On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:24:26 +0000, amacmil304@aol.com wrote:

Give it up, guys
Campaigning against battery-farming is all very well. But better by
far not to eat chicken at all
Andrew Tyler

Hen and cockney: celebrity chef Jamie Oliver with a feathered friend

The truth can no longer be dodged. Livestock farming gobbles up
agricultural land, water and energy that could far more efficiently be
devoted to growing food for people to eat directly. Meat, therefore,
is a rich person's food and those who consume it - whether in India,
Denmark or England - cause malnourishment and death among the world's
poorest people.

When Animal Aid launched the first Veggie Month 15 years ago (the 2008
celebration begins March 1), hard evidence as to the impact of
meat-eating on the lives of impoverished people was mainly confined to
arcane journals. Today, the evidence showers down upon us like
hailstones. Do we put up our umbrellas and disregard the signs or do
we change direction?

http://www.npa-uk.org.uk/

March 2

LONDON RALLY, March 4

Why the spotlight is on Asda

Whilst many retailers have made sympathetic noises about increasing prices,
the American giant Wal-Mart has insisted it will continue to put pressure on
suppliers.

This policy, driven from the United States, hangs over the industry like the
grim reaper. For as long as Asda maintains this aggressive stance it is
difficult for other retailers to translate their support into positive
action.

It is for this reason that we will be giving Asda some special attention
both at the rally and subsequently. Some special placards will be available.

Pat's Note: ...and some farmers are daft enough to pay this lot protection
money supposedly for using the Freedom Food label. but really because they
believe it will help keep Defra's bent vets off their backs.

Actually, it isn't ususally farmers, but factory farm conglomerates
pretending to be farmers and the RSPCA rather gave the game away by
admitting that their standards are only an aspiration.

It is a huge joke, isn't it?

Fortunately, we do have robust Courts who are by now well aware of the poor
quality of the RSPCA evidence. That protects the innocent from a uniformed
veterinary paramilitary force.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/03/02/do0202.xml

Victims of RSPCA bite back

By Christopher Booker
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 02/03/2008

Parliament Square saw a highly unusual demonstration on February 13. Robed
Hindu priests joined with farmers and animal lovers to protest at the
killing by the RSPCA of a sacred cow, Gangotri, at a Hindu temple in
Hertfordshire.

...Red Coats, on horseback, with a mob of foxhounds, straying all over
the place including my land. Well I can tell you that I gave them a
ear bashing. But I was wondering - isn't that activity suppost to be
illegal? The dogs were all over the place following fox scents of
course like they do.

DONT COME ON MY LAND AGAIN YOU SICK BWITISH SADISTIC RITUAL ABUSERS

IS THAT QUITE FUKING WELL CLEAR

BLESSED BE

ENGLISH TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY!

BBC's Country File programme is currently running a report on GM crops
in animal feed. And claiming that Europe is taking so long to approve GM
varieties for import as animal feed that imports would be shut off: not
an approved variety, and zero tolerance for contamination.

So far, the reporter seems to be aware of the way some figures can be
misleading--yes, GM is only 2%% of world production, but it's most of the
available soya.

And the conclusion? We either start being less picky about GM crops, or
we end up importing far more meat, which is fed on GM crops anyway.

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 07:33:25 +0000, Malcolm
indaal.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Or when you yourself posted this little gem relishing the wholesale
slaughter of an endangered species?

" Hurrah! High time that these nazi hedgehog invaders which have been
killing off the local birds are got rid of.

And, of course, you are wrong, as usual. The extermination programme
has been brought forward and is about to start :-)) "

On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:30:43 +0000, amacmil304@aol.com wrote:

Pat's Note: Here, tucked away is something of real interest to British
investigators of PMWS1999, CSF2000 and FMD2001, not to mention MRSAwhenever.

The industry is never too keen to mention that an uncounted and unknown
proportion of British pigs are not only not owned by the farmers who look
after them, but not even owned by Britons.

CSF and FMD compensation was going to non-British corporations in very large
chunks, leaving British farmers broke and needing charity.

Who is the patriot and friend of British farming now?

Some Canadians were very prominent too.

It was not just Lord Black that was skipping from capital to capital with
capital and capitalising on the situation.

http://www.thepigsite.com/swinenews/17213/market-preview-canada-launches-culling...

...Numbers Missed the Mark
How was USDA so far off in its Dec. 1 inventory of market hogs? We don't
know the answer to that. Circovirus vaccine may have played a role, but we
need to remember that circovirus vaccine impacts the survival of pigs to
market weight, not the number of pigs born. So it should impact the number
of heavy-weight pigs that were in the market herd at any point in time, and
it doesn't appear that USDA got nearly enough of those counted in December.

Pat's Note:

It couldn't be Britain, could it?

The last government vet to get sent home was when I complained to Mr Speaker
about attempts to intimidate us as a witnesses to Parliament. The vet later
was cleared in a closed enquiry and got promoted.

Anyway, OLAF, the serious fraud squad of the EU know his identity, so he did
not get away completely with threatening Mrs Pat in her own home.

He did get away with attempting to plant a bug on my computer. Although
Norfolk Police agreed that an ofence not covered by Crown Immunity did seem
to have been committed on examining the computer, they somehow failed to
follow through and never returned

You can see why a lot of people want me silenced, can't you?

This report, is of course from America, where they know how to deal with
veterinary crooks!

I could not even imagine one thinking about intimidating a witness to
Congress, let alone getting away with it.

http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.support.viewStory.cls?cid=71713&sid...

Meat inspectors suspended after recall

Pat's Note: This is no minor matter that can be spun away.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.mrsa01mar01,0,7895358.story

gives a typical US reaction on MRSA.

Britain has refused to test her pigs. She will be forced to test her pigs,
of course.

Britain's Government vets and their allies have led their country to a
national humiliation.

Hang your heads in shame for protecting such scoundrels.

The fact that even the US pig industry won't have anything to do with
British veterinary science helps gives the game away. That took me by
surprise. They obviously don't even think them capable of mounting any
credible defence to the Kennedy onslaught at Congress.

On refelection, they are right: the RCVS are beyond the international pale
and could wreck anything by waffle. They don't even discipline vets, caught
red-handed faking export health certificates, properly.

British Veterinarian's international credibility is zero. Would you trust
any vet from a country with an animal health record like ours?