-Caveat Lector-
From: Cosmic Comentary - http://CosmicRose.tripod.com/CCC.html
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In connection with this, a rather cynical UK newspaper article suggested the
"slaughter of all people" within the vicinity of any one person who had been
infected, using a similar style to the reporting of a proposed mass cull of
pigs, cows & sheep. Makes you think, doesn't it!
Best wishes
Richard<<<<
STATEMENT FROM COSMIC COMMENTARY:
I firmly believe the slaughter of animals worldwide(with 'disease' used as
the reason) is an effort to gain further control of the food supply,
whereupon more of the 'useless eaters' can be gotten rid of. That is just my
opinion of course;^}
I have heard it said several times now that the foot and mouth disease does
not affect humans, so why the panic over it? And if the animals were taken
care of as noted below it would not be a concern for them either. Ahhh but
the techniques of animal husbandry related below would cramp the corporate
farms style, wouldn't it?
Steve M.
"Should I keep back my opinions through fear of giving offense, I
should consider myself as guilty of treason toward my country and an
act of disloyalty toward the majesty of Heaven, which I revere above
all earthly kings." --Patrick Henry
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Begin forwarded article from:
http://www.whatareweswallowing.freeserve.co.uk/footquestions.htm
VIRUS HYPOTHESIS IN QUESTION
STOP THE SLAUGHTER
Despite the everyday 'virus' stories issuing forth from Pirbright Animal
Health Institute and other government agencies responsible for the
management of the so-called crisis, there is growing evidence that foot and
mouth is not viral in nature.
This page looks at well-sourced contrary information on foot and mouth that
points to environmental factors playing a major role in this condition.
Were environmental factors found to be at the root of foot and mouth, this
would have severe implications for the highly lucrative 'virus and vaccine'
theory.
Visitors to the Soil And Health Library are given opportunity to read
accurately rendered, unabridged texts of carefully-selected older books
whose importance and contemporary relevance has not diminished.
Albert Howard, an Honorary Fellow of the Imperial College of Science, was
formerly the Director of the Institute of Plant Industry and Agricultural
Adviser to States in Central India and Rajputana. His many years farming
experience and research into cattle disease and health led him to believe
quite firmly that FMD is an opportunistic disease arising as a result of
poor diet combined with intensive and therefore unhealthy farming methods.
Howard's battle to estabish these facts were at first thwarted by his
superiors. We discover that vested interests were alive and well in the
early part of the 20th century, just as they are today. Please read the
following concise and very illuminating section. Links to the relevent
unabridged chapters can be found at the bottom of this page.
What you are about to read leaves some very awkward questions for MAFF,
Pirbright and the UK government.
FARMING AND GARDENING
FOR
HEALTH OR DISEASE
by
SIR ALBERT HOWARD C.I.E., M.A.
Honorary Fellow of the Imperial College of Science,
Formerly Director of the Institute of Plant Industry,
Indore, and Agricultural Adviser to States
in Central India and Rajputana
assisted by
LOUISE E. HOWARD
FABER AND FABER LIMITED
24 Russell Square London
1945
PREFACE.
The earth's green carpet is the sole source of the food consumed by
livestock and mankind. It also furnishes many of the raw materials needed by
our factories. The consequence of abusing one of our greatest possessions is
disease. This is the punishment meted out by Mother Earth for adopting
methods of agriculture which are not in accordance with Nature's law of
return......
CHAPTER IX
DISEASE AND HEALTH LIVESTOCK
About the year 1910, after five years' first-hand experience of crop
production under Indian conditions, I became convinced that the birthright
of every crop is health and that the correct method of dealing with disease
at an experiment station is not to destroy the parasite, but to make use of
it for tuning up agricultural practice.
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE
If this holds for plants, why should it not apply to animals? I therefore
put forward a request to have my own work cattle, so that my small farm of
seventy-five acres could be a self-contained unit. I was anxious to select
my own animals, to design their accommodation, and to arrange for their
feeding, hygiene, and management. Then it would be possible to see: (1) what
the effect of properly grown food would be on the well fed working animal;
and (2) how such livestock would react to infectious diseases. This request
was refused several times on the ground that a research institute like Pusa
should set an example of co-operative work rather than of individualistic
effort.
I retorted that agricultural advances had always been made by individuals
rather than by groups and that the history of science proved conclusively
that no progress had ever taken place without freedom. I did not get my
oxen. But when I placed the matter before the Member of the Viceroy's
Council in charge of agriculture (the late Sir Robert Carlyle, K.C.S.I.), I
immediately secured his powerful support and was allowed to have charge of
six pairs of oxen.
I had little to learn in this matter, as I belong to an old agricultural
family and was brought up on a farm which had made for itself a local
reputation for the management of cattle. My animals were most carefully
selected for the work they had to do and for the local climate. Everything
was done to provide them with suitable housing and with fresh green fodder,
silage, and grain, all produced from fertile soil. They soon got into good
fettle and began to be in demand at the neighbouring agricultural shows, not
as competitors for prizes, but as examples of what an Indian ox should look
like. The stage was then set for the project I had in view, namely, to watch
the reaction of these well chosen and well fed oxen to diseases like
rinderpest, septicaemia, and foot-and-mouth disease, which frequently
devastated the countryside and sometimes attacked the large herds of cattle
maintained on the Pusa Estate.
I always felt that the real cause of such epidemics was either starvation,
due to the intense pressure of the bovine population on the limited food
supply, or, when food was adequate, to mistakes in feeding and management.
The working ox must always have not only good fodder and forage, but ample
time for chewing the cud, for rest, and for digestion. The grain ration is
also important, as well as a little fresh green food--all produced by
intensive methods of farming. Access to clean fresh water must also be
provided. The coat of the working animal must also be kept clean and free
from dung.
The next step was to discourage the official veterinary surgeons who often
visited Pusa from inoculating these animals with various vaccines and sera
to ward off the common diseases. I achieved this by firmly refusing to have
anything to do with such measures, at the same time asking these specialists
to inspect my animals and to suggest measures to improve their feeding,
management, and housing, so that my experiment could have the best possible
chance of success. This carried the day. The veterinarians retired from the
unequal contest and took no steps to compel me to adopt their remedies.
My animals then had to be brought in contact with diseased stock. This was
done by allowing them: (1) to use the common pastures at Pusa, on which
diseased cattle sometimes grazed, and (2) to come in direct contact with
foot-and-mouth disease. This latter was easy, as my small farmyard was only
separated from one of the large cattle sheds of the Pusa Estate by a low
hedge over which the animals could rub noses. I have often seen this occur
between my oxen and foot-and-mouth cases. Nothing happened. The healthy,
well-fed animals reacted to this disease exactly as suitable varieties of
crops, when properly grown, did to insect and fungus pests--no infection
took place. Neither did any infection occur as the result of my oxen using
the common pastures.
This experiment was repeated year after year between 1910 and 1923, when I
left Pusa for Indore. A somewhat similar experience was repeated at Quetta
between the years 1910 and 1918, but here I had only three pairs of oxen. As
at Pusa, the animals were carefully selected and great pains were taken to
provide them with suitable housing, with protection from the intense cold of
winter, and with the best possible food. Again no precautions were taken
against disease and no infection took place.
The most complete demonstration of the principle that soil fertility is the
basis of health in working animals took place at the Institute of Plant
Industry at Indore, where twenty pairs of oxen were maintained. Again, the
greatest care was taken to select sound animals to start with, to provide
them with a good water supply, a comfortable, well-ventilated shed, and
plenty of nutritious food, all raised on humus-filled soil. One detail of
cattle-shed management was the provision of a floor of beaten earth, which
is much more restful for the cloven hoof than a cement or brick floor. This
was changed every three months, the dry, powdered, urine- impregnated soil
afterwards being used as an activator in humus production, for which it
proved most suitable. In this way it was possible to bank the spare urine
under cover without loss by rain-wash or fermentation........ The result of
all this was a complete absence of foot-and-mouth and other diseases for a
period of six years.
But this is not the whole of the foot-and-mouth story. When the 300 acres of
land at Indore were taken over in the autumn of 1924, the area carried no
fodder crops, so the feeding of forty oxen was at first very difficult.
During the hot weather of 1925 these difficulties became acute. A great deal
of heavy work was falling on the animals, whose food consisted of wheat
straw, dried grass, and millet stalks, with a small ration of crushed cotton
seed. Such a ration might do for maintenance, but it was quite inadequate
for heavy work. The animals soon lost condition and for the first and last
time in my twenty-five years' Indian experience I had to deal with a few
very mild cases of foot-and-mouth disease in the case of some dozen animals.
The patients were rested for a fortnight and given better food, when the
trouble disappeared never to return. But this warning stimulated everybody
concerned to improve the hot-weather cattle ration and to secure a supply of
properly made silage for 1926, by which time the oxen had recovered
condition. From 1927 to 1931 these animals were often exhibited at
agricultural shows as type specimens of what the local breed should be. They
were also in great demand for the religious processions which took place in
Indore city from time to time, a compliment which gave intense pleasure to
the labour staff of the Institute.
This experience, covering a period of twenty-six years at three widely
separated centres--Pusa in Bihar and Orissa, Quetta on the Western Frontier,
and Indore in Central India--convinced me that foot-and-mouth disease is a
consequence of malnutrition pure and simple, and that the remedies which
have been devised in countries like Great Britain to deal with the trouble,
namely, the slaughter of the affected animals, are both superficial and also
inadmissible. Such attempts to control an outbreak should cease.
Cases of foot-and-mouth disease should be utilized to tune up practice and
to see to it that the animals are fed on the fresh produce of fertile soil.
The trouble will then pass and will not spread to the surrounding areas,
provided the animals there are also in good fettle. Foot- and-mouth
outbreaks are a sure sign of bad farming. How can such preventive methods of
dealing with diseases like foot-and- mouth be set in motion? Only by a
drastic reorganization of present-day veterinary research. Instead of the
elaborate and expensive laboratory investigations now in progress on this
disease, which are not leading to any practical result, a simple preventive
trial on the following lines should be started. The animals should be
carefully selected to suit the local conditions and should first of all be
got into first-class fettle by proper feeding and management. Everything
will then be ready for a simple experiment in disease prevention. A few
foot-and-mouth cases should be let loose among the herds, the reaction of
both healthy and diseased animals being carefully watched. The diseased
animals will soon recover. There will most likely be no infection of the
healthy stock. At the worst there will only be the mildest possible attack
which will disappear in a fortnight or so."
www.soilandhealth.org
****************
Hello Steven,
I have sent the enclosed to all Australian federal politicians and dozens of
Australian media outlets regarding the another approach to the Foot & Mouth
situation. You are at liberty to use it if you so wish.
My name is Trevor Osborne. I was trained as an agricultural scientist and
farm advisor in the UK in the early 1950's. This was the time when the
chemical farming era just began. We were taught age old methods that worked
with nature, not against it as we now do. Pests and diseases were controlled
naturally by what was known as good husbandry... both crop husbandry and
animal husbandry. The premise was, if your soils are healthy, then your
crops will be healthy. If your crops are healthy then your animals will be
healthy (see below). Healthy crops and animals have natural resistance to
all disease. If it were not the case those species would have died out aeons
ago. Nature does not rely on drugs and mass slaughter to control diseases,
it relies on the species natural immunity and they survive because that's
the way nature works... when you let it! It seems we have chosen to ignore
the lessons we learned over many centuries. How long is it going to take for
humanity to wake up to this fact? What we need to do is learn and practice
"health creation" not "disease eradication" both in agriculture and in human
health. Then, and only then will be start to reverse the disastrous
situation we find ourselves in both sectors.
This brings me to the current Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD) situation. FMD is
not a fatal disease under normal classification methods. It is akin to flu
in humans... yes, people can die from it but usually only the weak, elderly
and undernourished. In other words those people whose immune systems are
low. Simplistically, the same applies to FMD... those animals with very weak
immune systems may die. Those with weak immune systems will suffer the
symptoms and then recover. Those with strong immune systems will not even
exhibit the symptoms.
This being the case the obvious LONG TERM answer to the problem is, build
the immune system of the animals. And this is done by practising good
husbandry. This doesn't mean we have to go back 50 or 100 years. No, it is
about using what we know of the old, and combining it with the new. For
example, it is well know in some circles that most agricultural soils have
been depleted of certain minerals and humus... both of which are necessary
for healthy and nutritious crops. There is a quick and economic answer to
this. It involves applying mineral-rich volcanic rock dust and organic
carbon to the soils. Two companies I know of in Australia are involved in
this, there are probably more in other counties:
1. International Mineral Consultants Pty Ltd: www.minplus.com.au/
2. Sustainable Agriculture & Food Enterprises Pty. Ltd.
www.mineralfertiliser.com.au/
To supplement my above statements I have attached a document taken from
Hansard (Australian Parliament records) and one from the US Congress both of
which elude to the importance of soils to animal & human health. If you
require more evidence regarding the above please contact me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I hope this brief overview may provide you with an inkling of where we are
collectively heading and what needs to be done to change to a win-win-win
direction.
Regards... Trevor Osborne, NDA
*************
This site is having further information and links added all the time. If you
have a qualified opinion and/or experience of animal husbandry and can
testify to the above information, please send us your information to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We call for a complete halt to the needless slaughter of UK livestock. The
scientific testing equipment used by the veterinary agencies to detect the
so -called foot and mouth virus has a proven track record of false
diagnoses.
Enough evidence exists to doubt the current viral theory of Foot and Mouth.
We request that controlled trials be set up to confirm the scientific
position adopted by the conventional authorities.
We also request that readers make this information known to the local media,
to national media and to the farmers in their district.
The senseless slaughter must stop.
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