First They Came 4The Cows- R The Sheeple Next?-Joe Quinn/Signs of the Times

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First They Came For The Cows - Are The Sheeple Next?

 

 

Joe QuinnSigns of the Times

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:31 EDT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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As the smell of burnt cow meat once again wafts across the southern English countryside, the stench is not only casting a pallor across the faces of Surrey farmers, but also threatening to expose the sordid relationship between the UK government, U.S. big business and the little-known world of "bio-terrorism".

 

 

The first outbreak of a resurgent foot and mouth disease (FMD) occurred last Friday on a farm in Surry England. A second herd of cattle, less than two miles away tested positive for the foot and mouth disease yesterday, frustrating British farmers who were hoping for a quick end to the crisis and eager to avoid a repeat of the massive slaughter and burning of 6 million animals in 2001.

 

 

It has now been established that the outbreak was caused by a strain of the virus which only exists in a government laboratory located three miles away from the first reported case. This particular strain does not occur naturally outside the government-owned "Institute for Animal Health" at Pirbright. The Pirbright facility is shared with a private American pharmaceutical company, Merial Animal Health, which manufactures vaccines for animal diseases such as FMD. The strain has now been conclusively linked to a vaccine that Merial manufactured on 16 July this year.

 

 

The UK government's spin doctors are already on the job, with news reports carrying the government Health and Safety Executive suggestions that contaminated water at the Merial laboratory may have been disposed of improperly with the recent flooding in the UK possibly carrying the disease to surrounding farmland, or perhaps the air-filtration system at the lab was not powerful enough to prevent the virus from escaping. In its initial inquiry, the government's Health and Safety Executive said there was a "strong possibility" that the virus came from the Government-licensed Pirbright complex and that it is likely that workers at the site were to blame for spreading the disease. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

 

(Defra)

 

last night said it would investigate unconfirmed reports that a worker at one of the Pirbright labs had an allotment near the farm where the outbreak was first detected on Friday.

 

 

 

In a statement today, a Merial spokesman denied responsiblity:

"Over the last three and a half days we have conducted intensive internal investigations and, as a result, continue to have complete confidence in our processes and procedures for health, safety and environmental protection, quality control, quality assurance and regulatory compliance.

 

 

The microbiology expert Hugh Pennington opined: "My impression is that they haven't found any technical fault and flooding is a potential, but only negligible. What you are left with is human movement."

 

 

So as usual, "Mr. nobody" was responsible, or some unnamed humans.

What is most interesting about this outbreak of FMD is that it comes hot on the heels of yet another appearance of the terrifying "bird flu", with 2 swans in France, a few ducks in Germany and 51 chickens in India all succumbing to the disease in recent weeks. Call me conspiratorial if you like, but I've been watching the modus operandi of the powers that be for too long now to take anything of this nature at face value, at least not before I subject it to the smell test. So let me share some finer details with you and you can then decide for yourself.

 

 

First, a quick look at Merial:

 

Merial is a world-leading animal health company. It is a joint venture between Merck & Co. and Sanofi-Aventis, founded in 1997. Merial produces pharmaceutical products and vaccines for livestock, pets and wildlife. Merial employs approximately 5,000 people and operates in more than 150 countries worldwide. Its 2005 sales were in excess of $1.9 billion.

 

 

 

Judy C Lewent (Judy Lewent, Executive Vice President of Merial)

 

is responsible for worldwide financial, corporate development and licensing matters, as well as for strategic planning at Merck. Judy is also responsible for the Johnson & Johnson Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals and Merial

 

(Merck and Sanofi-Aventis)

 

joint venture relationships and the Merck ongoing relationships with Astra and DuPont.

 

 

Judy is a member of the Board of Directors of Dell Inc., Motorola, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a trustee of the Rockefeller Family Trust; a life member of the MIT Corporation;

 

and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

 

 

 

Interesting company Ms Lewent keeps. It is also interesting that on July 31st 2007, just a few days before the outbreak of FMD that has been linked to Merial, Ms. Lewent off-loaded 50,000 shares in Merial. Then yesterday, one day before it was revealed that the strain of FMD had come from Merial's lab in Surry, she dumped a further 63,000 shares of common stock. Oh yes, and she is retiring next week. I assume that if Merial ends up on the wrong end of a multi-million dollar farmer's law suit in the coming weeks over the release of FMD in the UK, Merial's shares are going to plummet . So, can we say "insider trading"?

 

 

 

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On the one hand it could be suggested that both Merial and the UK government have much to gain from another FMD epidemic across the UK and that they may well have conspired to deliberately release the disease.

 

Merial would stand to receive large sums of money from the sale of millions of doses of the vaccine for FMD that it makes, and the UK government would be provided with another opportunity to run hundreds more small and medium-sized farms out of business and further centralise one of the most important food-producing industries in the UK.

 

 

Up until now, the vast majority of farmers in the UK were against the vaccination solution to FMD for a variety of reasons including:

 

It is difficult to correctly distinguish between the variations of the disease, (especially with government and big business tinkering incessantly with the strains) for example the strain discovered recently in Surrey is different from the form that swept across Britain six years ago

 

A vaccinated animal cannot be moved for a time because it can still be a carrier of the infection.

 

 

 

Each new generation of animal must be vaccinated

 

Many farmers, struggling to survive because of government agricultural policies, would be unable to afford the relevant vaccine, but most importantly of all, British beef and milk would have to be labeled as "vaccinated" which would make it more difficult to sell, at least abroad.

 

 

With this latest outbreak however, The National Farmers Union, fearful of having to watch another 6 million cattle go up in smoke, are saying that there is perhaps some merit in the vaccination idea, and Merial would of course be very happy about that.

 

 

As for the Gordon Brown government, it seems that they are doing everything in their power to help the virus spread far and wide. The owner of the land where the outbreak was first detected yesterday attacked the government for failing to shut footpaths in affected areas and criticised the decision to transport slaughtered infected cattle 80 miles for incineration as "absolutely stupid" and "madness" because it risked spreading the disease beyond the infected farm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Denny, a veterinary surgeon from Worcester, said the policy of moving the carcasses across country was a "risk too far". "I'm horrified, it is all because the public must not be seen to witness funeral pyres again. Foot and mouth must be treated as a disease and not subjected to political spin."

 

 

Apparently some people are still unaware of the fact that everything the UK government does is "spin", which is just a ubiquitous euphemism for "lies".

 

There also exists the possibility that UK government would be happy to see another FMD epidemic and UK farmers forced to accept the vaccination of all British cattle, because in this way they could 'vaccinate on the fly' those members of the Great British public who eat beef and drink milk -

 

which is most of them. Why not? It's a brave new world folks, and if the American government could use the threat of "swine flu" in 1976, to force vaccinate 47 million Americans resulting in at least 113 deaths, nearly 4,000 cases of paralysis and an epidemic of Guillean Barre -

 

a polio-like disease (the first outbreak occurred at Fort Dix by the way)

 

but no outbreak of "swine flu", and if the government was able toensure that one of the ingredients in diet soft drinks is the same as the main ingredient in rat poison, then why not a little dead mutated FMD vaccine in your McDonald's burger and milkshake, eh? After all, FMD only "very rarely" affects humans, then again, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs the latest outbreak of FMD was a "01 BFS67-like virus", i.e. it was a version of FMD that is not normally found in animals and linked instead to the vaccine that Merial produced by mutating the original 1967 FMD virus, so eh...

 

 

 

Having said all that, it does seem a little unrealistic to think that if Merial were part of some conspiracy to infect British cows with FMD, they would have had the gumption to cover their tracks a little better than choosing their own back yard to release a mutated strain of the virus. So maybe Merial wasn't part of this particular conspiracy, but was instead something of a fall guy, a useful idiot, or rather Merial's shareholders were the useful idiots, while the management like Ms Lewent mentioned above, were smart enough to get a tip of in advance and dump their shares. In this case then, and assuming that someone did deliberately release the mutated FMD strain/vaccine, who dun it?

 

 

 

For the possible answer to that one, we need to look to those stalwart defenders of British society against the Islamic terror hoard from the East - the MOD.

 

 

Back in 2002, one year after the first FMD pandemic, a public inquiry into the outbreak revealed evidence that a phial containing the foot-and-mouth virus went missing from the Porton Down research laboratories near Salisbury.

 

 

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