"In a move that has stunned environmental regulators, europe's veterinary scientists have decided to drastically loosen controls on the release of antibiotics and other animal medicines into the environment. More than 10,000 tonnes of antibiotics are used in the european union each year, roughly half of which ends up in animals. Up to 50% of some drugs passes unchanged through our bodies and enters sewage systems or is poured onto the land in pharm waste, and may end up in rivers. Europe has no ceiling on the amount of drugs allowed into the soil. But veterinary authorities across the eu had said that any compound likely to accumulate at above 7.5 milligrams per hectare on a farm must undergo an environmental impact study. Now as a result of an agreement reached last year between veterinary regulators from the eu, us, and japan, who are members of a little known body called veterinary international co-operation on harmonization (vich) this threshold is to be raised tenfold to 75 grams per hectare. Steve killeen, head of chemicals policy at britain's environment agency told new scientist that he first heard about the changes earlier this month. "The agency has had no involvement in this decision," he said. "I think there are real questions about whether vets are taking environmental issues sufficiently seriously."[112] Vets are good at maximizing profit from Animals but their regulatory functions should be removed entirely since they are just professional hired pharm hands. Vets are pharmers with a degree.

"Five members of the government's scientific panel examining the alleged dangers of sheep dips are receiving money from companies which make the chemicals."[113]; "The failure of the government to put adequate controls over commercial cook-chill operations is a clear example of its concern for food producers rather than consumers."[114]; "MAFF protects the farmers, food processors, large retailers and various related bodies such as pharmaceutical companies."[115]

"When stephen vine, chief home office inspector (of vivisection laboratories) .. retired from the inspectorate .. he promptly became an active member of .. the vivisection lobby - the research defence society."[116]

There are a number of fruitcake scientists on government appointed committees who hide behind junk science, "Octopuses are to be protected from painful scientific experiments .. The home office has acted on recommendations from its animal procedures committee ... A minority of the committee voted against extending protection to any of the encephalopods .. on the grounds that "there is no definite, scientific evidence" that Animals experience pain or suffering."[117] Now, where has this sort of nonsense been heard of before?

"Surprisingly, the actual prevalence of scrapie is not known in this country - itself a sad indictment of the investment into veterinary research and surveillance."[118]

"Any action towards a healthier lifestyle would inevitably conflict with powerful vested interest groups such as

the tobacco and alcohol industries,

the meat and diary industry,

the processed food industry, and

the drug industry,

whose aggressive advertising and promotional activities encourage the mistaken belief that health can be obtained from a bottle."[119]

Virtually the entire scientific elite are now on the payroll of multi-national corporations and would be forced to sell their life work if they are to get a decent pension. All paid environmentalists are part of a career structure in which the highest paid environmentalists are those in business. There are no independent experts because all of them work for the Earth rapists. Their scientific findings cannot be accepted simply because of their materialistic bias.

In the past a large proportion of the country's scientists have been either university based researchers or public servants. To one degree or another, they were independent and objective and could be relied upon to provide relatively impartial advice. The changes brought about by the tory government has meant that more and more of the country's scientific elite is now on the payroll of multi-national corporations. Their grants, wages, careers, perks, and pensions, have become dependent upon doing what is in the interests of multi-national corporations. Virtually every scientist in the country now looks for profits rather than the truth. Scientists are no longer free to make objective statements which might have a negative impact on the profits of the multi-national corporations because multi-national corporations employ these scientists. Scientific facts today are those which conform to the interests of multi-national corporations whilst those which conflict with multi-national corporations' interests are automatically regarded as unscientific. If multi-national corporations own the world's scientists then science is whatever multi-national corporations do, whilst anything done outside of multi-national corporations is, by definition, non scientific. The tory government has destroyed scientists' independence, impartiality and objectivity.

It is difficult not to agree with robert sharpe who concludes a study on ooman health, "Any action towards a healthier lifestyle would inevitably conflict with powerful vested interest groups such as

.. "scientists, like everyone else, generate information to bolster the philosophies of those who pay them."[122]

"The beef-eaters, myself included, have been saved by our resistance - not by the government scientists, the government vets, and the Department of Health, whose advice has been as dangerously bad about BSE and CJD as it was over HIV, haemophilia and hepatitis C. In a less dramatic way, their tardiness in supporting adequate screening for high blood pressure, breast cancer, cervical cancer and prostatic cancer has made these aspects of British medicine the object of the world's derision."[123]

"There is a popular view that scientific conferences are forums for intellectual exchange, where like minded colleagues freely swop information, motivated only by a disinterested love of truth. How such a platonic ideal became established is curious. For most workaday scientists the conference is fraught with danger and frustration, and is as aggressive an environment as any sales convention. Advancement is at stake. The long, long ladder of academe has few promotions. The rule is to acknowledge the seminal work of one of the handful of scientists sitting securely at the top of whatever tree it happens to be, who control research grants, write the job references, and thus wield much power."[124]

"The development of geology as a science was largely founded on the search for raw materials. Until quite recently, the expectation of most people trained professionally in the earth sciences was that they would work in the petroleum or mining industries."[125]

"Over half of the professional geologists in countries such as the UK and the USA are employed directly to find oil and gas. Others work for the government energy agencies. Some academic geologists run research programs funded by petroleum companies. Add to these the numbers involved in finding and producing coal, and probably between 65-75% of the profession is dependent on the fossil fuel business."[126]

The veterinary profession .. "has jettisoned its intellectual integrity and social responsibility. .. "the application of veterinary science to agriculture .. has led to profound and unremitting abuse of animals."[127]

.. "highlights bureaucracy and politics, snobbery and egomania, and the hopes and disappointments that characterise life in university science."[128]

"The very nature of money laundering makes it hard to estimate how much goes on but experts believe that drug trafficking alone accounts for $500 billion worldwide. Most of that will go through London at least once in the laundering process."[129]

"The chief executive of Britain's biggest investor, the Prudential Corporation, challenged the government to regulate the City which he said was incapable of stamping out fraud."[130]

"Accountants are helping to launder crime proceeds of £500 billion every year through the financial markets of the west. Sikka said, "Many fraudsters could not get away with their crimes without the help of their accountants and many of them are British."[131] also hints that a cabinet minister in one of margaret thatcher's governments organized a cover-up of money laundering allegations against a major accountancy practice. Police statistics show that last year accountants gave far fewer tip-offs than bankers, lawyers and independent financial advisers, even though accountants are usually the best placed to spot a fraud. (Accountants) face prison sentences of up to five years for non-disclosure, or 14 years if they are found guilty of aiding and abetting money laundering. So far no one has yet been prosecuted."[132]

Tory governments from 1979 to 1997 appointed huge numbers of tory party members to government quangoes - one estimate is that there are "40,000 tory-appointed members of quangoes - unaccountable public bodies."[133] "Unelected quangoes have grown in size and importance - there are now around 60,000 quangocrats compared to just 25,000 local councillors in the country. The government has also used its power of patronage to reward political supporters."[134] The labour party's submission to the nolan committee investigating government sleaze will .. "demand rigorous scrutiny to halt John Major's "quango gravy train". It will also demand a detailed register of the 40,000 Tory-appointed members of quangoes - unaccountable public bodies."[135] In the 1980s one of the benefits for middle class people joining the tory party was in the hope of being offered a £10,000 a year sinecure on a tory quango. Some of the recruitment to fill posts on the tories' quango gravy train was done at tory party political meetings.

"Thus christopher benson, chairman of the sun alliance group which donated £280,000 to the conservative party was appointed to the funding agency for schools."[136]

"A report by the ‘independent' stated that of the 185 nhs trust chairs examined, 62 had clear links with the conservative party."[137]; "Virginia Bottomley has allocated more than £20 million for salaries for chairmen and members of the board of 289 NHS trusts .. many of the top jobs, carrying salaries of more than £19,000 a year, are going to former government ministers, their spouses and conservative candidates who failed to win seats in the general election."[138]; "In 12 of the 14 regional and district health bodies there were 697 non-executive places of which 402 went to business and commercial interests."[139]

"First the government appointed lord marshall – who as chairman of british airways, lobbied hard against proposals to tax aviation fuel – as head of its energy tax review team. Then last month, tony blair persuaded the g8 summit to elect as head of its global task force on renewable energy the chairman of shell, a company doing its utmost to increase sales of fossil fuels."[141]

"Leading dentists today attacked the medical research council for accepting money from the sugar industry to sponsor a symposium on tooth decay. They accuse the government funded council of lending "spurious scientific respectability" to the sugar bureau (the lobby group of the sugar industry giants such as tate and lyle) by allowing it to sponsor the meeting on monday. A bureau spokeswoman, miriam cummins, confirmed that the group would be paying all the travel, hotel and meal expenses of the speakers at the meeting. Lord jellicoe, a former chairman of tate and lyle, was chairman of the mrc from 1982-1990. The coma panel advised last july that sugar consumption should fall by at least a third from the 90 lbs a year britain's consume."[142]

"Financial links between food companies and the government's most senior experts on food policy were revealed for the first time yesterday. 12 out of 17 members of the Food Advisory Committee declared some cash reward from food companies."[143]

"Fees paid by food and drug companies to the government's food advisers were revealed for the first time yesterday. The list of interests shows that 3 out of nine members of the committee on Medical Aspects of Food policy are supported by food and drug companies. 31 out of the 59 members of all the committee's panels declare at least one personal or non-personal financial link with a drug or food company."[144]; "The government was accused of frantically back-tracking after announcing red meat was safe to eat. One third of cancers are linked to diet but tucking into average amounts of red meat does not increase the risk, according to a labour-appointed study. In september health secretary frank dobson advised people eating normal amounts of red meat to "consider a reduction" to lower their chances of getting the disease. That sparked a furious row and in a U-turn the government now says consumers need not change their ways. .. the report by the committee on medical aspects of food and nutrition policy. The average brit eats three ounces of cooked red meat - beef, lamb, pork, beefburgers and sausages - per day. It is the 15% who eat more than five ounces who could be putting their health at risk. The COMA panel intended to publish its advice in september after considering evidence linking red meat to bowel cancer - which kills 19,000 britons a year. It 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. After yesterday's report chief medical officer kenneth calman said, "Adults who eat more than the average amount of red meat, especially those who eat a lot more, might benefit from a reduction. Average and below average consumers need not change."[145]

"The health education authority yesterday endorsed eating red meat in a report published with and financed by the meat and livestock commission."[146]

The Committee on the Safety of Medicine, which vets the safety of new drugs, is dominated by doctors whose livelihoods are dependent upon the chemical industry, "Most of the doctors and medical scientists chosen by ministers to monitor the pharmaceutical industry receive regular payments from drug companies, according to the 1988 annual report of the medicines commission. .. only 6 out of 24 members of the medicines commission have no financial interests with drug companies. A similar list of payments and grants is disclosed by members of the committee on the safety of medicines. Only 4 of its 20 members declare no financial interests of any kind."[147]; "The latest figures show that 16 out of the 20 members disclose financial interests of some kind. Altogether, members of the committee disclosed personal payments from 43 drug companies and 128 research grants paid by the pharmaceutical industry."[148]

"Five members of the government's scientific panel examining the alleged dangers of sheep dips are receiving money from companies which make the chemicals."[149]

"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."[150]

"When stephen vine, chief home office inspector (of vivisection laboratories) .. retired from the inspectorate .. he promptly became an active member of .. the vivisection lobby - the research defence society."[151] There are a number of fruitcake scientists on government appointed committees who hide behind junk science, "Octopuses are to be protected from painful scientific experiments .. The home office has acted on recommendations from its animal procedures committee ... A minority of the committee voted against extending protection to any of the encephalopods .. on the grounds that "there is no definite, scientific evidence" that Animals experience pain or suffering."[152] Now, where has this sort of nonsense been heard of before?

"When Stephen Vine, Chief Home Office Inspector (of vivisection laboratories) .. retired from the Inspectorate .. he promptly became an active member of .. the vivisection lobby - the Research Defence Society."[153]

"Lacey took early retirement a couple of years ago, at 58. These days he potters and paints, he gardens quite brilliantly, he makes a small fortune from his antiques collection. He does so many things, fills his time so easily and happily. He says he's not given a big interview for five years. Why should he? That's an old life, the past. The Tory government and its farming friends didn't like the message so they decided to destabilise the messenger. Lacey takes out a copy of one of his many books, and raises his vexed eyebrows into huge quotation marks. "The thing I got really angry about was that a group of MPs used parliamentary privilege to rubbish me at a press conference in the House of Commons." He reads from the book slowly and calmly. "This is what it said: 'That not all scientists bore equal authority was amply born out in our evidence. Professor Lacey in particular showed a tendency to extrapolate sensational conclusions from incomplete evidence in order to publicise his long-standing concerns about food safety. The result was a mixture of science and science fiction, a quite unsuitable basis for public policy. When he told us that if our worst fears are recognised we could virtually lose a generation of people he seemed to lose touch completely with the real world.' " He stops, appalled. The first he heard of the smear campaign was when reporters rang him for a comment. It was in 1994 that things reached their nadir. His department at Leeds University was 60% funded by the health service. One morning a health service manager turned up for a surprise visit. "He said they were going to have a press conference in the afternoon, and they were going to announce all my staff's contracts would be transferred to another authority. It meant I couldn't do any work. I could be paid but do no work." The university, which remained loyal to him, worked out a package - the health service advanced his pension and agreed to reemploy him as a consultant in a small hospital for three years. "The total cost to the health service was half a million pounds.""[154] The tories basically destroyed the reputation of the person who warned them about the lethality of bse.[155]

.. "in the past five years, in all but five of 143 public inquiries into roads, the inspector has recommended the road be built, and in three cases within that five the inspector's negative recommendation has been overruled and the road built anyway."[156]

"In september bnfl revealed that data on reprocessed material at sellafield was falsified. Japan, germany, sweden and switzerland have since cancelled fuel imports from the plant."[157]

"Serious ramifications for the future of the independence of brutish science occurred when brutland's office of science and technology, the government's science body, was moved from the cabinet office to the control of the department of industry in july 1995. ‘Try as you might,' wrote the leader writers at new scientist, ‘it is impossible to find a logical reason for last week's decision .. And what of research on the environment - the results of which are often painful for industry?"[158]

"The boss of the environment agency is allowing genetically modified crop experiments on his land for a second time. Lord de ramsey. The chairman of the government watchdog, sparked fury last year when it was revealed he was allowing gm food giant monsanto to carry out experiments on his land. Despite the row he is now renting 60 acres of his estate in abbots ripton, cambs, to a swedish firm which is carrying out three tests on oilseed rape."[159]

Food campaigners yesterday criticised the appointment of a leading scientist to head the new food standards agency. They said oxford professor sir john krebs, who will be paid £96,000 a year for the four-day-a-week job, did not have a track record in food or consumer policy. But he insisted that he wanted the agency to be `a beacon of openness and a model for the best use of science.' Sir John, who is former head of the national environment research council, and whose study of badgers helped to bring about a government cull to see whether the animals spread TB to cattle, said he wanted to strengthen `already high standards" of food safety, to ensure that `everyone can have confidence that public health is being properly protected".

Mcblair is a vociferous supporter of genetic engineering, "A Downing street spokesman said: "The PM has such confidence in the genetically modified food on sale that he would have no problem consuming it. He is of the view that these products are safe."[160] He appointed a pharmer who was carrying out genetic engineering experiments to head the environment agency, "The boss of the environment agency is allowing genetically modified crop experiments on his land for a second time. Lord de ramsey. the chairman of the government watchdog, sparked fury last year when it was revealed he was allowing gm food giant monsanto to carry out experiments on his land. Despite the row he is now renting 60 acres of his estate in abbots ripton, cambs, to a swedish firm which is carrying out three tests on oilseed rape."[161] The government has close links with those in the genetic engineering industry, "New labour is accused of cosy relations with Frankenstein food firms. Key government figures back the development of genetically modified crops. And some of the key players in tony blair's election victory now work for the gm lobby. David Hill. Veteran labour spin doctor who now advises monsanto. Jack cunningham chairs the biotechnology sub-committee. Stan greenberg. Labour election adviser paid huge fees to help monsanto with its propaganda. Lord sainsbury .. admits he owned the patent on a translator enhancer to produce genetically modified foods."[162] It has been argued that, "Maybe we have nothing to fear (from GM foods). I'd be happier if i didn't know ministers have met the food industry bosses 81 times since the election to talk about selling gm foods."[163]

In the past a large proportion of the country's scientists have been either university based researchers or public servants. To one degree or another, they were independent and objective and could be relied upon to provide relatively impartial advice. The tory government introduced changes to push more and more of the country's scientific elite onto the payroll of multi-national corporations. Their grants, wages, careers, perks, and pensions, have thus become dependent upon doing what is in the interests of multi-national corporations. Virtually every scientist in the country now looks for profits rather than the truth. Scientists are no longer free to make objective statements which might have a negative impact on the profits of the multi-national corporations because multi-national corporations employ these scientists. Today scientific facts are those which conform to the interests of multi-national corporations whilst those which conflict with multi-national corporations' interests are automatically regarded as unscientific. If multi-national corporations own the world's scientists then science is whatever multi-national corporations do, whilst anything done outside of multi-national corporations is, by definition, non scientific. The tory government has destroyed scientists' independence, impartiality and objectivity.

The two main characteristics of the brutish press are firstly, their sheer vile, nastiest - and this includes not only the sun but the mirror, the times and the guardian, and, secondly, their snivelling, grovelling attitude towards the government, the landowning pharming elite, and the national pharmers union. As regards the first characteristic, it isn't difficult working out why this country have so many thugs in all shapes and sizes in all parts of national life, "Our press is the only obvious explanation. Nothing else makes us so different from our european partners. The nastiest press in europe. Our fans are the true children of the great british newspaper industry. British xenophobia runs from our newsprint into our veins, a high octane jingoism that, at its most extreme, breeds the worst of englishness now pouring out on to the world cup streets."[164] The following gives a good example of the media's second characteristic, "But reading kitty kelley (her book on diana) i realized .. we never expose them (the royals) to hate. Nor has the integrity of establishment figures who still remain above criticism here ever been so challenged. She exposes the brutish press regularly mouthing palace denials of things which turn out to be true, exercising extraordinary degrees of self censorship to hide unpleasant aspects of royal behaviour, and conducting vendettas against those who raise dissenting voices. Even if only a quarter true it raises questions about whether sections of the press colluded with the royal family's vicious discrediting of diana simply out of deference.."[165]

The landowning pharming elite dominates the house of lords and has a veto over the country's democratic process. As a consequence it's been impossible to make any progress on the following issues:

Robert sharpe concludes a study on ooman health, "Any action towards a healthier lifestyle would inevitably conflict with powerful vested interest groups such as