BSE?

[grassfarmer]

I was interested to read in the Alberta Agriculture beef cow-calf manual, initially printed in 1975, of the symptoms of one disease.
"animals become apprehensive, hyperexcitable, wander aimlessly, try to jump imaginary objects, stumble into objects, make chewing movements continuously causing foaming at the mouth, stay in abnormal postures and have muscle twitches etc etc"

BSE?? - no the disease is called "Organochloride poisoning" usually caused by exposure to insecticides with the cow ingesting the material by accident. One scenario listed is if an auger used to move treated seed is then used tomove feed grain.
And still no one will take Mark Purdeys theories seriously??

[kato]

Those can also be symtoms of rabies. Which is what makes the triple S approach so dangerous.

For that matter, ITEME (haemophilus) can make an animal pretty wonky as well.

[cowman]

I suspect Purdys theories have a lot going for them and in the end the truth will come out. Consider how it would look though if this whole worldwide mess could be blamed on the chemical/pharmeceutical companies? I mean we're talking about the heart and sole of the multinational corporate elite!
I think most people sense that you can't keep using poisons in the food chain without something happening. Hormones, anti-biotics, sprays, chemical fertilizers, preservatives. We've had about fifty years of this garbage and our water, air, soil are all contaminated. And the useage is increasing! We shouldn't wonder why people are questioning the "science" and are turning to organic.