At the end of 2001, the labour government was in the bizarre ideological position of arguing that:-

At the very start of the bse epidemic the tory government opposed the idea of bse being analogous to scrapie for fear of damaging the health of the Cattle industry. The tories eventually changed their minds. Firstly, they saw the political advantages of comparing bse to scrapie. Secondly, a few years later the tories’ formulated the specified offals ban based on the fantasy that scrapie existed only in specific Sheep organs. And, thirdly, in march 1996, the tory policy of culling Cattle over 30 months of age was modelled on the Sheep industry’s technique for ignoring scrapie. Given this huge ideological indebtedness to the scrapie model in the Sheep industry, it is ironic that, over this 18 year period, virtually nothing had been done to stop the spread of bse-ose in Sheep. This will be mcblair’s epitaph to the brutish nation, “He did nothing to stop bse in Sheep.”

It has been noted that Mice are relatively insensitive to bse and that pharmer-loving vivisectors regarded this as a great bonus because it meant they were not able to detect low levels of bse and they were able to give a clean bill of health to many Cattle organs containing bse. If bse had been found in all Cattle organs or in blood, there would have been considerable pressure on the government to ban the consumption of Cattle and Sheep corpses. It has also been noted that successive tory governments had successfully prevented experiments from being conducted to determine the spread of bse throughout the country’s bseef herds and the spread of bse-ose amongst Sheep. The government was either fabricating Animal experiments to produce favourable conclusions or were avoiding them to stop the emergence of evidence about bse.

It has been pointed out that the tory government embarked on a piecemeal policy of banning organs for public consumption - a policy also adopted by the labour government. It was made to seem as if these bans were being implemented as scientific evidence was accumulated from around the world. However, this was not true. In 1990 when the maffia was deciding which Cattle organs to ban, it didn’t bother to scour the research archives of the world to see what scientific results had already been reached by professionals in the field. Richard lacey points out that, in the late 1980s, there was already scientific evidence that tses affected a large number of organs in a variety of different species, “Based on the experiments on organs with other species of animal so infected, it is not valid to assume that infectivity in cattle incubating bse would be confined to those six organs. For example, infectivity in other species had been found by late 1989 in the following organs; nerves, eyes, adrenals, lymph nodes, salivary glands, liver, kidney, lung, utereus, blood and muscle.”[49] The maffia would act only on the results of its own experiments. This was not because other scientist could not be relied upon to produce sound results, but because if the maffia carried out its own experiments then this would delay action being taken against pharmers by anything between five and twenty years. The incompetance of brutish scientists would soon become clear to the entire world. It is as if the country's world famous football hooligans had been taken off the dole and given well paid jobs as government microbiologists.

In 1996, the government’s chief vet, ray bradley, of the central veterinary laboratory, admitted that experiments into the transmissibility of bse from Cows to Calves had still not been completed.[50] Twelve years after the first case of bse, and five years after the first case of a Calf getting the disease without eating infected feed, government scientists had still not determined the disease’s transmissibility. The reason for this delay is transparent: the longer the maffia could prevent evidence from emerging, the longer the government could go on telling the world that bse was on the verge of dying out. [51]

On april 25th 1998, the brutish government admitted it still hadn’t been able to bring itself around to testing the spread of bse in the country’s Cattle herds. What a way to deal with an epidemic - refusing to find out how widespread it was! “A spokesman for britain’s agriculture ministry says that plans to survey the brains of healthy slaughtered cattle for Bse prions are being discussed. But there are no current plans to see whether tissues from pigs and chickens can transmit the disease to cows.”[52] Fourteen years after the first appearance of bse, the brutish branch of the eco-nazi pharming brigade was still refusing to put under the microscope samples of Cattle brains removed from abattoirs to see whether they showed signs of bse.

On august 29th 2000, james meikle suggested that the maffia had carried out tests to discover the presence of bse in Cows, “Random tests on 3,000 cows last year revealed 18 had bse without showing clinical symptoms. Such checks will be increased to 10,000 this year and there will be surveys on 3,000 animals which die unexpectedly on farms or have to be slaughtered through illness or injury.”[53] There is no information as to what ‘random’ meant in these tests. It is possible the Animals were chosen at random from herds all over the country, slaughtered, and then investigated. This would have been an appalling waste of life when all that needed to be done was to test the brains of those Animals murdered in abattoirs.

In comparison to successive brutish governments who did their best to avoid any tests on Cattle to determine the prevalence of bse, the european union agreed, january 2nd 2001, to widescale tests soon after the disease starting spreading across the continent. It was stated, “Member states of the European Union kicked off a sweeping campaign Tuesday to test all cows over the age of 30 months for mad cow disease in a move to quell consumer fears about food safety. Portuguese Agriculture Minister Luis Capoulas Santos said Friday that quick tests for mad cow disease would be introduced in April. In France, 13 laboratories will conduct some 20,000 tests weekly on cattle across the country, starting this month. In Spain, cows will be tested in two phases: the first, to start immediately, concerns all at-risk animals, including those slaughtered because they were ill; the second, starting July 1, will have all animals over the age of 30 months tested. Dutch authorities have said they would be able to test 2,500 animals a day for the brain-wasting illness.”[54] What else does this comparison show other than that brutland is ruled by thugs from the landowning elite who are not in the slightest bit interested in the health of the peasants to whom they sell their products. Quite why the european community has been foolhardy enough to allow brutland’s thugs to resume exporting bioterrorism around the world is a little difficult to understand.

Even worse than the maffia’s failure to ascertain the spread bse in Cattle was its failure to determine the spread of bse in other slave Animals which might be vulnerable to the disease or might be carriers. It was reported that, “Even animals that don’t become ill after being infected with the ‘prions’ thought to cause bse, scrapie and similar diseases can have enough of the proteins in their tissues to infect other animals, new research confirms. The finding raises again the possibility that animals such as pigs and chickens which ate feed thought to be tainted with bse prions, could harbour the infection.”[55] How was it possible scientifically to eradicate bse when the maffia refused to take any interest in the spread of the disease to other species?

Successive governments were so protective of the Sheep industry’s interests, and so disinterested in protecting the health of consumers, that by october 1998, maffia scientists had managed to test only nine out of forty two million Sheep. In other words only 0.00002% of the country's total flocks, “A technique has been developed that for the first time makes it practical to screen the national flock of 42 million sheep for mad cow disease. So far only nine sheep have been checked for bse, says Prof Jeffrey Almond, a member of the Government's spongiform encephalopathy advisory committee, seac. He urged the Government to test the national flock "as a matter of urgency". Today, in the journal Neuroscience Letters, another seac member, Prof John Collinge, and colleagues at St Mary's Hospital, London, working with the Central Veterinary Laboratory, Weybridge, Surrey, published the results of a preliminary survey to establish a new screening method. Their work demonstrates that "molecular screening" for bse in sheep should only cost a few pounds per test. Currently, the "gold standard" method is a bioassay, which involves inserting suspected infectious tissue into the brains of laboratory mice and observing them.”[56] Is it not remarkable that nearly 14 years after the first appearance of bse, and the deaths of large numbers of Cattle in brutland and other countries, that neither the tory nor the labour governments had bothered to determine the scale of bse-ose affecting the country’s Sheep flocks? It would have been easy for scientists to take samples from the Animals slaughtered in concentration camps to determine whether they had the disease and then estimate the scale of the disease around the country. But this was something that both the tory and the labour governments refused to do.

Up to the late 1980s Sheep were given the same feed as Cattle so it is possible they could have been affected by the disease or become carriers. This meant they could have become hosts to three tse diseases, not merely scrapie and bse but bse-ose. According to fred pearce, the transmutation of bse into bse-ose might mean the latter would be more virulent than the former, “Although bse may have its origins in scrapie, its transfer back to Sheep would be worrying because the bse agent seems to be more virulent than most scrapie strains, perhaps because it changed subtly in passing into Cattle.”[57] Because oomans were eating bse-ose infected Sheep corpses it is possible they might be vulnerable to this new tse which, in accordance with the nomenclature adopted in this work, is called bse-ose-cjd since it was likely to have originated in Cattle, been transformed in Sheep, before affecting oomans. As far as is known there have been few discussions in the media about this type of disease posing any threat to oomans.[58]

On june 6th 1998, jeffrey almond, a long serving member of seac, went public with his concerns about bse-ose in Sheep. Perhaps he believed there was little alternative to publicizing the issue given the government’s refusal to listen to other scientists’ demands for such tests; its increasing reluctance to take action against pharmers’ interests; the sacking of jack cunningham, who was the only labour politician to show any understanding of bse-cjd; and the maffia’s reassertion of its control over the new secretary of state for agriculture, nick brown, who was all too obviously a rather excessive lover of brutish bseef. Perhaps almond wanted to see whether brown had a political backbone or was just a fat lump of lard. But almond was shrewd enough to realize that if he demanded tests on the prevalence of bse-ose in Sheep then the maffia would try to box him into a corner by suggesting the disease affected only particular Sheep organs. If this had been the case and bse-ose was found in Sheep the government would argue it needed to ban only a small number of Sheep organs i.e. those which just happened to be of low commercial value. So, rather remarkably, almond took pre-emptive action by stating that, unlike bse in Cattle, which supposedly infected only a limited number of (cheap) organs, bse-ose in Sheep infected all organs. Almond did not argue that bse-ose was present in Sheep blood - since this would have broken the scientific taboo that the tory and labour governments, and the maffia, had built up around the issue. However, from an economic point of view, the proposition that bse-ose infected all Sheep organs and that these ought to be removed, was practically equivalent to demanding a complete ban on the consumption of Sheep corpses because the cost of removing all organs would have rendered the corpses uneconomic, “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."”[60]

The scars that labour politicians publicly inflicted on jeffrey almond were so severe that few scientists were willing to openly challenge the government again over this issue. It took two years before they returned to the issue. On the july 5th 2000, stanley pruisner, the world’s foremost expert on prions, announced his belief that bse had spread to Sheep, “A nobel prize-winning scientist has warned that there is increasing evidence that bse is endemic in british Sheep. Research by stanley pruisner suggests that the infective prion agent that causes bse is found in sheep but at levels which have until now been undetectable. Last week he said, “The implication of our latest work is that bse is endemic throughout the british national sheep flock.”[61] Pruisner’s conclusion was, however, derived from experiments on bovinized Mice so should not be taken seriously.

At the end of october 2000, the food standard agency (fsa) repeated almond’s demand for the government to determine the prevalence of bse-ose amongst the country’s Sheep flocks. This was a remarkable interjection, “The UK's Food Standards Agency .. also wants a mass screening programme to test whether bse has spread from cattle to sheep. Fsa chairman John Krebbs told a press conference that whether or not sheep were contracting bse was an unanswered question. "We simply do not know," he said. "Of the 40 million sheep in Britain, some 4,000 do succumb annually to another disease, scrapie, which appears not to have any human health risk. It is possible, however, that some of these animals are actually suffering from bse."[62]; “A mass screening campaign to determine whether bse has spread to some of Britain's 40 million sheep should be carried out with "great urgency", the Food Standards Agency said yesterday. While bse has been passed to sheep under laboratory conditions it has never been found to have occurred naturally. But agency experts are worried because so few tests have been carried out. "As a matter of great urgency there is a need to develop and apply a rapid screening method so that large numbers of sheep can be tested," the agency said in a review of bse controls.”[63]

What was even more shocking about the fsa’s demands was that the Sheep industry was also beginning to suspect there could be a ban, “Meanwhile the government said it could ban consumption of all uk lamb if bse is confirmed in flocks. The national farmers union said destroying millions of sheep would be a “terrifying scenario”. But it said, “It would be far worse to do nothing and unleash a new wave of disease on humans.”[66]; “A spokesman for the National Farmers Union said farmers would have to face the "terrifying prospect" of entire flocks being destroyed if bse was discovered in sheep. "The nfu would be letting sheep farmers down, and farmers would be letting themselves down, if they did not contemplate this worst-case outcome," he said."[67] The Sheep industry had been hysterically denying the existence of bse-ose ever since the first hypothesis about such a disease had been formulated and yet here it was preparing Sheep pharmers for the worst.

In november 2000, the german government added to the pressure on the labour government over bse-ose in Sheep by threatening to ban the import of Lamb corpses, thereby indicating the seriousness with which the threat was regarded across the continent, “German health experts may ban british lamb and beef in the wake of the bse scare, it was revealed last night. Talks will take place in germany this week to discuss the idea.”[68]

The issue of bse in Sheep had been raised from the very start of the bse epidemic. It had rumbled on during the years when the tories had been in power. It continued to rumble on until the labour government bullied jeffrey almond, and the rest of the scientific community, into silence over the issue. However, a couple of years later the issue started being raised again by the scientific community. Towards the end of 2000, the issue was almost coming to a boil with the german government threatening to ban the importation of brutish Sheep, and the Sheep industry preparing pharmers for the worst case scenario.

The government had started an experiment in 1997 to determine whether Sheep killed during 1990-1992 had been infected with bse-ose. However, and this reveals the scale of the political manipulation involved in Animal experiments, no tests were carried out to determine the level of bse infection in the current Sheep population i.e. on Sheep currently going into the ooman feedchain.

After this failure, attempts were made to discover why the ‘wrong brains’ experiment went wrong, “Two independent investigations were launched yesterday into the "wrong brains" fiasco that wrecked an experiment to find whether bse had moved from cattle into the national sheep flock. As more than four year's research was ditched at the cost of £217,000 to the taxpayer, investigators were expected to examine the possibility of a simple laboratory labelling error being behind the blunder in which cows' brains were tested instead of brains from sheep.”[80]; “Scientists at the independent Institute for Animal Health in Edinburgh who began work in June 1997 thought they were using brains left from experiments on animal rendering. The brains, from 2,867 sheep dead of scrapie - a disease similar to bse but not thought harmful to humans, had been collected from 18 veterinary centres between 1990 and 1992 but not under stringent sterile procedures; this had already caused concern as to whether they had been contaminated.”[81] There is a suspicion that the material sent to the science lab for analysis was not from the original experiment, “The sheep brains offered the chance of establishing if it (bse) had ever taken hold in the national flock. The material had been turned to a paste, so a difference between cattle and sheep would not be obvious. It seems a pool of cattle brains was accidentally used instead, although researchers did run a test that indicated a sheep "signature". The paste was fed to mice and then material from the mice brains was fed to other mice. Researchers still worried by possible contamination say they sent material from the pool, but not necessarily from samples they tested, to the government's veterinary laboratories agency in Weybridge, Surrey. No bovine trace was found.”[82]

It has been noted that in 1988 the tory government banned meat and bone meal from feed given to Cattle and Sheep but it was only in march 1996 that the tories were forced to take measures which seemed to abolish cannibalism in the brutish Animal slavery industry. It wasn’t until january 3rd 1998, when jack cunningham banned “same species” feeding that it was realized this hadn’t been the case. But even the “same species” ban didn’t abolish cannibalism.

In 2000 the maffia was still continuing to allow the use of Cattle blood, gelatin, and tallow, in Cattle feed - so it's hardly surporising that Calves were still contracting bse. Steve dealler commented on a sunday times article of september 24th 2000 suggesting 8 Cattle born after the 1996 feed ban came into force, could have contracted bse, “One bse case has been confirmed and 8 are in the process of being histologically assessed that were born since the feed ban of 1996. This was not at all clear to be vertical transmission and so the recent reports suggesting that blood may be infectious in many species. (See Lacey 1991, Dealler 1993,4) suggested that these cases may well have been due to the feeding of cattle with blood. It was not realised by many people but blood and gelatin were felt to be of no infectivity by seac and hence were permitted to be fed to further cattle even when derived from bovine origins. The confirmed cow was born in August 1996 and records reveal that the farm was clear of meat and bone meal - the feed suspected of spreading bse. Also, the mother has showed no symptoms of bse. Maff data show that 22,000 tons of cow material including blood, gelatin and tallow are fed to cows each year. Harriet Kimball, the civil lawyer that is on seac said .. "we were assured that there is no infectivity in blood and so we allowed renderers to continue to use it in feedstuffs".[91]

On november 1st 2000, john krebbs of the food safety agency demanded the national screening of the country’s Sheep population, and the possible dismantling of the Sheep industry if Sheep were found to be infected with bse-ose. But he also insisted on the abolition of cannibalism in the Animal exploitation industry, “Food safety experts yesterday demanded a ban on ‘cannibalistic farm feeding methods. They fear giving blood, tallow, gelatin, chicken manure and feathers to livestock could spark a new bse epidemic. Livestock can no longer be fed recycled meat or bonemeal. But the food standards agency said this did not go far enough. It wants an end to the legal practice of putting animal waste in feed, or ‘intra-species recycling’. A ban on feeding feathers and chicken manure to poultry, and fish waste to fish should also be considered. A survey published yesterday by the co-op shows the public is disgusted by animal cannibalism.”[92]

One of the most remarkable facts about bse epidemic and the variety of tse diseases it created in other species, is that government scientists’ propositions about the progress and spread of these diseases were almost invariably wrong. Virtually all of their predictions about the course of the epidemic turned out to be wrong. Since december 1984, eighteen years ago, the maffia, under both the tory and the labour governments, have churned out dozens of predictions about the disease and all of them turned out to be erroneous. This cannot be a coincidence. It might be argued that scientific propositions about tses were just hypotheses which were bound to be superceded as more evidence was accumulated but it would be erroneous to regard the maffia’s hypotheses as anything more than political propaganda designed to prop up the Animal exploitation industry. This is because firstly, the maffia went out of its way to prevent evidence being discovered which would enable more empirical hypotheses to be formulated and, secondly, these propaganda statements were asserted with all the scientific gravitas of major scientific discoveries which needed no evidence.[93]

Brutland has become the laughing stock of the world for its handling of the bse crisis. The salmonella in eggs epidemic in 1987, the bse epidemic, and the 2001 f&m epidemic, has made it the centre for world epidemics. Ever since the start of the bse epidemic, most brutish citizens have regarded themselves as immune to the disease and carried on consuming good, old patriotic, brutish bseef. Consumer carnivores could continue their old habits perfectly content in their delusion that they faced no threat from the disease. However, the rest of the world is not quite so willing to accept such risky fantasies. As a consequence, brutish livestock are now finding themselves ostracized around the world over blood.

Seac has recommended a ban on the reuse of dental and medical instruments. What it is saying is that even the microscopic amounts of bse-cjd which might be left on medical instruments after washing and sterilization, might be sufficient to infect someone with bse-cjd from which they might eventually die. If people are at risk from such miniscule quantities of bse which remain after a rigorous sterilization process, how much more of a risk do they face eating a slab of meat which might contains thousands of times more bse? The demand for action over the reuse of medical instruments clearly indicates scientists' concern that the disease is present in blood and could be spread through blood. The government however has not acted upon seac’s recommendations. It is possible, therefore, that seac’s public statements are another scientific effort to warn the public, behind the government’s back, about the threat posed by bse-cjd. The government has pointed out that it has already issued private guidelines to dentists about the dangers of spreading bse-cjd so the fact that seac scientists are making their statement in public is possibly their way of indicating they are not happy with what the government is doing.

The following sections look at what the bse epidemic tells us about brutland.

After the events described above, is it any wonder the country’s politicians and scientists have become a laughing stock around the world? Right wing, pharmer loving, political commentators sought to condone the maffia's contradictory propaganda over bse as being typical of the marvels of political pragmatism, the brutish way of muddling through to a successful conclusion, but to outsiders it revealed the corruption of successive brutish governments. The cause of the bse and bse-cjd epidemics (and the f&m epidemic) was the corruption of the brutish political system brought about by the dominance of the landowning elite. Anthony browne has stated, “From Washington to Warsaw there is stupefaction at what one American commentator called 'a plague of biblical proportions' that has descended on Britain. Last week the influential Wall Street Journal devoted 3,000 words to spelling out what has gone wrong. In education, health and transport, Britain was 'outclassed' by its continental counterparts and the US, their correspondent concluded. An Irish Minister last Friday called the UK the 'leper of Europe'.”[97] What government in its right mind would decimate a colossal tourist industry, that requires no subsidies, just to ensure the survival of a £1 billion industry which survives only because of the vast subsidies it is given? 50% of the country’s pharmers are subsidy seekers. It’s economic madness. But then again, the mundi club doesn’t mind mcblair smashing up the economy.

In february 1998 john major made a speech widely seen as setting the political mood for another allied invasion of iraq. Major condemned saddam for having nuclear, biological, and chemical, weapons - but said nothing about the zionists' vast accumulation of weapons of mass destruction. However, no one seemed to appreciate the irony of john major making a speech condemning saddam for spreading lethal diseases around the world. It takes only half a teaspoonful of bse to kill a Cow, and possibly a similar amount of bse-cjd to kill a ooman, and yet, for the seven years of his premiership, major insisted that brutland should be allowed to export millions of bse-infected Cows, and hundreds of millions of tons of bse-infected corpses, around the world. Even saddam couldn’t possibly have imagined spreading such a lethal disease to such vast numbers of people/Animals over the entire surface of the Earth - especially with legal impunity since the wto’s free trade system prevents countries from banning the importation of diseased meat. There are now dozens of countries around the world with outbreaks of bse and doubtlessly bse-ose will also afflict many oomans. What difference is there between saddam using biological weapons on his own people and john major encouraging brutland, and the rest of the world, to eat bse-infected beef? As always with the leaders of the western world, hypocrisy, stupidity, and the perpetuation of injustice, is the order of the day.

It has become transparent that what the tory government did to protect the brutish bseef industry, tony mcblair has been doing for the Sheep industry. Just like thatcher before him he’s sacrificed people’s health for the sake of protecting the Animal exploitation industry. This is a good example of the transfer of sleaze from a decadent tory government to a decadent labour government. This is what constitutionalists would call ‘the renewal of the brutish political process’. New faces are inserted into the parliamentary system when its incumbents become too tainted with sleaze to enable the system to function efficiently. Bse was first spotted in december 1984 and it wasn’t until 1988 that the thatcher government took measures to reduce the spread of bse amongst the country’s Cattle herds. Mcblair became prime minister in may 1997 and, over five years later, he still hasn’t done anything to determine the existence or prevalence, of bse-ose in the Sheep industry. His record of protecting the Animal exploitation industry, and lavishing subsidies on pharmers, is even greater than that of margaret thatcher.

There were a few occasions when overseas’ politicians let rip about what they thought was going on in brutland - although it is remarkable that so few criticized what the country had been up to. In france, “The agriculture minister, jean glavany .. said britain was “morally” responsible for the spread of mad cow disease to the continent because it had allowed suspect animal feed to be exported. “It is our english friends who exported this evil. Morally they should be judged for that one day. They even allowed themselves the luxury of banning the use of such feed (in brutland) while allowing it to be exported. From a moral viewpoint that is unacceptable.””[98] A number of tory and labour politicians ought to be taken to court. Every Cow and every ooman outside brutland who dies from bse has been murdered as a result of policies enacted by the tory/labour, governments so they should be prosecuted for such crimes. The barbarity of what they did is truly appalling and reveals the true nature of euro-scepticism.

The greatest intellectual breakthrough in the Animal rights’ tradition was made by ronnie lee who pointed out that abattoirs are no different from nazi concentration camps. This was surely one of the most explosive ideas of the 20th century. It says much for his intellectual stature that lee could have made such a breakthrough. But there is no doubt that he was right. Those who work in and depend on the Animal exploitation industry are eco-nazis attempting to colonize the Earth and exterminate all other species, except those which are useful as slave Animals. The end result of oomano-imperialism is ooman-annihilation.