June 1998: Back to the Good Old days. Just like the Tories, the Labour government Refuses to Inform other Countries it is Banning the Sale of Bse-Infected Products.

According to stephen dealler, the labour government couldn't be bothered to inform its european partners that brutish plasma products could be infected with bse-cjd, "It seems that the UK has not advised foreign governments that its plasma products may be unsafe and so should be taken off the market (as is to happen in the UK in September this year). I have been contacted by foreign groups that have not been advised about this." [1] This is another example of the way the labour government has started behaving like the tory government over bse.

June 1st 1998: Pharmers still Illegally dumping Bse Infected Cattle.

Channel four news gives an update on their investigation into the illegal dumping of bse infected livestock. They have discovered at least 20 open pits in the north of england and scotland. Jack cunningham is interviewed and the line of questioning pursued by john snow is not 'how awful that pharmers are behaving illegally and irresponsibly' but 'how bad the government is for not offering pharmers yet more subsidies to dispose of their livestock properly'.

June 6th 1998: Seac Scientists make further Efforts to get the Labour Government to explore whether Bse has spread to Sheep.

Jeffrey almond, a seac scientist, once again raises the issue of bse in Sheep, "Scientists advising the Government are to step up checks on sheep flocks because of fears that sheep may have become infected with "mad cow" disease. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy in sheep would be an even more intractable problem than the same disease in cattle, they said. Infection in sheep, unlike in cattle, is likely to be found throughout the carcass, making it impossible to protect consumers simply by removing the most dangerous parts at the abattoir. The implications of this for sheep farmers are potentially devastating, since the only way to deal with bse in sheep might be to slaughter entire flocks, not just those animals that are visibly ill. Reporting on its latest meeting, the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee said it had concluded that "additional work was required to determine the extent of scrapie in UK sheep and the strains involved" and had set up a sub-group to do research. The committee noted that limited evidence from laboratory tests showed that "the clinical disease caused by inoculating sheep with bse appeared to be very similar to scrapie. As in scrapie, infectivity was found in the spleen of sheep experimentally infected with bse, although no infectivity has been found in the spleen of bse-infected cattle. If bse were found in sheep, dealing with the problem would not be easy, he said. "Unlike in cows, where infectivity seems to be largely restricted to brains and spinal cord, in sheep it is more widespread. You can take out the spleen and major lymph nodes quite easily, but the small lymph nodes are throughout the stuff we eat, in leg joints and shoulder joints and those sorts of places. So if you have bse in a sheep, frankly, I think you would want to throw away the whole carcass."" [2]

It is indicative of the intellectual mire into which politicians have forced scientists, because of their defence of pharmers' interests, that a reputable seac scientist has to argue that bse could be found throughout a Sheep but not a Cow. This is an absurdity. It is ideological nonsense of the highest order. It is possible, however, that almond is making a pre-emptive strike. Having lost the battle over the issue of the prevalence of bse in Cows because politicians got their denials in before the scientists could tell the truth, almond may have decided to present the scientific evidence first to prevent the Sheep industry from pretending that bse in Sheep is not present in Sheeps' blood but is confined to small, economically inexpensive, parts of these Animals. The only people this side of the milky way who have discovered a disease which spreads around a body from organ to organ without being present in blood is the brutish maffia. This can mean only that these loons believe bse is an out of body experience - it jumps out of the body from one organ and then piledrives back into the body to infect other organs. It's about time the maffia's scientists took some whacky backy in order to bring them back down to Earth and instill them with some good, sound, common sense.

June 9th 1998: John Snow Enthuses about Beef Exports.

It is announced that the european commission intends to recommend the lifting of the ban on brutish beef - subject to strict conditions being put in place. On channel 4 news john snow, a carnivore, greets the news with his usual journalistic impartiality, "A tremendous achievement." [3] This newsreader treats the news like a val doonican fireside chat amongst the country's throat slitting, blood sucking, mass murdering, eco-nazis.

June 13th 1998: Bse is still Rife in Brutish Herds; Brutish Government refuses to carry out Tests on Bse Infected Animals.

"Hundreds of thousands of apparently healthy Cattle could be infected with bse, new swiss data suggest. For every case of mad cow disease in switzerland, more than 100 animals may be 'silently' carrying the infection. If this pattern holds true in britain, the number of british cattle carrying the disease last year will have exceeded 450,000. Last year, switzerland started slaughtering herds in which a case of bse had been confirmed. The swiss federal veterinary office then began looking for signs of bse in the brains of these apparently healthy cattle. These tests have just been repeated using a sensitive diagnostic test developed by prionics, a company in zurich. Only one or two cases of bse typically occur in each affected herd in all countries in which the disease has been showing up. "The official theory is that only the sick cows ate a lump of infectious feed," says moser. "But other cattle may be infected, and just haven't shown symptoms." The prionics test has confirmed this. Of 1761 healthy cows slaughtered in the culling programme, eight tested positive for bse. Six of these were also picked up by the veterinary office using other tests. Eight infected cows out of 1761 gives a silent rate of infection of 4.5 per thousand - more than 100 times switzerland's 1997 rate of clinical bse. The swiss government and prionics will start testing the brains of 3000 randomly selected cattle at more than 20 slaughterhouses later this year, to see if the same rate of infection holds for herds in which bse has not yet been recorded. No one has tested for sub-clinical bse infection in britain. But if british herds contain more than 100 infected animals for every one with obvious symptoms, the number of subclinical cases in 1997 would have been around 460,000. Maff says that only older cows are likely to pose a risk of infecting people. .. some of the government's scientific advisers remain worried about the risks posed by sub clinical infection. John collinge .. fears that some cows may be carrying a silent infection that could be even more dangerous to people than bse: "It may be that there is rather more infectivity in muscle or other tissues in those animals and that is why they do not have a brain disease. Collinge has tried to get maff to look for sub clinical infection using sensitive tests like the one developed by prionics, but with no success." [4] This interpretation of the results from the swiss experiment has been challenged. The figures are excessive and it should also be pointed out that the test was carried out on infected herds rather than herds which had no example of a bse infection which makes it likely that the figures for the national situation may be excessive. However, the comment by collinge is new and suggests this is a serious issue.

June 15th 1998: Pharmers put Pressure on Blair to Sack Cunningham.

The pharmers' campaign to get rid of jack cunningham continues to build up, "Here is a mystery. Why is it that when the Prime Minister in the commons last week was asked to comment on labour's success in getting the european commission to recommend lifting the ban on british beef, he made no mention of his agriculture minister jack cunningham? Indeed, when encouraged directly by a labour backbencher to give mr. cunningham credit, mr. blair still contrived to avoid doing so. A clue to the above mystery may be found in mr. cunningham's hasty and ill-advised decision to stop people eating beef on the bone. From all accounts it appears this was a unilateral decree by the agriculture minister, which was not first communicated to downing street. Now that the european commission has declared in effect that british beef from younger cattle is bse-free, (sic) it is surely time to recognize jack 'boots' cunningham's ban on eating t-bone steaks for the pointless, fatuous, dictatorial edict it is, and repeal it."[5]

An inquisitive reader might find this article a little strange. How did this reporter discover that jack cunningham hadn't asked tony blair's permission to implement the bse-on-the-bone ban? The answer is quite simple - this insight was fed to the reporter of what is an extreme right newspaper by one of tony blair's spin doctors either alistair campbell (who once used to work for the daily furrier) or by the aristocratic pharmer loving, prince of slime, mandelson. What they are doing is not merely distancing the prime minister from an unpopular policy amongst the beef loving, middle classes but preparing cunningham for his pending dismissal.

July 1998: Brutish Pharmers still Feeding Shit to Cattle.

Stephen dealler points out that even now, three years after the feeding of Animal parts to other Animals was supposed to have been banned, brutish farmers are continuing to feed their Cattle with Animal manure which in all likelihood could contain bse. Dealler is worried that the feeding of Chicken faeces has led to more bse. "The reason for this is because the Chickens were fed on mbm in the u.k. and then their faeces (which of course would contain 99% of the infectivity fed to the Chickens) are added to bovine feed as a source of urea, which is then turned into some proteinaceous material by the rumen." [6]

July 7th 1998: Dr Narang Claims more Bse-cjd Victims.

"A scientist will today claim that at least 16 more britons may have died of the human form of bse than the 27 official victims - and that they began dying 11 years before the first recognized case in 1995. Dr narang .. says he identified several patients with atypical symptoms from traditional cjd long before the new variant was announced in march 1996, and linked to the eating of beef. Dr Narang claims he identified the condition .. in 1988. He says that the first death probably occurred in 1984 and involved people in their 60s as well as the mainly young people identified by the cjd surveillance unit in edinburgh." [7]

July 16th 1998: Scientists warn yet again about Bse in Ooman Blood.

Dealler reports admiringly on a speech given by will patterson about the likelihood of bse-cjd in ooman blood, "Will Patterson, Public Health doc in York was yet again the hero of the day at the meeting there on 16th July 1998. This was the only person that seemed to have the nerve to make it public that blood transfusion (and indeed many other hospital associated actions) may involve the transfer of nvCJD. He organised the meeting in 1996 that brought out the data of bse and nvcjd and he has done it again. It was clear to the audience again that the man deserved applause." [8] Dealler is right. If there is one person who might be deemed a hero in this very brutish affair, it could be only patterson. Of course there are various heroes outside government who might be deemed heroes, such as lacey (and dealler himself) but he's the only one at the centre of the political process who has taken all the pressure and the flak for decisions that offend the pharming aristocracy. The only reason that more people won't die from this disease in the future is because of the quiet battle that patterson has been fighting against the mass murderers in the maffia, the pharming unions, and various government departments. Quite how this person could survive in the suffocating claustrophobia of such bigoted, narrow minded, foul minded, liars is beyond imagination.

July 16th 1998: Labour Government Prevaricating about Bse in Ooman Blood.

"The u.k. government had the data available for some time that blood transfusion should not be considered safe because of nvcjd. It is not really surprising that, if plasma products are unsafe after dilution to a large extent, then blood will not be either as that would not be diluted. It is said that the Government had the data indicating this from early this year... but then again the information used to work this out was available as of the beginning of 1997 and the UK blood transfusion service had been warned about it a long time earlier." [9]

July 18th 1998: The Blood Transfusion Issue: Maffia Scientists state that Bse-Cjd is in Ooman Blood but Bse isn't present in Cattle Blood - uhhh?

After a year of prevarication, the labour government finally decides to act to prevent the spread of bse-cjd through ooman blood transfusions, "Donor blood will be cleaned to stop transfusion patients getting bse-cjd, the government announced yesterday. Supplies will be stripped of their white cells, which could harbour the human form of mad cow disease. But the £80 million a year programme will still not be 100% safe, according to sceptics. They claim the process, called leucodepletion, will still leave some white cells behind. Mr dobson acted after experts estimated that one in 125 transfusion patients could be at risk from blood contaminated by the new cjd variant." [10]

Dealler highlights an article claiming that cjd is `almost certainly in the blood supply', "This explains that, as 3 of the cases of bse-cjd were found to have been blood donors, and plenty of other people incubating the disease will also be donors, therefore the blood supply could not be looked on as being safe. Dealler `bitterly attacked the Government officials for acting too late. This is the news that a lot of people feared. Now we have firm evidence that probably thousands of people have possibly become infected while the experts have been aware of the seriousness of the situation' he said. (in fact Dealler had not spoken to the Mail at all). The National Blood Authority was secretly ordered weeks ago to submit plans and costings for a programme to remove white cells. It was clear that the slimming down of the NBA that has taken place will require that the technicians are re-hired to carry out the leucodepletion. It meant that while all this gets ready many of the 350,000 recipients of blood in the UK every year will continue to receive the blood from non-leucodepleted sources. Early in the day the DofH press office had been saying that the risk from cjd in blood was less than one in 4 million and this was crushed rapidly by the press." [11]

The tory government, and now the labour government, have denied, from the outset of the disease, that bse is in Cattle blood i.e. in Cattle meat. This has meant they also have to argue that bse-cjd is not in ooman blood. If they admitted the latter, then there would be pressure on them to admit the former and thus ban all beef. The ideological dismissal of the possibility that bse-cjd is in ooman blood means that more and more people are likely to be infected with the disease - just for the sake of protecting pharmers' interests. Every denial the tories made about bse cost a ooman life. It now seems to same could be true of the labour government.

July 18th 1998: Labour Government Reacts to Scares about Bse in Sheep - by doling out more Subsidies to Subsidy Happy, Criminal Pharmers.

The labour government responds in exactly the same way to scares about bse in Sheep, as the tories did about bse in Cattle - they dismiss the claim and heap yet more subsidies on pharmers, "Farmers in Britain whose sheep and goats develop scrapie will in future be compensated for the value of their animals. Infected animals will be destroyed. Although farmers have been legally obliged to report cases of scrapie since 1993, the lack of any compensation may have led to widespread underreporting. There are also fears that some sheep showing symptoms of scrapie may, in fact, be infected with the agent that causes bse." [12]

July 1998: French Ban on Parts of Lamb Corpses.

The french health authorities react to news about bse in Sheep by re-imposing a ban they had just allowed to lapse, "Shortly afterwards it was announced that sheep could easily become infected from bse and, as we had infected plenty of cattle, there is no reason why sheep could not already be infected. The French quickly put a brain and spinal cord offals ban on all sheep for human consumption and the same may appear in the UK." [13] Perhaps one of the reasons why the brutish government later singles out the french government over the banning of bse-infected beef is because they have also banned Lamb products as well. But then, the french decision shouldn't be that surprising given that this is exactly what brutland would have done if france had been responsible for creating this disease.

July 30th 1998: Prusiner Dismisses Bse Disease.

One of the most bizarre statements uttered about the bse disaster comes from, of all people, the world's leading authority on prions. He denies that bse and bse-cjd are spongiform diseases, "A few weeks ago, in evidence to the bse inquiry, the nobel laureate Stan Prusiner, originator of the infectious prion protein hypothesis of bse and similar diseases, said that he could not understand the statistical argument underlying the British claim that the small number of cases of new variant cjd are a human form of bse. The world's leading expert thus demolished the main pillars of evidence supporting the seac (Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee) prion-based advice to Government that led to the bse panic."[14]

July 1998: Bse in Ooman Blood: Labour Thugs keeping Scientists in the Dark.

"The haematologists of the UK seem extremely annoyed as to why they were not told of the risks from blood transfusion of bse-cjd. They had got little data at all prior to the announcement on the 17th July 1998 that leucodepletion was to be introduced. Various groups had in fact approached Lacey because they could not get the information from official sources. Although some data had indicated that blood was over used in the UK, minimal information reached the various medical groups telling them to use it less. A major document was issued by the DofH/BTS several weeks before about the infective risks of blood transfusion: bse-cjd was not mentioned." [15]

July 1998: Yet more Products being banned in Case they Contain Bse: Tallow is banned from all pharmaceutical products - but still being used in Cattle Feed.

The labour government is still having to deal with the consequences of the tory's incremental banning of Cattle organs suspected of harbouring bse. One of the main characteristics of the bse crisis is the pitch battles waged over a succession of Cattle organs before they were eventually banned. Cattle, like all other complex creatures, have dozens of different organs. Once they have been executed their corpses are cut up to produce thousands of different products. The tory government may have banned the consumption of some organs and some Cattle products but there are still many other organs, and thousands of Cattle products, still being used many of which could contain bse. Instead of imposing a blanket ban on the consumption of beef, the tories banned Cattle organs/products one by one - usually the cheapest were banned first and the more expensive the organ the greater the fight that was put up to prevent it from being banned. This practice is being continued by the labour government. Dealler points out that the labour government has just decided to ban tallow from being used in ooman medicines whilst it continues to be used in Animal feed,"It is not clear exactly why there is 'no scientific evidence that tallow contains infectivity', however they say that the hydrophobic nature of the tallow and it being made partly from bone marrows in the formation of gelatin means that tallow must be looked on as a risk. What they have not said, however is that tallow continued to be in bovine feed in the UK long after the feed ban of 1988. Eventually it was twigged that this might not be a good idea but Wilesmith had said that the distribution of disease was not the same as the spread of tallow from an infective source ... but he had far too poor data. So now things appear to be getting worse for tallow and the original demand of the UK ban on tallow exports seems to continue." [16]

July 1998: Purdey Gaining Support from Extreme Right Wingers.

Dealler reports that mark purdey is being feted by leading right wing tories on the look out for opportunities to blame bse on everyone else but the pharmers, "Teresa Gorman (mp) at the Phillips Inquiry. She came into the audience when mark purdey was being interviewed and was surrounded by an entourage of journalists. She decided to sit in the second row because this would not mean that she was creating a fuss. In fact someone came and sat in front of her and was asked to leave. Tom King (mp for purdey and had actually sent a car once to the farm to get him from parliament) was also there." [17]

July 1998: Boneless Blair Sacks Cunningham for Exposing Criminality of Subsidy Addicted Pharmers.

The major political changes brought about by the countryside march result in blair's replacement of jack cunningham. This sacking had long been trailed by blair's spin doctors in the tabloids. Cunningham posed a considerable threat to the meat cleavers' brigade. He not only wanted to reduce pharmers' dependency on welfare state benefits by reforming agriculture in the next round of gatt talks; he set up the bse enquiry; and banned bse-on-the-bone. He also put the wind up conventional pharmers by supporting organic farming, "Jack addressed the annual meeting of the Soil Association, the first minister to do so." [18] Conventional pharmers were horrified that cunningham could give credibility to a bunch of chemical-free hippy farmers. There was a lot of injustice in cunningham's dismissal. Pharmers blamed him for triggering off protests at ports around the country. In the late 1980s thatcher's sacking of edwina curry became a striking symbol of the dominance of pharmers' interests over those of consumers. It has to be suggested that blair's sacking of jack cunningham was an even greater act of servility to pharmers' interests than the sacking of edwina curry - after all, she was only a minister, cunningham was the secretary of state for agriculture.

August 19th 1998: Dealler takes on the Proteus Test for Bse-cjd. Screening of Bse in Oomans.

It is announced that dealler is to be employed to assess a test for bse-cjd, "Work on a test to screen donated blood for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is to start in October with £500,000 from the Health Department. The government agreed last month to spend millions on a process to remove white cells that are believed to be the most likely part of blood to carry infection, but this is not foolproof. Stephen Dealler, a microbiologist who has been one of the main critics of policy on cjd, has been put in charge of the screening research to be conducted by the Public Health laboratory service in Leeds. Mr Dealler has claimed that one in 250 donors may be infected with new-variant cjd. He will be working with Proteus, a biotechnology company, which has developed a diagnostic test for BSE which is now being used for the slaughterhouse monitoring of beef by one supermarket chain in Ireland. The test uses antibodies to identify the modified "rogue" form of prion protein that is believed to cause CJD, BSE and other related diseases such as scrapie in sheep." [19] ; "This gives the details about the test announced by Proteus International to the Stock Exchange about a new test that would look for nvCJD in blood and how this was to be headed by Dr S. Dealler, who had been looked on as a heretic by the Goverment prior to this. It is funded by Government funds of around 400,000 pounds and will be based in Leeds." [20]

August 25th 1998: Pharmers Reign of Terror Continues to Spread: Stacey Robinson.

"A 19 year old mother has died from the human form of mad cow disease. Burger lover stacey robinson became ill last autumn with what doctors think was bse-cjd ..." [21]

August 28th 1998: Bse-cjd Discovered in Appendices - Government gives the go ahead for Secret Tests to Determine the Spread of Bse-cjd amongst Oomans but still Refuses to Test Cattle for Bse.

Yet more revelations about the corruption of maffia scientists: they hadn't tested whether bse-cjd might reside in appendices and tonsils - even though critics warned them this was likely.

It was discovered recently that one of the latest victims of pharmers' disease had had an appendix operation about a year before he started showing symptoms of the disease - apparently it is a common practice across the country for surgeons to save any organs removed during routine operations. The bse-cjd victim's appendix was put in storage. He died three years later. After his death it was decided to examine his appendix for traces of the prion protein, "The government last night ordered appendix and tonsil specimens to be checked for the new cjd strain as they attempt to set up a screening programme. Samples from 844,000 operations kept by hospital labs will be examined. The move comes after Torbay coastguard tony barrett died from new cjd three years after having his appendix removed. Traces of the disease were found in the organ." [22]

Once again, the bse crisis reveals another rather murky practice in the medical profession. Throughout most of this century, it has been common practice for surgeons to preserve samples of organs removed from patients during operations. This was not commonly known until the practice was exposed by the bse crisis. This opened up the way for the later discovery that doctors were removing organs from people during post-mortem investigations.

September 1998: New Cattle Registration Scheme 'Bureaucratic Nightmare'.

Dealler is concerned that pharmers might not be able to implement the Cattle registration scheme, "Plans allow farmers only 7 days to complete paperwork for a new cattle passport system . Under the new Cattle Tracing System, which comes into force on September 28, the time limit for applying for passports is set to fall in stages from 28 days to just seven days by Jan 2000. Draconian penalties for failing to comply including the banning of the animal concerned from the food chain and the temporary banning of all cattle sales and purchases from the farm." [23] It would be an utter absirdity to place any trust in the brutish Cattle registration scheme after almost eight years of pharmers intransigent opposition to it.

September 7th 1998: The Bse in Sheep Crisis Rears up into a Confrontation with the Labour Government.

Leading Scientist speaks out against Bse in Sheep.

Over the last year or so a number of scientists, some of them on the government's own bse committee, have been quietly voicing their fears about bse in Sheep. They have done so in a non-confrontational way because they must be all too well aware of the violence of pharmers' opposition to such an idea. It is not known why jeffrey almond decided to go public in his attempt to broach this issue with the labour government. Perhaps he believed that with cunningham gone, the maffia thugs were taking control and he was left with no alternative but to try and publicize the issue. Perhaps he wanted to see whether the new secretary of state for agriculture had a political backbone or was just a fat lump of lard. He was soon to find out.

In a radio four interview, almond states what many scientists have feared for a number of years - that bse might be present in Sheep, "An expert on bse today said there was a "distinct possibility" that sheep have also been infected with mad cow disease. Geoffrey almond, chair of the sheep sub-committee of the bse watchdog, seac, said: "I think there is a distinct possibility that Bse is out there, in the sheep population. Speaking on radio 4's Farming Today prof almond added, "I think if we found bse in sheep it would be a national emergency."" [24]

The Government's Public Humiliation of Almond. Blair's Spin Doctors' Orchestrate Smear Campaign in the Media against their own Leading Scientist.

The blair government's response to almond's statement is as swift, ruthless, and devious as the tories' response to previous bse allegations: it orchestrates a smear campaign against almond throughout the entire media to prevent a public crisis in the Sheep industry. The last thing blair wants is a collapse in the Sheep industry. The Cattle industry is insignificant in comparison to the Sheep industry, "Brutland has a Sheep population of more than 20 million, worth £1.2 billion a year to farmers..[25] ; "There are 42 million sheep in the uk." [26] The brutish Sheep industry is one of the biggest in the world. It has more Sheep than the united states and possesses 30% of the Sheep in the european community, "The u.k. is the e.c.'s biggest Sheep meat producer (about 350,000 tones in 1993), followed by spain (250,000) and france (80,000)." [27] ; "Of the 16 million sheep slaughtered last year, 12.4 million (78 per cent) were between the ages of five and 12 months, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. Britain has 86,364 sheep farmers, by far the largest number in the EU. Of these, 45,295 are in England, 16,348 in Wales, 14,598 in Scotland and 10,123 in Northern Ireland." [28] Blair isn't bothered about the possibility that large numbers of people are dying because of bse in Sheep. After all he'll be long gone before they start dying. He's concerned only with protecting what he regards as his new voters, brutland's pharmers.

The Daily Furrier.

The daily furrier carries a twofold denunciation of almond - doubtlessly briefed by blair's spin doctor alistair campbell who used to be a reporter on the paper. The first is an editorial by the furrier'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." [29] The government reassures the public that Sheep are safe - even though, as we are to learn a little later, 'safe' does not mean without risk. The reason that no cases of bse in Sheep have been found is not because these cases don't exist, but because the government is yet again refusing to carry out random testing of livestock for bse. This is supposedly what passes for scientific evidence in the medical world. Given that the government hasn't conducted a comprehensive investigation into the issue, it is quite amazing that a tabloid's medical correspondent says that eating meat is safe. This isn't science - it's complete and utter quackery.

In her personal statement, jill palmer goes even further into fantasyland and reassures the public that lamb is safe (i.e. not without risk) by stating she'll still be eating lamb, "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." [30]

Itn's Midday News.

Blair's people have also managed to get itv news on board - who says brutish news is independent of politicians? Itn's report on almond's scientific concerns is a travesty. It starts off, as it has done in similar cases, by announcing that "a scientist" has expressed his concern about bse in Sheep. There is no mention of the name of the scientist let alone the fact that he is a long serving member of the government's standing committee on bse. Itn's resident science expert, lawrence mcginty, is asked to comment and he continually downplays the possibility of any threat from bse in Sheep, after all .. "only 27 people have died from new variant bse." The death toll from bse is now bigger than hungerford, dunblane, the scottish food poisoning outbreak and only slightly less than omagh. Does lawrence mcginty talk about only 29 people dying in omagh? This bigot is then followed by an interview with ken gill, representing the nfu, who dismisses the idea as "scaremongering" - this from a man who for the last decade consistently underestimated the threat that bse posed to oomans. Who could possible take this man seriously when he was so utterly wrong about bse-cjd in oomans? He's a joke. Television news journalists treat almond's views with contempt because most of them are meat eaters and are more concerned about protecting pharmers' interests rather than consumers' health. For example, dermot murnaghan is a meat eater who blames the Animal rights movement for causing anorexia in young girls but says very little about the pharming industry causing bse-cjd in young girls which results in them losing weight and then their lives.

The labour government, with the connivance of the beef-loving media, succeed in completely stitching up almond. It is one of the most blatant smear campaigns in recent times. Blair's dirty tricks department is so aggressive that the smear against almond is blatant. The bse enquiry is currently investigating the way tory governments covered up the spread of bse - supposedly to learn some useful lessons for the future handling of Animal concentration camps. But no lessons are being learnt. The blair government is now carrying on in exactly the same way as his rabid tory predecessors.

Over the following year the government will argue it has science on its side in its attempt to lift the beef export ban. As can be seen from the bse-in-Sheep saga, if they do not have scientists on their side they publicly humiliate them. The labour government tried to bury not only the bse-in-sheep issue but almond as well. This appalling smear campaign is typical of the thuggish nature of so much brutish politics.

What Thatcher did to Hide Bse in Cattle, Blair is doing to hide Bse in Sheep.

It has become transparent that what the tory government did for the beef industry tony blair, the people's friend, is doing for the Sheep industry. Just like thatcher before him he is willing to sacrifice people for the sake of the Animal exploitation industry. The transfer of sleaze from a decadent tory government to a decadent labour government is now complete. This is what constitutionalists would call 'the renewal of the brutish political process'. New faces are inserted into the system when its incumbents become too tainted with sleaze to enable the system to function efficiently.

September 8th 1998: Lamb is safe Adverts on Tv.

What an amazing coincidence. Two days after almond's statement about bse in Sheep, the government's Meat and Livestock quango is advertising Lamb on tv. All paid for by bse-cjd victims of course.

September 8th 1998: Dealler's Comments on Bse in Sheep.

There was supposed to be a ban on the export of certain Sheep organs but apparently this has been forgotten, "Specified risk materials from sheep have not been adequately defined by the European Commission and this has been under endless argument and annoyance from the various industries. It now appears that the export from the UK of whole sheep carcasses to France (the main market from the UK) that contained the spinal cord and over 12 months old will be permitted." [31]

Dealler comments on a newspaper article about scientists' warnings about bse in Sheep, "Professor Almond, 47, Scientist from Reading University and on seac warned that bse may have spread but gave no proof or evidence. The article goes through the various reasons why the sheep are likely to have at least been exposed to the bse, and that when fed huge doses a lot of sheep died of bse. But then again the maff did not try to feed the sheep small doses or wait for 15 years to see what happened. The article makes it clear that Almond is not a scientist from the blue in this one in that he is on major committees on the subject and knows what goes on. Editorial by James Erlichman is much more open about the problem. It explains why the sheep will have been exposed to a lot of disease and why the sheep parts that we have been eating would have been exposed to infectivity from the blood. The Farmers Union leader Gill says that if there was to have been an epidemic in sheep we should have seen it by now and we haven't. Erlichman's real question is: what are they not telling us what is going on? In general the newspaper stories (the article is in all the papers) are unable to find out why this should have come to the attention of Nature (article last week) or the press just now and not 5 or even 10 years ago. (I get the impression that something else is going on: the information is definitely not new and yet my contacts in the food industry are not taking this lightly)." [32]

September 10th 1998: Daily Furrier condemns minister for not distributing Bse Infected Meat.

The agricultural minister nick brown finally makes his political debut. It is only necessary to look at this fat faced, fat arsed, bloated, lump of lard to appreciate that what we have here is not an impartial politician who will take a dispassionate, independent, and impartial, look at the issues but a beef loving bigot who has been put in charge of the maffia to win over the rural vote. He doesn't get off to a good start in the eyes of the daily furrier which wants him to give bse-infected beef away for free, "Mean ministers have cancelled a scheme to hand out thousands of tons of free beef to the poor and needy. Now vast stockpiles of british beef could be burnt as a result. Under the e.u. food surplus scheme, meat in cold storage was bought with money from brussels. It was turned into high quality canned beef in gravy and given by charities to people on benefit. But new agriculture minister nick brown has announced the government will pull out of the scheme. He said it had suffered a poor take-up and was bogged down in red tape. Around 8,000 tons a year have been distributed in the uk since the scheme started in 1987. About 90,000 tons are stockpiled." [33] His loyalties become transparent when he visits a pharm wearing green wellies and poses for a publicity shoot.

September 11th 1998: John Collinge Demands Tests for Bse in Cattle.

"The Government's advisory committee on creutzfeldt-jakob disease has recommended a new series of tests on cows that appear healthy but may be carrying the agents that cause "mad cow" disease. The tests are the suggestion of John Collinge, of St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, in West London, who has developed a technique that can be used to test samples from cows quickly and cheaply. The specimens would come from healthy cows slaughtered in abattoirs without any hint that they may be incubating bse. The idea is to investigate whether there are some cows that carry the infective agent for long periods, but never suffer symptoms. If such sub-clinical cases exist, it is possible that many cows could remain infectious even when the bse epidemic is over. Dr Collinge's test, using a technique called Western Blot, detects the aberrant prion proteins that are responsible for bse or new-variant cjd, the brain disease that is the human equivalent of bse. It is much quicker than the classical methods for testing infectivity, which have involved injecting mice with brain material from cows and waiting for them to become ill." [34]

September 11th 1998: Labour Government Appoints to Seac a Statistician downplaying Bse and Bse-cjd.

Anderson's Intellectual Mentor.

The labour government appoints roy anderson to the seac committee - a statistician whose work has helped at various moments of crisis in the bse disaster to dampen fears generated by the spread of bse. Anderson is a colleague of richard southwood at oxford university. Southwood headed the first enquiry into bse and his great claim to notoriety is that all his assumptions about the future course of bse turned out to be, at best, gross underestimates but, at worst, a useless load of scientific bullshit - the effect of which was to dismiss public anxieties about the disease. Whether he deliberately set out to mislead the public or was bullied into conclusions that would have this effect by the thugs in the maffia is not possible to say. He believed that bse would die out in the early 1990s. He dismissed the maternal transmission of bse. He estimated there would be only 17,000-20,000 cases of bse .. "in 1994 the number of cases rose to 137,000 six times greater than Southwood's worst case scenario." [35] As of may 2000 there have been 176,000 cases in brutland alone. And, perhaps most infamously of all, he believed bse would not affect oomans because Cattle were a dead-end host. This report could not have been better at placating public health concerns if the authors had deliberately set out to dismiss the threat posed by bse.

Although anderson's connections with southwood may have seemed extremely impressive to the overwhelming majority of the country's reactionary tory pharmer yobs, the maffia were such a bunch of secretive closet cases they were still much too suspicious of him to allow him access to their statistics about the course of bse. The maffia refused, for many years, to give anderson these statistics about the spread of bse. When he was eventually given access he formulated a proposition about the spread of the disease that was very conducive to the maffia's propaganda fantasies.

Anderson Dismisses Fears of a Bse-Cjd Epidemic.

In november 1996, anderson dismissed fears of a bse-cjd epidemic, "Professor anderson .. also challenged a paper - submitted to the medical journal the lancet for publication rumoured to predict "hundreds" of deaths a year from a new version of cjd, confirmed only in march, and linked with the bse epidemic, "My own view is that it is very difficult to say anything sensible scientifically about this issue at present." Professor anderson is head of the wellcome trust centre for the epidemiology of infectious diseases, and one of the government's advisers on the progress of the aids epidemic." [36] Anderson believes it is perfectly feasible for him to estimate the future number of Cattle fatalities but dismisses seac's estimate of the number of bse-cjd fatalities.

Anderson Predicts Bse will Disappear Soon.

As has already been noted, in march 1998 anderson claimed that bse would almost die out by 2001 .. "the bse epidemic was likely to have dwindled to only a handful of new cases by 2001." [37]

Anderson is Appointed to the Bse Committee because of his Views on Bse.

It seems overwhelmingly obvious that the maffia appointed anderson to seac primarily because of his tranquil views about bse rather than because of his inordinate scientific capabilities.

September 11th 1998: Anderson claims Bse is Dying Out.

Roy Anderson Reiterates Belief that Bse will Disappear in 2001.

Soon after his appointment to seac anderson reiterates his view that the bse crisis is almost over, "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." [38]

Roy Anderson dismisses John Collinge's Tests for Bse in Cattle.

Anderson's only been on seac for a few weeks and he seems to believe he already knows enough about current scientific research into bse to dismiss collinge's work, "Other members of Seac are more sceptical about that approach. He added that Dr Collinge's test needed further validation before it could be relied upon." [39] Anderson is a statistician who 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 and do his job properly.

September 26th 1998: No Pharmer has yet been convicted for murdering any of the Bse Victims but if a Swindler cheats Pharmers out of their Subsidies then they're sent to Prison.

"A cattle dealer who swindled farmers out of £50,000 was given a 12-month suspended sentence yesterday. Roger Lampier, 52, of Chacewater, Cornwall, shortchanged them on compensation to which they were entitled under a bse slaughter scheme." [40]

September 28th 1998: Cattle Tracking Scheme Finally Starts.

Brutland's Cattle tracking scheme finally splutters into existence. It is believed the Cattle will be identified by black arm bands with a yellow star. "We also want to introduce mobile gas vans as a way of speeding up the slaughter process." said a labour government and trade union spokesperson who also happens to belong to the world eco-nazis league for the continuation of the first holocaust. The tracking scheme is the same one that john gummer negotiated in may 1990 but which the tory government reneged upon because it would have exposed the full scale of the bse disaster, "British cattle movement service (BCMS) goes live from 28th September. A full page advertisement showing that from that date farmers must send applications for passports to the BCMS, notify the BCMS of all movements of cattle registered after the date, notify the BCMS of deaths of cattle born or imported since 1 July 1996." [41]

Dealler points out that, "Earlier implementation of the creation of the computerised traceability system would have enabled the maff to react more swiftly and effectively to the bse crisis according to the National Audit Office. This demanded that although the scheme was set up in August 1996 but really only saved £15 million because of the abuse of the system." [42] A Cattle registration scheme was the last thing the maffia wanted because they knew it would reveal too many disturbing facts about bse. The prospects for a fully functioning Cattle registration scheme are negligible. Since pharmers are secretly getting rid of many bse-infected Cattle there are going to be an awful lot of Cattle which are going to go missing over the next couple of years.

September 28th 1998: Labour Government Drives Home the Point that there is no Evidence of Bse-in-Sheep. Labour Government is reading from the same script used by the tories over Bse in Cattle.

Dealler reports that, "Junior Agriculture Minister made it clear that the scare of bse in sheep was unacceptable and that no cases had been shown." [43] ; "If we found bse in sheep it would be a national emergency. Both these articles go into the announcement from seac that sheep had been exposed to bse, that if we exposed them to it in the laboratory they became infected, and there had been no adequate testing of sheep. The worry particularly is that when this type of disease crosses between species it alters the way in which it acts i.e. humans may become infected from sheep easier than from cattle ... but we don't know. All of the information given is followed by large amounts of denial from the National Farmers Union and calming from the Department of Health. [44] The reason that bse in Sheep may not have become apparent is because Sheep pharmers are adamant they are not going to go through the same hell as their colleagues in the beef industry - no matter how many consumers might die as a consequence. Also because Sheep are killed at a very early age to avoid the development of scrapie, few of them are likely to show any symptoms of bse. As has just been pointed out 78% of the 16 million Sheep slaughter each year are between 5-12 months old. [45] [46]

October 3rd 1998: Blame Bse on Abattoir Owners.

"Offal banned for human consumption in britain because of the high risk of transmitting bse to people may have been entering the food chain as recently as 1995, the official bse enquiry was told last week. In his evidence, andrew fleetwood, a senior vet at the ministry of agriculture, described a letter from a consultant to the meat industry dated june 1995, which noted that "unscrupulous abattoirs had cheated." [47]

October 10th 1998: New Test for Scrapie.

.. "a team .. led by stanley prusiner has devised a rapid test that can distinguish between eight strains of scrapie. Whether the test will work in sheep remains to be seen says jeffrey almond .." [48]

October 13th 1998: Calman - It's safe but not as you might understand it.

Kenneth calman, the former chief medical officer who failed to stop the spread of bse-cjd, attends the public inquiry into bse and tries to explain why he spent so many years telling the public that brutish beef was safe to eat when his private definition of the term was completely different from its publicly accepted meaning i.e. without risk. His personal definition of 'safe' clearly opens up opportunities to mislead the public, "Health advice to the nation in the past that british beef was safe didn't mean "no risk at all", the bse enquiry was told yesterday. The revelation by former government chief medical officer sir kenneth calman came as cjd sufferer paula beyless died in hospital. Sir kenneth said, "If you look at 'safe' in ordinary speech, we don't mean that a driver we describe as safe will never have an accident."" [49] So what calman means by 'safe' is something which is not merely risky but could leave people with a fatal disease. This definition of the word 'safe' is just an attempt to distract attention from the fact that he told the public there was no risk to eating beef, "The chief medical officer was to make his only public intervention in the whole crisis, (on may 16th 1990 he said). "There is no risk associated with eating british beef. It .. is safe to eat." [50] Calman is more intent on covering up his guilt than having the guts to admit that he was wrong and that what the tory government did was nothing less than lying.

October 13th 1998: Paula Beyless: 28th Victim of Bse-Cjd. The Appalling Lack of Treatment for Bse-Cjd Victims.

.. "cjd sufferer paula beyless died in hospital. Cjd girl pamela, 24, of leicester, died after an 18 month illness. She is believed to be the 28th victim of the new strain." [51]

One of the many incredible contrasts generated by the bse epidemic is that whilst huge subsidies are lavished on pharmers to enable them to produce diseased meat, bse-cjd victims are being left to fend for themselves without any additional medical care or assistance. Pamela beyless suffered the first symptoms of bse-cjd in july 1996. By august of that year she was seriously ill. In may 1997 she was taken out of the hospital to be cared for by her parents. "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." [52] And then pharmers have the gall to waltz into london demanding more subsidies whilst their victims are treated with this sort of contempt. From the point of view of justice, it is quite surprising that people haven't taken up the opportunity to string up a few pharmers. Is it not amazing that the public continues to admire pharmers when they have not merely inflicted a deadly disease on vast numbers of people but then done nothing to campaign to ensure that their victims died with at least some dignity. Instead pharmers have just let their victims rot away in ignominy.

1998: Government Pays a Pharmer £50,000 Compensation for One Cow Suspected of Carrying Bse.

Whilst bse victims are being treated shabbily, the maffia decides to give a pharmer £50,000 in compensation for the slaughter of an Animal which was suspected of having bse. The pharmer is offered a test which might show whether the Animal had the disease but he preferred to take the money, "But the NAO reveals that MAFF has been seeking to cut the overall bill since the export ban in 1996 caused panic among beef consumers. Abattoirs were overpaid (Intervention Board payment to them per cow has dropped from £87 to £25), renderers were over paid (originally paid £105 per tonne now paid £83). Some payments have been excessive: some farmers have been paid as much as 50,000 pounds for pedigree animals that have had to be slaughtered as precautionary measures." [53]

October 17th 1998: The Proof that Carnivores are still eating Bse; Government Refuses to Test Cattle because its too Expensive.

Despite the fact that the maffia has argued, ever since the inception of bse, that bse in Cattle was not like scrapie in Sheep, it is becoming increasing obvious that the labour government believes that bse is like scrapie after all i.e. that it's a disease which the brutish public is going to have to live with, "A swiss cow infected with bse has been removed from the human food chain after testing positive for the disease at an abattoir. This is the first confirmed case of infection in an apparently healthy animal destined for the dinner table. Roy anderson of the university of oxford, a member of britain's spongiform encephalopathy advisory committee, says epidemiological models of the disease predict that per year, between 200 and 300 cows incubating bse enter the food chain in britain. The british authorities have decided testing is not yet warranted." [54] ; "So it's true. Some of us are eating cows with mad cow disease, despite all the government assurances that meat is safe. Switzerland, one of the more honest countries in europe in terms of bse, has been testing apparently healthy cows for the rogue prion that causes the disease with a test fast enough to keep infected cows off supermarket shelves. It has now found one infected 4 year old cow which tested positive for the disease at an abattoir. It is scandalous that it has taken until now to test healthy cattle at the abattoir, to find out just how many really are infected, and eaten. (Will tests be carried out in brutland? No). Because it may not be cost effective. Models suggest screening for cattle at abattoirs may watch only five a year that are infected enough to show up on tests." [55]

October 18th 1998: Beef-Chops Promises to exert Political Pressure on Scientists to Rescind Beef on the Bone Ban.

Nick 'beef chops' brown, the newly installed minister for the promotion of pharmers' interests, announces that the bse-on-the-bone ban will soon be rescinded, "Crisis hit farmers yesterday drew comfort from the biggest hint yet that a ban on sales of beef on the bone is close to an end. Agriculture minister nick brown said he was ready to take a "political decision" to lift the ban leaving "consumers free to choose." [56]

October 26th 1998: Relatives of Bse-Cjd Victims Have their Day at the Enquiry - and now fuck-off back into Oblivion.

Bbc Breakfast News.

Bbc one's breakfast news reports on the bse inquiry where relatives of bse-cjd victims are telling their stories. One person demands a national plan to care for the victims, "But you're not claiming compensation are you?" blurted the bbc interviewer with incredulity. It might seem the interviewer had just momentarily forgotten the billions of pounds that are lavished on pharmers each year whilst next to nothing had been done for the care of bse victims. Perhaps he was horrified that cash might go to bse-cjd victims when it was desperately needed to provide yet more welfare benefit payments for fucking scrounging pharmers. In reality, the bbc has a very strong rural/pharmer bias giving inordinate amounts of publicity to pharmers' propaganda even at the expense of the interests of the rest of the population. The rural/pharming bigotry in the bbc can also be seen in the large number of cookery programmes featuring fat faced hostesses and carnivorous chefs even though large numbers of people are now vegetarian. The bbc's cookery programmes are closer to being pharmers' propaganda programmes than entertainment or culinary education. 'Two Fat Ladies';

Channel Four News.

Channel four news at seven also reports on relatives' stories. One relative complained that the care given to bse-cjd victims was very patchy. A relative of a bse-cjd victim called lawrence pointed out that lawrence had been dying in hospital but that once he'd been diagnozed as having bse the hospital said there was nothing more they could do for him and more or less asked his parents to remove him from their premises - it is suspected the bed was needed for a pharmer who'd strained his back whilst loading government compensation payments into his barn. Even worse was that when the relative visited lawrence in hospital he found him being served BEEF stew for dinner.[57] Presumably the hospital had a contract with local pharmers trying to offload bse-infected Animals on the cheap. The hospital authorities said they wouldn't analyze the beef to find out whether it was infected with bse because they'd been assured by local pharmers that they produced only the highest quality beef.

Itn News.

Quite interestingly, itn news couldn't even be bothered to report on the bse-cjd victims. News at ten was much more interested in whether paul gascoigne had managed to get on his feet after another marathon session under a beer barrel scoffing various bse infected meals. This is in line with itn's distinctly pro-pharmer 'no-such-thing-as-bse' stance. Such news about bse victims is bound to upset the recovery in the consumption of bse-infected beef.

Mirror.

Whilst television news hardly covers the relatives' day in court the mirror gives a far more extensive coverage, "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." [58]

October 26th 1998: Media Takes Far more interest in the Lawrence Inquiry than it does in the Spread of Bse and Bse-cjd.

It's interesting that the leftie, meat-eating, pharmer-loving, bigots producing television news have devoted far more attention to the lawrence enquiry than they have to the bse inquiry. The lawrence inquiry has virtually wiped out television news coverage of the bse epidemic. Why is this? Is the murder of one black teenager more important than the murder of (to date) 53 white people? Is the death of one black teenager more important than a disease threatening half the country's population? Is reform of the police service more important than reform of the maffia and pharmers' extravagantly lavish welfare benefits? Lefties will, of course, dismiss such an accusation as racist but there are fundamental issues involved here which these eco-nazis simply refuse to consider.

Leftie, anti-racist campaigners have highlighted not merely the brutality of stephan lawrence's murder but the corruption, contempt, and indifference, with which police treated his death. The lawrence family were repeatedly told by the metropolitan police that there was no evidence that stephen was murdered and they had to put up with this shit for years despite all the evidence to the contrary. Doesn't this sound all too familiar to those with even the vaguest knowledge of the bse disaster? The relatives of bse victims have had to listen to nearly fifteen years of tory and labour politicans, the maffia, the public health department, lords of the realm, the nfu, and pharmers, telling them there was no scientific evidence that bse is a threat to ooman health and did absolutely everything they could to dismiss the evidence to the contrary piling up around them. The bse victims themselves must have heard the message that their lives weren't at risk at the same time as they were eating bse-infected beef. At least the lawrence family got an inquiry which took their views seriously whereas southwood's inquiry into bse concluded there was nothing to worry about and we should all go back to eating bse. Perhaps anti-racist lefties ought to spend a little time reflecting on the appalling contempt and indifference meted out to the relatives of bse-cjd victims and ask themselves just how much worse it must have been for these families than the lawrence family. What is even worse for the relatives of bse-cjd victims, in contrast to the lawrence family, is that whilst the criminals who murdered lawrence went into hiding in south london, the people responsible for murdering the 53 bse-victims have continued to be warmly welcomed into parliament, continued to enjoy easy access to government ministers, continued to enjoy widescale public admiration, and even organized demonstrations through london demanding yet more government subsides to sell their disease ridden products which are going to kill even more people. If a quarter of a million whites had gone marching through london insisting there was no evidence that lawrence was murdered and that it was time to give large scale subsidies to people like lawrence's killers then many commentators would have concluded we were living in a deeply racist society which was on the verge of a civil war. I haven't noticed lots of anti-racists (most of whom are meat-eaters) rushing around the country denouncing the scandalous murder of bse-cjd victims and the contempt with which bse-cjd victims have been treated. I'll bet one thing though - if lawrence had died stuffing his gob with beefburgers then there wouldn't have been any fuss made about his death by the country's lefties.

October 26th 1998: Tory Government announces further measures to Clampdown on Welfare Benefit Scoungers.

Alistair darling, the new minister for social security, announces his intention to impose further restrictions on those claiming welfare benefits. Does this mean less subsidies for pharmers? Of course not. It appears that drastic savings from the unemployed, the sick, and disabled, are required because pharmers need further compensation for whatever it is their currently losing money on.

In a separate development, the agriculture minister, nick 'beef chops' brown, the financier of green welly terrorism, announces the government is to buy a fleet of heavy goods vehicles to deliver compensation payments to pharmers' homes instead of expecting them to leave the slaughter fields to cash in their giros. Pharmers have recently been protesting about the huge effort required to fill in so many forms for all the welfare benefit payments to which they are eligible under the common agricultural policy. They would much rather be given one lump sum rather than having to apply for dozens of small welfare benefits. However, the government insists that fragmenting welfare payments is essential to ensure it is impossible for critics to work out exactly how much subsidies pharmers are getting.

November 6th 1998: Acheson Admits talking junk Science.

Donald acheson who did so much to placate public fears about the spread of bse to oomans admits that he made an error in his famous "There's nothing wrong with bse infected Beef' speech. Perhaps he should have said 'there was no scientific proof that Cattle were free of bse' or that 'there was no scientific proof that bse was safe' but somehow it slipped out that, "Brutish beef can be safely eaten by everyone both adults and children." Keith meldrum, one of the prime architects of the junk science spouted by the maffia and tory government for nearly a decade attended the inquiry .. "to listen to what acheson had to say." (Channel Four evening news). In other words to ensure his colleague continued toeing the line rather than say anything which might incriminate him.

November 11th 1998: Euro vets Maintain Bse Ban.

"Euro vets yesterday voted to keep the ban on british beef - despite most wanting it lifted. Eight members of a 15 strong panel of experts backed ending the 30 month trade blockade - but it was not a big enough majority." [59]

November 11th 1998: European Commission Lifts Bse Ban. Yes, it was only 2 years ago that it was discovered that 10 people had died from mad pharmers disease and yes we're still counting the corpses but really, believe me, bse is now safe. The Triumph of Public Relations over Reality.

Despite the 'scientific' decision of european vets, the ec council of ministers makes a political decision to annul the world-wide ban on the export of bse-infected beef, "The ban on british beef was lifted yesterday - and britain launched a £3 million crusade to win back lost customers. Most european farm ministers voted in favour of sales restarting, with only germany voting against. Ten nations, including the u.k. backed the move. France, spain, austria and luxembourg abstained." [60] However, the ban will not be lifted until euro commissioners are satisfied that brutland has implemented the Cattle tracking scheme the tory government promised to introduce in may 1990 but which it failed to implement over the following seven years it was in office. The prime minister gushes effusively as he sets up a photo-opportunity to personally thank nick brown, the agriculture minister, for helping to lift the throat slitting ban. I bet tony will soon be visiting a local concentration camp (known as abattoirs by eco-nazis) telling the people working there what a wonderful job they're all doing.

This article doesn't contain a single mention of the number of people who have died of tory-pharmer disease. It's rumoured that saddam is placing an order for hundreds of millions of tonnes of brutish beef which he intends to sell to israel. But american jewish politicians are believed to be preparing a propaganda campaign to expose this as yet another example of iraq's chemical biological warfare, "Saddam thatcher is evil. Bse is one of the deadliest biological agents we know of," said, benjamin gurion, secretary of state for foreign affairs in both the american and israeli governments.

November 16th 1998: Government Keeps Piling on the Subsidies for the Pharming Scroungers. Now the scum are getting Subsidies for Bad Weather.

"The government yesterday threw hard hit farmers a £120 million lifeline but warned their future could be secured only by a shake-up in european agriculture. Mr Brown accepted farmers had suffered from a marked deterioration in business as well as poor weather that had delayed the sale of their animals to an already over-crowded market. The package comes on top of other aid, worth £150 million, provided in recent months. Farmers get about £2.3 billion a year through e.u. common agriculture policy arrangements. Help with anti-bse measures accounted for another £1.3 billion help over the last two years. (Tim yeo pointed out that this was the) "second farm rescue package in a year" .. The council for the protection of rural england said farmers needed to be supported as "stewards of the countryside"." [61] Pharmers are stewards of the countryside in the same way the mafia are stewards of the international banking system. Every time that blair gives the pharmers another vast sum of welfare benefits he insists he wants to see reforms and every time everything stays exactly the same. The addiction of pharmers to their subsidies is far more acute than heroin addiction. Weaning pharmers off welfare benefits is likely to require at least six months in a subsidy rehabilitation unit.

November 26th 1998: Beef Chops Brown puts Pressure on Scientists to Lift the Bse on the Bone Ban.

Blair appointed fat chops to replace cunningham and scrap the bse-on-the-bone ban. He duly complies by releasing a press statement which seems to suggest that scientists have re-examined the scientific basis of the ban and have concluded the threat has mysteriously disappeared only a mere year after it was discovered, "Beef on the bone could be back on britain's dinner plates in time for xmas. Scientific advisers have told the government that the danger of being infected with the human equivalent of mad cow disease by beef on the bone has vanished. A meat and livestock commission spokesman said last night: "We are now sure the chances of anyone being infected from beef on the bone is absolutely zilch." [62]

This is press release, however, is not merely a means of notifying the public of the latest scientific information. It is a political device firstly, to make sure the public realizes that fat chops wants the ban lifted and that it is the scientists who are preventing him from doing so. And, secondly, it is a means of exerting public pressure on scientists to ignore the scientific evidence they have collected and agree to the lifting of the ban. It is hard to ascertain how scientific evidence could have changed so dramatically over the last year. Scientists doubtlessly fear that if they allow this particular part of a Cattle to be put on public sale again then the pharming industry will start demanding that the bans on other Cattle organs should be lifted. Brown is exerting appalling political pressure on scientists but, on this occasion, they manage to resist his bigotry. Paterson's scientific credibility would have been shattered if fat chops had managed to lift the ban. Once again, this is typical of the way the labour government is now imitating the tories.

November 26th 1998: Dispatches reveals Close Links between Dementia and Bse.

The 'Dispatches' programme broadcasts new research which points to a link between normal cjd, dementia and bse and once again reiterates that bse may now have infected Sheep. [63]

December 1st 1998: Fat Chops Brown puts more Pressure on Scientists to Lift the Bse-on-the-Bone Ban.

"An early end to the beef on the bone ban was promised by agriculture minister nick brown yesterday. An announcement is expected before xmas. The mirror revealed last week that experts thought the risk of catching cjd had virtually vanished" [64]

December 30th 1998: Contra Campaign to get Bse Back on School Menus.

"The farmers' union has launched a strong attack on plans to keep beef off school dinner plates. Members of oxfordshire's education committee last week decided to continue with the beef ban in schools despite being split on the issue. The county's school canteens have been barred from serving beef products since 1995 .." [65] ; "the county chairman of the nfu complains that party politics are hindering the decision being taken to re-introduce beef in schools. We can't help feeling some sympathy for his argument." [66]

1998: Southwood Honoured for so many Errors.

Richard lacey points out that richard southwood has been honoured for making so many mistakes in his bse report, "Following the publication of their report (southwood's report on bse) sir richard southwood was promoted to vice chancellor at oxford, professor m.a. epstein was knighted and sir john walton became lord walton." [67]

1998: Could the Bovine Growth Hormones Victims have died of Bse-Cjd?

Lacey speculates that the children who died after being given injections of human growth hormones may have died not from sporadic cjd but bse-cjd. .. "a human form of bse was already in our food chain. That, i suggest, is how youngsters who undertook growth-hormone treatment were infected: by prions which were already at work in the bodies of people who had ingested them with the beef of olde england." [68] The chances of this proposition being explored? - Non-existent.

1998: Could old Age folk have died of Bse-Cjd?

One of the pecularities of bse-cjd is that it seems to afflict the young rather than the old. Lacey believes it is possible that many older folk may have died of the disease but have been diagnozed with related illnesses, "There was - and still is - no legal requirement to report cjd cases . I suspect, for instance, that over the years hundreds if not thousands of cases of sporadic cjd in elderly victims have been diagnosed as the much more prevalent alzheimer's disease." [69]