Why test?

[per]

It appears to be that this conversation has been taking place for longer than we have been around.

"In sciences that are base on supposition and opinion...the object is to command assent, not master the thing itself."

Francis Bacon 1620

[Willowcreek]

Your ABP/CCA must have the same Kool-Aide supplier as the NCBA has!!!!

Or they are all in the same multinational Packers pockets!!!

[Kathy]

Why test? Which test? Who owns the test will determine when we test! Right now, Canada (ie: government of Canada) has no test of its own, and until they do, they are not likely to let Canadian ranchers test.

The BIO-RAD TSE test kit was developed by the CEA "Commission Energie Atomique" of France. According to BioRads site, they co-developed this test procedure. However, I read somewhere that CEA developed it and sold the rights to Bio-Rad in California, for North American.

Bio-Rad link: http://www.bio-rad.com/B2B/BioRad/product/br_category.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1802450438.120880 1460@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccccadedlkjehkhcfngcfkmdhkkdf ll.0&categoryPath=/Catalogs/Food%20|%20Animal%20|%20Environment%20Testing/TSE%20Testing&divName=Food%20|%20Animal%20|%20Envi ronment%20Testing&language=English&country=HQ

"Scientific Collaboration With the CEA (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique — France)
Through our scientific collaboration with CEA’s scientists, Bio-Rad has developed original high-performance assays to diagnose TSE in infected animals. This original approach has allowed Bio-Rad to continually propose suitable solutions to the new challenges that arise in the BSE crisis."

BIO-RAD is the french version for the terminology "Radiation Biology". Start thinking:

Chernobyl fallout April 26, 1986 -
nuclear weapons and bomb testing -
uranium mining and environmental contamination - depleted uranium nanoparticles

www.markpurdey.com www.purdeyenvironment.com

Read some of Mark's articles on how CWD originated out of two USA military facilities (White Sands Missile Range, NM and Fort Collins, CO).

The BSE TheoryThe White Sands Missile Range is an extensive spread of US military ..... roaming the same Front Range foothills around Fort Collins where CWD is so rife. ...
www.markpurdey.com/the_bse_theory.htm

[smcgrath76]

I think there may be some difficulty in keeping the lid on this one, as there are now some commercial DNA tests (SNP based) for BSE susceptibility (not technically a BSE test). I suppose this will raise the issue in spades when the first cattle are marketed as test not suceptible.