Organophates and "Mad Cow Disease?"
Bill Liebhardt (wcliebhardt@ucdavis.edu)
Thu, 30 Apr 1998 10:13:55 -0700
>I think you will be interested in this. Bill Liebhardt
>
>Subject: Organophates and "Mad Cow Disease?"
>
>Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 22:12:07 +0100
>Reply-To: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy <BSE-L@RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE>
>Sender: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy <BSE-L@RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE>
>From: "E.C.Apling" <E.C.Apling@btinternet.com>
>Subject: Letter from Lord Walsingham
>
>The following letter was published in the Eastern Daily Press (Norwich)
today under headline in bold 24pt over half page width:
>-------quote-------
>Cover-up over BSE evidence
>LORD WALSINGHAM,
>The Hassocks, Merton.
>
>Full marks for Jim Sutherland and three cheers for the Scottish Sheriff who
has in open court taken Farm Minister Jack Cunningham's ban of beef on the
bone to pieces.
>
>The Ministry of Agriculture has already forfeited all credibility because
of its dishonest cover-up of the evidence on BSE. It has now admitted that
Mark Purdey's challenge blaming organophosphate insecticides should be
properly researched, which is a covert admission of earlier dishonesty. I do
not believe its position can be explained by honest error. We can also see,
by the way, that departments make policy and the second-rate Jacks, with
their political speak, drawing ministerial pay, mostly don't count.
>
>Anyone who has closely followed the BSE scandal over the last two years can
see Dr Cunningham's ban of beef on the bone was not because of any practical
risk of catching CJD. You would be more likely, on their own theory even,
to be struck by lightning in a world where lightning has never struck before
than to get CJD from a T-bone steak!
>
>It was a cynical political move sold to the minister as likely to improve
our chances of getting the EU to withdraw its bann on our beef. There was a
further hidden agenda to preserve the false infective animalfeed theory when
CJD victims born after the ban on infective beef die (as they soon must) by
putting forward a residual infection route. The born-after-the-ban cows were
explained away by farmers deliberately feeding their stock with infective
feed after the ban and then by infection in utero from infected cows since
culled before showing symptoms. Human mums are likely to challenge such
explanations.
>
>A residual infection route was therefore essential to be put in place to
save the infective theory. As long as this prevarication continues and the
environment continues to be soused in organophosphates without proper
control, youngsters genetically vulnerable will continue to die horribly,
and at the same rate as before the original beef measures and the cow killing
>
>---------end of quote--------
>============================================================
>Edward.C.APLING
>BSc, CChem, MChemA, FRSC, FIFST, MRSH
>Professional Member, American Association of Cereal Chemists
>Professional Member, Institute of Food Technologists (USA)
>Lecturer in Food Science, University of Reading, 1962-1986
>email: E.C.Apling@btinternet.com
>
>
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