anywhere in the world. Again, excess consumption of fats and sugar has much to do with it."[49] "Over 170,000 people die of heart disease in britain every year .."[50]

Diabetes and Gall-bladder Disease.

"They (fats and sugar) also contribute, when combined with a lack of dietary fibre, to the high incidence of both diabetes and gall-bladder disease. .. too much fat and salt increase the incidence of strokes. In short, many of the major diseases of today are a direct consequence of eating too much fat, sugar, and too little fibre.

Strokes.

.. "over 70,000 (people in brutland) are afflicted by strokes."[51]

2.2.1.2: Milk.

Milk is another major cause of cancer. It may be responsible for the huge number of breast cancers in this country. When people talk about the intake of fat in their diets they usually think about meat but a bigger proportion of brutland's fat intake comes from milk and dairy products, "Dairy products contribute around a third of our dietary fat intake, and meat products about a quarter."[52] This is not surprising given that in brutland the milk industry is one of the biggest sectors in the pharming industry, "Milk production is the largest u.k. agricultural enterprise in cash terms."[53] People in brutland consume vast quantities of milk and milk products, "This country (UK) more than any other in the world is a nation of milk drinkers."[54] The consumption of chocolate is simply another way that the dairy industry has found to encourage people to drink milk.

2.2.1.3: Mass Gluttony: The Obesity Epidemic.

The meat and dairy industry is responsible for the epidemic of obesity in the over-industrialized world which leads to huge numbers of premature deaths, "The chief health problems caused by being overweight are cancer, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, high blood pressure and osteo-arthritis."[55] The reason for this is clear .. "intensive methods of meat production encourage animals to lay down fat rather than lean meat."[56]

Brutland.

"British people are among the unhealthiest in Europe, with 20 million adults - one in two - clinically overweight."[57]; "Over a third of all adults in britain are overweight. The culprits: fat and sugar. "[58]; "Half the population of britain is overweight, and on present trends 18% of men and 24% of women will be obese by 2005. A frenzy of demand is expected when a new 'wonder' slimming drug, xenical, becomes available on prescription at the end of this month."[59]

The United States.

"In the u.s. the entire population will be obese in 35 years."[60]

Globally.

.. "according to figures presented to last week's international congress on obesity .. it is estimated that obesity causes a million deaths a year worldwide, compared to half that number caused by starvation."[61]

2.2.1.4: Fat is a Geophysiological Issue.

The vast consumption of meat and dairy products is the main cause of the destruction of the Earth's life support system. Unless obesity is abolished there is no way of creating a sustainable planet.

2.2.2: The Pollution which Pharmers Inflict on Urbanites.

Pharmers are also damaging ooman health and killing people as a result of the poisons which they release into the environment. The following sections will explore the fatalities caused by pesticides and other pollutants being absorbed into the meat and dairy products consumed by urbanites.

2.2.2.1: Pesticides.

2.2.2.1.1: The Scale of Pesticide Use.

The United States of America and Europe.

Pharmers spray huge quantities of pesticides onto their fields .. "nearly half a billion pounds of pesticides and four billion pounds of fertilizer are spread or sprayed onto farmers' fields each year in the u.s. The figures are higher for western europe."[62]

2.2.2.1.2: The Spraying of Pesticides on Food is Unregulated.

Brutland.

Richard north contrasts the comprehensive efforts in brutland to investigate food-poisoning incidents in retail outlets with the complete lack of effort made by the veterinary medicines directorate to investigate the ill-health caused by the spraying of pesticides, "Yet, despite the potentially life-threatening effects of OPs and other pesticides, there are rarely any investigations on a scale even remotely similar to those carried out for even minor food-poisoning incidents."[63]

The United States of America.

Little is being done to stop the pollution caused by the extensive use of pesticides, "Perhaps the sole environmental area where it is true that the u.s. is doing little is pesticide runoff from farms. Certification of pesticides is tightly regulated, but use is essentially unrestricted. Agriculture accounts for more than six times the number of impaired river miles attributable to industry. In 1992 some 72% of pollution to u.s. rivers and streams came from agricultural chemicals running off farms."[64]; "A long term drinking water concern is that some 43 pesticides have been detected in aquifers around the country, usually in trace quantities that pose no danger. But if trace quantities are present does this mean significant quantities are gradually working their way toward the water table? Pesticides seeping into groundwater have the potential to become an environmental emergency of the late 1990s."[65]

2.2.2.1.3: The Fatalities resulting from Pesticide Use.

Pesticides sprayed on cash crop plantations have caused a wide range of illnesses amongst the cheap labour employed to do the spraying. They also have debilitating effects on those living close to crop plantations, "In lower-income countries, an estimated 10,000 people die each year from pesticide poisoning, and about 400,000 suffer acutely."[66]; "The 'Dirty Dozen' pesticides, now banned or severely restricted in 60 countries, are still being exported from the west to the third world. Half of all pesticide poisonings and 90% of deaths occur in the third world, although they account for only one-fifth of the world's pesticide use. In india residues of ddt are the highest in the world and in costa rica paraquat was implicated in 71% of a group of fatal poisoning cases, and at least 1000 workers are sterile as a result of exposure to pesticides exported from the u.s.."[67]

2.2.2.1.4: The Increasing Ineffectiveness of Pesticides.

Over the decades pharmers have dumped such huge quantities of pesticides onto crops that many of the species they are supposed to kill have become resistant to their toxicity, "Pesticides continue to lose their effectiveness against crop-destroying pests as a result of genetic selection. At least 520 insects and mites, 150 plant diseases, and 113 weeds have developed resistance to one or more pesticides meant to control them. In addition, at least 17 insect species are resistant to all major classes of insecticide, and several plant diseases are immune to most fungicides used against them. Herbicides now account for 46% of world pesticide use."[68] This leads a toxicity war in which pharmers demand even more toxic chemicals to combat 'pests' that have resistant to weaker pesticides. Gradually creatures also become resistant to the new pesticides so that pharmers demand even more toxic chemicals.

2.2.2.1.5: Animal Experiments Underestimating Pesticides' Toxicity.

One of the ways in which pesticide manufacturers get around annoying environmental regulations limiting the toxicity of the pesticides, is by testing pesticides on Animals which have a great deal of resistance to such pathogens. Robert jak's .. "findings suggest that the standard way of testing the environmental toxicity of a pesticide, as approved by the oecd, is ineffective. Before they can market a new product, manufacturers must prove that it is not too toxic to the water flea, Daphnia magna. Byt jak says this species, although easy to use in the laboratory, is unusually resistant to environmental change because it lives in small bodies of water such as ponds, which experience rapid shifts in salinity, pH and other conditions. Zooplankton from large lakes, on the other hand, face fewer changes and are thus much more sensitive to stresses. Jak found that natural populations of zooplankton from lake ijsselmeer were killed by pesticides that had little effect on d.magna. He warns that many of the pesticides on the market may be more ecologically damaging than had been suspected."[69]

2.2.2.1.6: Conclusions.

One of the reasons the regulation of pesticides in brutland is so poor is because the industry which produces pesticides also runs the agency which regulates pesticide use, "In the UK, the Advisory Committee on Pesticides, which is supposed to advise the government on the control of the use of pesticides, is largely made up of representatives of the agro-chemical industry and various academics whose research grants they pay or otherwise control."[70]

2.2.2.2: Manure Pollution Caused by Pharming.

Pharmers' excessive spraying of untreated ooman and Animal manure onto crops and pastureland is dangerous because it spreads diseases and causes environmental pollution.

2.2.2.2.1: Pharmers' Use of Ooman Manure is Virtually Unregulated.

Pharmers spray considerable quantities of ooman manure onto crops and pastureland but this practice is not properly regulated, "In europe and north america, between one and two-thirds of sludge - the biosolids from sewers - is now spread on farmland. In the u.s, france, germany and elsewhere, all sludge is treated before being used as fertiliser. It undergoes various forms of heating, drying, fermentation or other treatments that kill germs - to varying degrees - and make sludge more chemically stable. Britain alone allows farmers to put raw sewage on their land, though pressure from food retailers is likely to put a stop to this by 2002. About a quarter of all sewage sludge spread on british farmland this year was raw .. The water companies .. say farmers must wait three weeks before harvesting fodder or letting animals graze on sludged land, and ten months before harvesting crops that touch the soil and are 'normally eaten raw' - strawberries for example. If the food industry won't buy crops fertilised with raw sludge, farmers won't use sludge. And many water companies are counting on farmers as other disposal routes start to close down. A report on sewage by britan's royal commission on environmental pollution in 1996, and the commons enquiry this year, both .. called for all sludge used in agriculture to be pasteurized, which involves heating at 70C for an hour. Sewage is a valuable resource. Oecd citizens excrete enough to replace 8% of their current consumption of chemical fertiliser - which is made using fossil fuel. Only by keeping faeces separate from the rest of our waste can we realize its full potential."[71]

2.2.2.2.2: Pharmers' Use of Livestock Manure is Virtually Unregulated.

The same also applies to pharmers' use of livestock manure. Although livestock pharmers produce vast quantities of manure, they are not compelled to construct sewage treatment plants on their land to prevent this pollutant from damaging the environment. Pharmers are virtually free from regulations, and certainly entirely free from any regulatory supervision, regarding the dumping of manure on fields even though it is easy for pharmers to apply excessive quantities of manure to their fields which then seeps into the water system. Whilst water companies face a wide range of regulations covering the spraying of ooman manure on fields, the same does not apply to pharmers spraying livestock manure, "With human waste sludge there are rules that require testing and lifetime loading rates for metals. There's no such limit for Animal waste."[72]

2.2.2.2.3: Conclusions: Media Spills and Everyday Spills.

In the mid 1990s, in north carolina u.s.a. a livestock manure lagoon spilled 100 million litres of faeces and urine over the surrounding countryside and caused a massive political stink about the rapid expansion of Pig factories in the state. Whilst this incident focussed the media spotlight on the Pig industry it covered up the less dramatic, but perhaps more serious, pollution incidents that had been going on until that time without public comment, "Don webb, president of the alliance for a responsible Swine industry, says the big spill on the new river was exceptional only because it was easy to photograph. "We have smaller tragedies happening every day. Millions of gallons of hog waste are being sprayed onto fields and allowed to run into ditches. In a week's time, it probably amounts to 22 million gallons - or more."[73]In many countries the pharming industry is in a state of complete lawlessness - pharmers are virtually free to do what they want.

2.2.3: The Diseases Spread to Oomans by Contact with Livestock Animals.

Ever since oomans domesticated Animals and turned them into livestock these Animals have passed on a large number of deadly diseases to oomans. Virtually all the major diseases plaguing oomans have come from livestock Animals. The spread of diseases from Animals continues even in the modern world. Livestock are being raised so abominably by rural folk that more and more Animal diseases are spreading to oomans - which wouldn't be so threatening if it wasn't for the fact that an increasing number of antibiotics being used to prevent diseases in oomans are becoming redundant because pharmers are using them excessively on Animals.

2.2.4: The Diseases Spread to Urbanites through Meat and Dairy Products.

The appalling, concentration camp like, conditions in which livestock Animals are kept means that diseases are rife. These diseases can be passed on to oomans either through direct contact or through the consumption of meat and dairy products.

2.2.4.1: Types of Diseases.

Salmonella.

Listeria.

Bse.

For years pharmers, the maffia, the tory party in the commons, and the pharmers in the house of lords, prevented action from being taken against bse.

Menigitis.

It is possible that meningitis is also caused by livestock pharming, "Britain is in the grip of its worst menigitis outbreak for 50 years. In the past two years the annual number of cases has been around 2600 - nearly double that of a decade ago."[74]

Crohn's Disease.

"A major probe into possible links between milk and a painful bowel disease was ordered last night. The move comes after tests found pasteurizing milk failed to kill off the organism suspected of causing crohn's disease. Up to 40,000 sufferers in the u.k. suffer diarrhoea, fatigue and weight loss every year. Government medics had assumed pasteurization eradicated the organism. But tests suggested it can live on, although at a lower level than in raw milk."[75]

2.2.4.2: The Bse Disaster; The Most Blatant Case of Rural Contempt for the Health of Urban People.

The bse epidemic was the most blatant example of rural contempt for the health and life of urban consumers. The farming industry put up all-out resistance against the drastic actions needed to curb the spread of this disease. They didn't care in the slightest what risk this disease posed to urban health. They were not going to lose money because dozens of urbantes might die as a result of eating their diseased meat and dairy products.

The Disease was Over before it Started.

Only a matter of months after the announcement in march 1996 that there had been 10 victims of bse-cjd, the pharming industry brought about a propaganda coup by convincing the public that the disease had run its course and there was no longer anything to worry about. In effect the bse-cjd disaster last only six months, "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. 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)."[76] It is quite true that more people have died from food poisoning or meningitis than have died from bse-cjd but there was no way of knowing prior to the emergence of the disease how many people would have been affected. The point is that pharmers denial that there was any risk, simply convinced many cosnumers that te disease was far more of a threat than they were being told.

The Refusal to Test for Bse in Cattle.

One of the most remarkable features of this epidemic which has been ranging since 1984 is that no government, whether tory or labour, has made any effort to test Animals for bse because they know the discovery that bse is still prevalent would cause a collapse of the beef and Sheep industries. As far as they are concerned it is better that consumers drop dead than it is to undermine these industries. The labour government put onto the seac committee a known sceptic of bse in order to dampen down the problems that are still emerging from the bse fiasco, "Other members of Seac are more sceptical about that approach. Roy Anderson, of Oxford University, said that he still believed the BSE epidemic was close to its end, and would be at an extremely low level by 2001. He added that Dr Collinge's test needed further validation before it could be relied upon."[77] In this instance anderson, a statistician, is opposing work to find out exactly how much bse is still in cows and dismisses the test as requiring further validation. He has no expertise in this particular field and yet he is telling one of the world's foremost authorities into bse research to go back to the drawing board to do his job properly.

The Subsidies Lavished on Pharmers whilst Bse-Cjd Victims Suffer.

Another of the many incredible revelations in the bse epidemic was the huge subsidies lavished on pharmers to enable them to go on producing diseased meat whilst the victims of this disease were virtually left to fend for themselves without any additional assistance. The following are two case histories amongst the thirty people who have been murdered by pharmers so far.

Pamela beyless suffered the first symptoms of bse-cjd in july 1996. By august of that year she was seriously ill. She came out of hospital to be cared for by her parents in may 1997. "It was a 24 hour job. Feeding her with a syringe and making sure she didn't choke, turning her and exercising her limbs, changing her pads every three hours because we didn't want to risk infection with a catheter, washing her, everything." After applying for carer's benefit for june and with the help of a charity fund .. Arthur estimated he needed another £100 a week to help pay someone else .. but leicestershire county council refused to pay."[78] She died 11th october 1998.

"Betty and Barry hodgkinson told how son adrian changed from a fun loving 25 year old to a helpless and paranoid child in just eight months. Ironically adrian had told his shocked parents, "That's what i've got" as he pointed to film of stumbling bse infected cows on the tv news. Stephen (churchill), 19, spent his final months in a home for old people because local authorities could find nowhere else. The families called for a national flying squad of experts who could help victim."[79]

One of the main reason this country is so vile is because it is run by pharmers who have nothing but contempt for urban consumers.

The Refusal to accept that Bse has Spread to Sheep.

Whilst the thatcher and major governments went out of their way to protect the Cattle industry from accusations about the spread of bse, the blair government is currently doing exactly the same thing as regards the spread of bse amongst the Sheep industry, "UK scientists will add to doubts about the safety of eating lamb tonight, just a day after European Union experts suggested a ban on meat on the bone from British lamb over six months old. In a programme for Channel 4's Dispatches, some members of the UK's scientific advisory body on BSE will warn that it is likely the disease has been transmitted to sheep and "possible" that the disease is endemic among the national flock, even though it has not yet been detected. "Professor John Collinge told the programme: "Given the amount of contaminated feed that was fed to sheep and given that we know that sheep are quite susceptible to BSE by the oral route, it will be surprising to me if some cases haven't happened." He added: "It's certainly a possibility that BSE could be endemic in sheep. It certainly is a worry." Their comments come a day after a European Union scientific committee dealt a new blow to the meat industry across Europe, recommending a ban on sales of lamb on the bone from animals over 12 months old. The scientists also suggested even tighter controls in high BSE-risk countries such as the UK with an age limit of six months on sales of lamb on the bone from animals slaughtered in Britain. Farmers warned that the extra controls had "massive implications" for the industry in the UK. Nearly 80% of lamb slaughtered in the UK is under 12 months old - and up to 90% of it is currently sold on the bone. The main recommendation of the EU Scientific Steering Committee was to extend controls on banned beef offal to the lungs, vertebral column and "dorsal root ganglia" of all sheep and goats older than 12 months across the EU. But commission officials pointed out that the age limit would be redoubled in areas already facing a serious risk of BSE."[80]

2.2.4.3: The Excessive Use of Antibiotics.

The appalling conditions in which most livestock Animals in the over-industrialized nations are reared is making disease rife. The only way to control outbreaks of disease is to continually dose the Animals with antibiotics. Huge amounts of antibiotics are used in the livestock industry, "More antibiotics are used in factory farming than by the NHS but livestock infection continues to spread."[81]

2.2.4.4: The Superbugs being Created by Pharmers.

The antibiotics fed to livestock Animals do not disintegrate before the Animals are slaughtered and consumed. As a consequence most meat and dairy products contain traces of antibiotics. This poses a considerable threat to ooman health. The all pervasive use of antibiotics in the pharming industry is enabling micro-organisms to develop resistance to these drugs. This means that these antibiotics cannot then be used to conquer the dreadful diseases afflicting oomans. The pharming industry is responsible for making vital drugs increasingly ineffective for use in oomans. So, even if the meat and dairy industries are not directly responsible for causing diseases (which they are) they are the main reason why an increasing number of deadly ooman diseases are becoming untreatable, "The growing ranks of resistance fighters could fill a book. The systematic overuse and abuse of antibiotics (soon a $40 billion industry) by reckless microbe slayers means that future generations will be battling super-germs."[82] At the end of the 1990s this problem is growing critical, "Drugs used to boost growth in pigs and poultry are to be outlawed in a human health scare. Nick brown yesterday backed e.u. moves to outlaw the £500 million trade in Animal antibiotics. Four anti-biotics - tysolin phosphate, bacitracin zinc, spiramycin and virginiamycin will be outlawed from july."[83] The fact is however that many drugs are fed illegally to Cattle. There is a huge black market in antibiotics for the pharming industry.

2.2.5: The Poisons Spread to Urbanites through Meat and Milk Products.

2.2.5.1: Pesticides.

Some of the pesticides which pharmers spray on their land are absorbed by the crops grown on the land and are eventually absorbed by consumers. In addition, a huge proportion of crops grown in the over-industrialized world is fed to livestock Animals so when consumers eat meat and dairy products they absorb even more pesticides. It is likely that oomans absorb more pesticides through meat and dairy products than through fruit and vegetables because livestock concentrate pesticides in their bodies, "Dairy products are the main dietary source of the highly toxic organochlorine pesticides ..."[84]

2.2.5.2: Insecticides.

Pharmers spray insecticides on livestock Animals or even inject insecticides into their hides and traces of these poisons can be found in meat and dairy products. There have been an increasing number of suspicions that organo-phosphate insecticides are responsible for disrupting the immune system of both Cattle and oomans, "Purdey believes there could be a definite relationship between the use of ops and the increased incidence of neuro-degenerative diseases like parkinsons, alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis and myalgic encephalomyelitis (m.e.) etc. One of the real dangers in eating beef or any other meat products is that pesticides and other chemicals taken up by an Animal are passed on to humans in meat."[85]

2.2.5.3: Hormone growth Boosters.

Most livestock Animals in the over-industrialized world are fed hormone growth boosters to encourage them to put on more weight, more quickly, and thus boost pharmers' profits. Traces of these hormones are still present in the meat and dairy products consumed by consumers and this could have caused a wide range of changes in oomans. Just as hormones boost weight and aggression in Animals so the same happens in oomans. It is likely to be a prime cause of hyper-activity and aggression in children. Children under the age of ten years are being affected - boys have hairs growing across their bodies and girls are developing breasts.

2.2.6: The Diseases Spread to Urbanites through the Dumping of Manure.

E.Coli and Hepatitis A.

"The dumping of untreated human sewage and abattoir waste on britain's farmland poses a serious threat to health, experts warn. .. the public health laboratory service (phls) warns that such practices put people at risk from escerichia coli 0157 infection. Phls scientists (say that) the deadly food poisoning bacterium and viruses such as hepatitis A are present in effluent used to fertilize fields housing livestock or growing vegetables. In the hope that most of the bacteria will die off, the sewage is allowed to stand for up to three months before being used as agricultural fertiliser. But pennington notes that no one knows how long the bacteria remain infective. The chartered institute of environmental health is now demanding a ban on the use of untreated abattoir waste on farms."[86]

2.2.7: The Viruses which Pharmers are Releasing into the Countryside.

Around the world pharmers are deliberately releasing viruses into the wild in order to control the number of Animals which they have taken upon themselves to define as pests, "A virus that could wipe out most of australia's Rabbits will be deliberately spread across the country by the end of the month. Australia is pushing ahead with with its plan to release the Rabbit calicivirus despite warnings by two american scientists that it is "playing with dynamite". They argue that the virus could jump to other species. (This virus has already escaped from a laboratory where it was being cultivated). Before the virus escaped, australia was thought to have around 300 million Rabbits, which cause damage costing an estimated A$600 million (about £300 million) a year. The calicivirus has cut the population by several tens of millions already, and pharmers have been clamouring for a more widespread release."[87]

2.2.8: Ruralites Physical Intimidation of Urban People.

Ruralities have also been known to inflict physical violence on urbanites, "The joint masters of a hunt have been fined for vandalizing an animal rights activist's van. Anthony sandeman and philip ghazala were caught scratching a panel of the protestor's peugot, magistrates at hayward's heath, west sussex, were told. The crawly and horsham hunt chiefs were fined £300 each and had to pay £59 compensation to simon wright."[88]

2.2.9: Conclusions.

2.2.9.1: The Dangers that Pharmers pose to Urban People.

Given the fatalities resulting from the consumption of meat and dairy products, the spread of Animal diseases to oomans as a result of the domestication of Animals, the spread of diseases from Animals as a result of the appalling conditions in which they are reared, and the massive pollution caused by the pharming industry, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that pharmers are so intent on making profits they are willing to sacrifice any number of consumers who, in the over-industrialized nations, are overwhelmingly urban people. It is almost as if rural people have so much contempt for urbanites that they don't give a damn whether they kill urbanites or not. Perhaps the most blatant manifestation of this willingness to slaughter both livestock Animals and urbanites was the spread of bse. Pharmers collectively refused to take the drastic measures to curb this disease because of the impact this would have on their profits. As a result of their total unwillingness to act the disease became even more pervasive and spread to the ooman population. Huge numbers of pharmers could see that their Animals were afflicted by this disease and yet they still sent them off to the abattoirs to be sold for consumption. Pharmers were sending diseased Animals to be publically sold off at auction and hundreds of pharmers stood around auction rings up and down the country watching these Animals stumbling around the ring and none of them demanded that these poor Animals should be put out of their misery and prevented from entering the food chain. After the government introduced compensation schemes for pharmers with diseased Animals, there was a huge increase in the number of pharmers declaring their Animals had the disease. Virtually all pharmers were responsible for allowing diseased Animals to be consumed. Pharmers were determined they were not going to lose money or lose their jobs as a result of this crisis. Because of the threat to their livelihoods, pharmers completely refused to take bse seriously and they treated with contempt and anger anyone who suggested this disease could spread to oomans. They were so contemptuous of consumers they wouldn't even entertain the possibility of this threat. Pharmers are Animal murderers. They have become used to treating sentient beings with contempt and that is the way they look upon consumers i.e. urban people.

The close proximity of the people living in urban areas make them far more vulnerable to diseases than their rural counterparts and yet the main source of virtually all the major ooman diseases comes from the countryside. Thus urbanites have to be careful of ruralites not merely because ruralites trigger off diseases but because urbanites live in vulnerable conditions.

2.2.9.2: Government Supports Pharming Interests.

In the mid 1980s it was estimated that in brutland every year over 170,000 people died of heart disease; over 70,000 were afflicted by strokes; and over 10,000 people died of bowel and colon cancers. The response of the tory government to this carnage was to dismiss it, "So far the government's reactions to the national advisory committee on nutritional education and the committee on medical aspect of food policy reports have been pitiful."[89] Far from wanting to combat this health epidemic the tory government went out of its way to make things worse. The government's reaction .. "to the (e.c.) butter surplus was similarly irresponsible: the cut price xmas butter scheme helped to offload some 40,000 tons of urplus - or, put more bluntly, it encouraged people, especially yh poor and old, whose diets are in any case less than ideal, to harm their health."[90]

The situation has not changed fundamentally with the succession of the labour government in the late 1990s. Far from trying to restrict the consumption of meat and dairy produce, the labour government continues to subsidize the cost of propaganda encouraging people to consume this rubbish, "The average brit eats three ounces of cooked red meat - beef, lamb, pork, beefburgers and sausages - per day. The COMA panel (the committee on medical aspects of food and nutrition policy) .. recommended people who ate five ounces a day should cut down. Then professor philip james, architect of the new food standards agency, persuaded ministers that the advice should be strengthened. He said the committee had been railroaded by the meat industry. James suggested guidelines similar to those from the world cancer research fund, which backs daily consumption of less than three ounces."[91]; "The government has been reprimanded for failing to take measures to clean up food production and reduce food poisoning. Hugh pennington, the microbiologist at aberdeen university who investigated the E. coli outbreak in scotland that killed 20 people last year, says his recommendations have not been implemented quickly enough. His criticism comes on the heels of a warning yesterday by the british medical association that all raw meat should be assumed to be contaminated and treated as a potential source of poisoning. The Government will tomorrow publish a long-awaited White Paper on its proposals for a Food Standards Agency, intended as an independent watchdog body monitoring the production and processing of food all the way from plough to plate. A record 100,000 people were officially notified to the Public Health Laboratory Service last year as suffering from food poisoning, but scientists estimate that the actual number of such cases could be ten times that figure. Speaking on bbc2's food and drink programme, to be screened tonight, pennington says the figures are "unacceptable" for a type of disease that is preventable. "There is a crisis in British food production. It is not about BSE or healthy eating. It is food poisoning. If they (the government) are really serious they must implement all the recommendations in my report now.""[92]

The reason for this opposition to public health is because brutish governments are composed of landowners and pharmers; the house of lords is dominated by landed interests; and the maffia is solely concerned with promoting the interests of pharmers and has little more than contempt for consumers.

2.3: Rural Violence against Animals.

Ruralites and pharmers are responsible for the slaughter of vast numbers of livestock Animals; they devastate more Wildlife habitats than any other industry; they poison large numbers of Animals through the use of pesticides, insecticides, manure pollution; they prop up industries which involve the deaths of Animals; and, they are continually exterminating Animals regarded as 'pests'.

2.3.1: Pharmers Mistreatment and Slaughter of Livestock.

Annabel Sainsbury.

"The sister of lord sainsbury of turville, the industry minister, blamed government policy over bse yesterday after she was fined for letting her cattle starve. Annabel Kanabus, 50, a member of the Sainsbury supermarket family, had admitted cruelty with her husband and a son. The court was told that the herd on her beef farm had suffered seven occurrences of BSE and that confusion over official policy had left them vulnerable and unsure what to do. However, Inspector Bob Stevens of the RSPCA, which brought the case, said the neglect should not be blamed on the BSE crisis: "It was quite simply the family's failure to feed the animals. This is one of the most appalling instances of neglect I have had to investigate in ten years. It is clear the family had the resources to look after these animals." All 400 cattle have since been destroyed. The case was brought after 43 cattle were found starving on two occasions in late 1997 and early 1998. Magistrates at Horsham were told that a member of the public alerted the RSPCA after seeing a dead cow in a flooded field. Inspectors seized 20 cattle needing intensive treatment. Some cows were barely half their expected weight. In spite of further visits from the RSPCA and repeated advice from the family vet, conditions worsened. RSPCA inspectors and police went back to the farm and seized another 20 animals. Two pregnant heifers had to be shot on the spot because they were so emaciated. Hundreds of cattle were found crammed into a shed, and a dead calf was lying trampled into the ground, David Buck, for the prosecution, said. "[93] This is one of the reasons why the labour government isn't bothered about a food standards agency or getting to grip with the appalling treatment of farm Animals.

2.3.2: Pharmers' Extermination of Wildlife deemed 'Pests'.

To give but a few examples of the mass slaughter of Wildlife carried out by pharmers:-

The Carolina Parakeet.

"The Carolina parakeet, a beautiful green, red and yellow bird endemic to the south eastern united states was extinct by 1920, exterminated by farmers because it ate fruit. Prairie dogs and pocket gophers, two more examples of Animals killed by humans because of their lifestyles, have been poisoned and trapped because their burrows weaken the ground on which unwary Cattle graze, and if the Cattle step into the burrows, they may be crippled. As a result of sharply decreased numbers of prairie dogs and pocket gophers, the black-footed ferret, the natural predator of these animals, has not been found in the wild in the united states since 1986."[94]

The Marsupial Wolf.

"Until very recently in Australia there was a marsupial wolf, the thylacine. This creature was a very efficient hunter. It took to feeding on the newly introduced sheep and so was itself hunted and eventually exterminated by farmers. The last identified one died in London zoo in 1933."[95]

Deer.

Local farmers were so incensed about the national trust's decision to ban Deer hunting they went out and shot huge numbers of Deer. Even roger scruton that capitalist reactionary (i.e. free market in everything except pharming, the monarchy and the house of lords) agrees, "Local farmers, deprived of the sport that is the nub of their existence, began to shoot the deer - ostensibly because they no longer had any reason to conserve them, and therefore no means to offset the cost of the deer's predations, but in reality as much from anger and resentment at the unneighbourly treatment of which they saw themselves to be victims. The effect on the Exmoor deer population may be catastrophic .."[96]

2.3.3: The Slaughter of Animals used in Blood Sports.

Fox Hunting.

"Last week's incident (when ten hunting dogs were killed by a train travelling from tenby to pembrokeshire) is just the tip of the iceberg. And even though the safety of passengers could be at risk, british transport police refuses to prosecute. Since december 1993 there have been 19 reported cases of hunting hounds on railway lines, and 59 dogs have been killed. Trespass on railway lines is a criminal offence under the railways act, and each year hundreds of individuals are prosecuted."[97]; Bloodsports enthusiasts .. "selectively shoot 16,000 puppies each year in order to introduce new blood."[98]

Greyhound Racing.

"Over 30,000 greyhounds are bred in ireland each year. The majority of greyhounds in this country are irish bred Dogs. An estimated 10,000 will fail their first trials; most of these will be killed as puppies. Another estimated 10,000 healthy greyhounds are put to sleep each year at the owners' request. Many more are shot, drowned or thrown from moving vehicles .. (others end up in spain and/or vivisection laboratories). Greyhounds race between 18 months and four years; after this they should have at least another ten years of life ahead of them. It does not take much to work out that the vast numbers bred and the short racing life leaves a huge surplus of unwanted Dogs each year .. Greyhound racing is a sad and cruel sport."[99]

2.3.4: The Slaughter of Pests in Blood Sports.

Pests in Shooting.

"It seems to be an axiom of game 'management' that the natural predators of pheasant and grouse must be killed in order that another predator, man, can slaughter greater numbers of the prey, ritually, at a later date. Peregrine, buzzard, golden eagle and other hawks and owls are still shot and poisoned on gaming estates, even though they are protected by law. .. other 'vermin' which are killed for the sake of the shoot: stoats, weasels, jays, magpies, crows, pigeons, rats, adders .."[100]

2.3.5: The Pollution Generated by Blood Sports.

Lead Pollution.

"Every year, europe's hunters leave around 10,000 tonnes of lead shot lying on land or at the bottom of ponds. In 1991, 20% of all diving ducks and 9% of dabbling ducks that were killed by hunters in europe were found to have eaten lead shot. Veron thomas says a duck that eats eight lead pellets will die within two weeks from lead poisoning."[101]

The Insecticides used to Control Hound Mange.

"A fox hunting pal of prince charles and camilla parker-bowles was fined £6,000 yesterday for the "devastating" pollution of a river. More than 10,000 rare white clawed crayfish were killed by a chemical used to treat hounds for mange. As joint master of the beaufort hounds, captain ian farquhar was said to be responsible. The hunt was treating its 160 hounds with a "sheep dip" containing the insecticide cypermethrin. When hosed off it went into the river avon in wiltshire near hunt kennels on the duke of beaufort's badminto estate. The chemical was "wickedly toxic" a court at yate, near britsol, was told. A teaspoonful or two could destroy aquatic life in an area the size of an olympic swimming pool. Farquhar pleaded gulty. He was also ordered to pay £665 costs."[102]

2.4: Pharmers are Chiefly Responsible for Global Burning and Destabilizing the Climate.

2.4.1: Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

Pharmers are responsible for releasing a wide range of greenhouse gases.

2.4.1.1: Deforestation.

The burning of Forests to create pastureland releases many greenhouse gases.

2.4.1.2: The Burning of Stubble.

Around the world, most pharmers burn the stubble in their fields. This practice has been stopped in brutland after a number of major traffic accidents caused by dense clouds of smoke drifting over motorways, "Forty years ago nothing on the farm was wasted. Manure was returned to the land and straw was used for bedding or fodder. Today, britain's farmers burn six million tonnes of straw every year - about half the annual crop. And two-thirds of the manure and slurry produced by our livestock are wasted, with less than a third of the country's crops and grass receiving any at all."[103]

2.4.2: The Destruction of Greenhouse Gases.

2.4.2.1: Pesticides.

Stratospheric ozone is a greenhouse gas and some agricultural fumigants destroy greenhouyse gases, "Methyl bromide gas is used to kill pests like nematodes, fungi and weeds before planting crops such as strawberries, tomatoes and flowers. Although widely used around the world, the gas is scheduled to be phased out in industrialized countries by 2005 because it depletes stratospheric ozone. Now researchers at the us department of agriculture say farmers may not need to stop using methyl bromide at all. Researchers in the u.s. have found that emissions of the agricultural fumigant gas methyl bromide could be reduced to what they claim is insignificant levels by applying composted manure and a novel plastic cover to soil before the gas is injected. The manure speeds up the breakdown of the gas to harmless products like methyl alcohol and bromide ions dissolved in water."[104]

2.4.2.2: Pharming Industry Biggest Polluters.

Over the last few decades in the over-industrialized world, manufacturing and smelting industries have come under considerable public and political pressures to reduce pollution and clean up the environment. This has yielded results in areas. However, the pharming industry has remained virtually untouched by this political pressure. As a consequence it is now one of the biggest polluters, "Today just 6% of u.s. river pollution originates with industry. 40%, the largest share, is from agriculture."[105] In america, most of the pollution dumped into waterways doesn't come from industry but from publically owned wastewater works and from farms, "Today muncipal wastewater plants are the cause of some 38,000 miles of impaired rivers, approximately twice the number attributed to industry."[106]

2.4.3: The Destruction of the Earth's Life Support System.

2.4.3.1: Deforestation.

.. "agriculture has been responsible for the conversion of most forests ..."[107]

2.4.3.2: The Destruction of Wetlands.

.. "maff has consistently used spurious cost-benefit analyses to justify the drainage of wet meadows and the reclamation of salt marshes."[108]

2.4.4: The Commentators who believe Pharmers are Responsible for Global Burning.

James Lovelock.

"I think that by far the greatest damage we do to the Earth, and thus by far the greatest threat to our own survival, comes from agriculture."[109]

Jeremy Rifkin.

"The elimination of beef and other meat from the human diet is now required if we are to have any hope of saving the planet and ensuring our children's future."[110]

George Wuerthner.

"Certainly, on a world wide basis, one could argue that no single human enterprise is responsible for more environmental degradation than livestock production."[111]

Anne and Paul Ehrlich.

"While the proportion of the land area directly dedicated to human habitation is small - perhaps 2% at most - some 11% is used to grow crops and another 25% is regularly grazed by domestic animals."[112]

Mark Ritchie.

"Agriculture is the main human activity on Earth and the principal influence on our planet's ecology. Over half the inhabitants of the planet are farmers."[113]

John Gray.

Gray quotes lovelock that ecological problems may not be caused by our industrialized existence. "The destruction of wild nature by farming, the mechanization of agriculture, .. are far more dangerous threats to the diversity and integrity of the natural environment than life in cities. Indeed, it would seem to be an element in an ecological perspective on human society to view the city as one of the most distinctive features of human ecology, and one of the most civilized institutional inventions of the species."[114]

2.4.5: Pharmers above the Law.

The main reason the pharming industry has become the biggest polluter is because in virtually all countries around the world, the ruling classes are dominated by landowning elites - this is as true of the united states of america as the most poverty stricken third world country. The landowning elites block legislation that would curb their polluting activities. In effect, they are virtually above the law.