<Michael Smith and Markness broke this story to BD Now! back in the spring. Sad to say, I didn't really grok its implications until I heard Mark Purdy speak at ACRES last week and got to spend some time with him throughout the rest of the weekend.
The details of Mark's efforts to track down the source of BSE and related 'diseases' is inspiring. He has funded his own research, has suffered government supported harassment, has lost both his vet and his attorney to mysterious single car accidents, and now, for all intents and purposes, lives in hiding. The ramifications of the ruthlessness of governments working in collusion with chemical companies that he has revealed (the abuse of public health and trust continues, of course) are almost unbearable to consider. As pointed out in this article, when corporations work in collusion with governments, both successes and catastrophies can be equally rewarding to them. (Never forget: the Exxon Valdez oilspill registered as a positive on the GNP.) The effects of BSE on the British cattlemen was devestating, motivating, as I understand, many suicides and ruining many farms. It goes without saying that the same forces that have created and controlled the BSE catastrophe are the forces behind the movement to innoculate Americans against Anthrax and Small Pox. Now is the time to start working on developing deferrals to save yourself and your loved ones from another public health effort that is guided only by its potential for massive profits. -AB>. from: http://www.vegan.swinternet.co.uk/mainpages/magazines_frame.html In 1986, in Britain, the first recorded case was recognised of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), a new disease which was affecting the nervous systems of cattle, causing Parkinsonian/ dementia-like symptoms. The official cause was identified by the Ministry for Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF) as cross-contamination of a previously known sheep disease called Scrapie via cattle feeds which contained meat and bone meal from sheep. By 1996, the numbers of cows said to have been infected with BSE had risen to 27,800, despite the ban on meat feeds for cattle in 1989. The increasing incidence of a similar disease in humans called Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease (CJD), in which the brain becomes mushroom-like and full of holes causing sufferers to become gradually more confused until death, has been blamed upon the consumption of infected beef products. Therefore, a mass slaughter of British cattle was initiated in 1996 in order to resolve the problem. BSE has also infected many other animals such as domestic cats, birds of prey and zoo animals given infected meat. Despite assurances that BSE was confined to very few cases, the number of cases of CJD has increased in England from 27 in 1985, to 42 in 1994, and 55 in 1995. Significantly, there are three recognised types of CJD (the types 1 and 2 being similar to Alzheimer's Disease with confusion and memory loss as the main symptoms) whereas the cases of CJD since 1985 have been mainly of a new type-3 (which is indicated by additional loss of muscle co-ordination and balance). This is essentially the story which has been fed to the mass public via the media and has caused a panic among consumers who have begun to avoid British beef products. It even initiated what was described in the press as a "trade war" with Europe spearheaded by the British Prime Minister John Major in a typical "white knight" fashion. The truth of the situation is far more sinister and has implications for everyone, meat eaters and vegetarians alike. The discovery was made by organic farmer, Mark Purdy. That is, BSE and type-3 CJD is caused not by an entirely new form of infection (called a prion by the investigating scientists) but is caused by poisoning by organo-phosphate fertilisers. Several inconsistencies have been conveniently overlooked by the "experts" investigating this case: 1) that no organic farmer (those not using chemicals such as pesticides) has had a case of BSE despite using the same meat/bone-meal feeds as everyone else, and 2) that despite virtually the whole of Europe using these same feeds, there have been very few cases of BSE on the continent. So it can hardly be the Scrapie-contaminated feed, can it? During the Second World War, I.G. Farben (the Nazi chemical company responsible for Zyclon B which was allegedly used to gas the Jews in the Holocaust and who used the inmates of Auschwitz as slave labour and as guinea pigs for testing of chemicals) developed a fluorinated nerve gas known as Sarin which was also used by the Iraquis during the Gulf War. This is an organo-phosphate (OP) compound which is very similar to that used by farmers in low concentrations to spray crops and dip sheep to prevent tick infestation, but it is used in much higher concentrations to treat cattle against warble-fly infestation. In the 1980s, the MAFF began a war against the warble fly and imposed a mode of treatment upon Britain's farmers. This was that twice a year a preparation of OP concentrate be poured over the backs of all cattle. The OP is fat-soluble and is therefore absorbed by cow through the skin for a systemic effect to occur. Subsequently, an imprecise amount of OP is absorbed and the area most exposed to the compound is the spinal column i.e. directly into the central nervous system. The OP kills the warble fly by attacking the nervous system. The reported cases of BSE have been in the areas of warble fly infestation. It has been established that, in cases of BSE, the prion protein in the brain becomes corrupted and mutates causing the familiar spongy brain situation. It has also been established that OPs bind to prion protein causing brain cells to mutate in a chain reaction. - as has been established in the case of the OP, Thalamide, a constituent of Thalidomide, which caused massive birth deformities in the late 60s and early 70s. Human brains also contain prion proteins! Cases of BSE have been significantly higher in Switzerland and Northern Ireland. These countries have one other thing in common with mainland Britain, that is: they also use OPs - predominantly the compound Phosmet - in a strength which is four times that of the rest of Europe. For several years now, many British farmers using OPs have been developing a severely debilitating condition which is not officially recognised despite the many claims and obvious links to OPs. The symptoms which are displayed in this syndrome are: severe malaise and fatigue, chest pain, Parkinson-like tremors and other nervous disorders. However, organic farmers are not affected by this "mysterious" syndrome. Up to more than 25 times the allowed amounts of OPs have been found in conventionally grown carrots in England. The investigations by (MAFF) showed that, in 8% of carrots, the contents were higher than the international Maximum Residue Level (MRL) limit. OPs both attack the brain and weaken the immune system and are undoubtedly a major factor in the 20th Century disease process such as the increasing incidence of recurrent infections and the immuno-suppressive diseases such as AIDS. The most significant lab tests using this theory have been performed, initiated by Purdey's, research by the Government's Medical Research Council in Britain but have shown to be inconclusive. However, the MRC have admitted that they have not been using actual prion proteins for these tests, but have been experimenting on synthetic prion proteins! Could this be because it was the British Government, through MAFF, in the 1980s who made OPs compulsory and therefore caused BSE? If the truth were accepted then there would be grounds for the recovery of huge sums of money in damages claims both from the government and from the petrochemical producers of the OPs themselves, such as Wellcome and ICI. The Government has clearly been using the BSE crisis in Britain to achieve a political agenda. In Britain, the PM is seen as the saviour of the British beef industry, whilst on the continent he has created a situation of alienation of Britain in the so-called "beef war" which could well develop into a swell of public opinion for further integration into Europe in order to reap the financial benefits of compensation for the crisis. Thousands of cattle have been slaughtered at a cost of millions of pounds (all profit for the world bankers) and GDP figures have benefited enormously. Meanwhile, the true cause of CJD is kept well hidden.
