OT: FMD: A conspiracy to kill off the countryside

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Many of you know of my involvement in the lies over here called foot and

mouth (and of Whaleto is involved also). Here is an extremely good

article! As you know I'm opposed to vaccines of people and animals. But

dead is dead here and at least vaccination would stop them from being dead.

But that's another story. So bizarre.

Sheri

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http://www.whale.to/m/booker.html

A conspiracy to kill off the countryside

Booker

Daily Mail Aug 7, 2001

TO THOSE of us who have been trying to follow the details of the

foot-and-mouth crisis since it began in February, there have always been two

great mysteries.

The first Is why the Government's response has been so astonishingly

incompetent. Everything it has done has seemed designed, not to bring the

disease rapidly to an end, but to kill as many animals as possible and so

inflict maximum damage on Britain's small livestock farmers.

The second mystery has been why the Government's propaganda machine has been

so consistent in its efforts to blacken the farmers and, wherever possible

blame them as the real cause of the problem.

In recent days, we have seen the spin doctors again upping the ante, with

off-the-record briefings about farmers paying money to have their farms

infected in order to get compensation. Then followed leaks about the '37

farmers who have become millionaires' on cheques from the ministry..

But this has only been the latest instalment in a black propaganda campaign

which goes back to March, when, repeatedly, it has been claimed farmers

themselves were somehow the villains of the story.

Most bizarre has been the Government's continued accusation that farmers

were spreading the disease by fall-are to observe strict hygiene

precautions, while evidence has poured In from every affected area that no

one has been more recklessly irresponsible about 'biosecurity' than the

Government's own officials and employees.

And all this has taken place against the background of a strategy for

tackling the disease which has left every International authority on

foot-and-mouth totally baffled by its nonsensical impracticality. Experts

such as Professor Fred Brown, an Eng1ishman who now works for the American

government, have been nonplussed by the Government's unprecedented

'contiguous cull policy', under which millions of animals have been killed

Just because they are on farms within 'three kilometres' of a case of

infection.

They have also been amazed by the Government's refusal to use a full-scale

vaccination programme, which, they argue, was the only conceivable way to

end what has now mushroomed into the worst epidemic of foot-and-mouth ever

recorded.

The more these two mysteries are puzzled over, the more they always seem to

come down in the end to one question: is the real explanation for the

Government s seemingly inexplicable conduct that it is working to a hidden

agenda?

As the epidemic enters Its seventh month, there is no longer any doubt

that -despite those much-vaunted compensation payments -tens of thousands of

small live-stock producers have been so traumatised that they will be

getting out of farming for ever. Already the total number of animals

destroyed is over six million - one in ten of all the farm animals In

Britain.

If the epidemic continues well into next year, as seems likely; the eventual

reduction in Britain's livestock population could be as high as one in five.

And is this, we have to ask, what the Government is really after? Is the

real, unspoken purpose of the way it has played this crisis to ensure a

massive reduction in the numbers of both animals, particularly sheep, and

the farming families who depend on them for their livelihood?

Long before foot-and-mouth appeared, it was clear that this Government was

not only unsympathetic to Britain's-countryside, but actively hostile to

much of what it was thought to represent. The rural areas of Britain were

the very embodiment of those 'forces of conservatism' which Mr Blair's

Government was to destroy.

It just happened this ideological prejudice dovetailed very neatly with what

had long been the scarcely veiled conviction of senior officials in the

former Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF -now the Department

for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs or DEFRA) that British agriculture

needed 'radical restructuring', to make it more 'efficient' and 'productive'

..

Strategy

What they meant by this was that Britain's farming should be concentrated

into larger, more 'efficient' units.

And nothing stood in the way of this more than those hundreds of thousands

of small 'inefficient' livestock farmers of the kind who have been in the

front line of this disaster.

In this overall strategy for the future of British agriculture, MAFF has had

no closer ally than the National Farmers Union (NFU).

The NFU is often misunderstood as representing British-farming as a whole.

In fact, it's an organisation wholly controlled by large farming interests,

from the 'barley barons' of East Anglia to big intensive livestock

producers, who regard farms as factories. They have nothing whatever In

common with those impoverished hill farmers of Cumbria or Wales.

The tragic fact is that the foot-and-mouth epidemic has appeared to MAFF and

the NFU as what is known as a 'beneficial crisis', an event which may look

in the short-term like a disaster, but which actually provides the catalyst

for achieving longer-term benefits.

In this respect, the long-term strategists of MAFF and the NFU could not

have found a more natural ally than the Government, combining hatred of the

countryside with a sentimental fascination for anything presented as 'modern

' and 'efficient'.

It was particularly telling that the only moment when ministers briefly

flirted with the idea of vaccination, as the way of bringing the epidemic

quickly to an end, was back in March and April when Mr Blair began to panic

that the crisis might interfere with his General Election plans.

But this was scuppered by MAFF and the NFU who forced vaccination back off

the agenda, accompanied by a massive disinformation campaign in which almost

every point they made to discredit it either had no scientific basis or was

simply a lie.

There was never any intention in MAFF or the NFU that this crisis should be

solved in the way the genuine scientific experts were recommending-because

it would not satisfy that hidden agenda, that as many of Britain's small

livestock farmers should be driven out of business as possible.

Slaughter

That is why, even now, tens of thousands of animals are still being killed

every week on the hills of South Wales and Cumbria, and why ministry

officials are preparing to test countless more, from Yorkshire to the West

Country, well aware they will find enough 'antibodies' to justify continuing

the slaughter for months to come. What they may not have reckoned with is

the appalling environmental and social cost which will follow the wiping out

of the animals which keep those areas looking picturesque for the tourists,

or the wider costs to Britain's economy already estimated to have reached

=A320 billion.

But it is only appropriate that the Government's contempt for the

countryside should have led it into a catastrophe for which, one day it may

have to pay a terrible political price.

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