Sweden gives up the fight against PMWS.
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:22:37 +0100
Pat's Note: These mechanical translators are getting better. I will
have to get one that translates my English into something readable
You can understand this.
The fascinating fact is that the Swedes had it as a notifiable
disease. Britain despite getting it much earlier than Sweden never
made it notifiable, ...
|
The lost archives of uk.business.agriculture
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:24:45 +0100
You lot will have to concentrate, I think you have really upset Defra
now. It is probably all this talk of weather and sloes and things.
You are supposed to be going over all silly about how marvelous
British vets are, in comparison to the filthy foreign ones who send us
contaminated corned beef tins stuffed wit ...
|
Liseteria - Animal Disease and DNA. (long)
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:35:58 +0100
Pat's Note: A piece of top class reporting from the Hamilton
Spectator.
Were we as lucky in Britain!
These guys don't rely on their Ministry releases.
The point about tracing should not be missed in Britain
DNA does not just catch criminals years after the event, it also
traces anyone that lies about t ...
|
Organic group disputes figures on antibiotic use
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:20:09 +0100
Pat's Note: The Soil Association are right.
More and more antibiotics are used on fewer pigs in Britain.
Defra obviously can't dispute it.
If they try to explain why, they are going to have to disclose that
they have been used to keep sick pigs alive long enough to get them
into the food chain.
If the ...
|
US Food inspectors blow the whistle on Canada
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:14:05 +0100
Pat's Note: Not a happy picture.
The interesting this that the detail of the US inspections of Canadian
plants were published in the US but not in Canada.
Canada shares a culture of secrecy with Britain.
"Canada did not like their tone"
They will like it a lot less once the class actions get under way.
...
|
Stop the bugs. PMWS and C.Diff
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:54:32 +0100
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/sun_says/article1626494.ece
Friday, August 29, 2008
Stop the bugs
THE Madrid plane crash left 154 people dead and horrified the world.
Imagine the reaction if that was happening EVERY WEEK here . . .
Planes would be grounded. Airports closed. Royal Commissio ...
|
Canada yet another epidemic
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:52:48 +0100
Pat's Note: Now salmonella.
So just to tally up - they have PMWS and MRSA st398 in their pigs,
serious outbreaks of MRSA, C.Diff and Listeria in the hspitals and
community and a small outbreak of Legionnaires in Hamilton.
All in much the same area as the SARS outbreak a few years ago.
Now, I don't believe ...
|
Bluetongue - Live imports yet again
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:57:58 +0100
Pat's Note: Had Maff told the truth about the origins of CSF and FMD,
this could never have happened.
Live imports would have been seen as the real risk to Britain.
http://www.farmersguardian.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=20994
Imported cows bring fresh bluetongue to the UK
News | 29 August, 2008
...
|
MRSA Action UK: High numbers of C.Diff and MRSA deaths will continue
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:53:14 +0100
Pat's Note: That's my view too. These epidemics are not getting any
better.
There is no doubt that the pressure to under report has increased.
The government are now too terrified to release the results of
testing the pigs, if indeed this has been done at all for C.Diff.
It is not a decision that I would ...
|
Re: Sloes
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:14:31 +0100
Tim Lamb <tim@marfordfarm.demon.co.uk> writes
>Could this be the response to your rainfall or does minding crops from a
>deckchair improve yield?
I think the rainfall. Generally quite even and whilst inadequate, more
than inadequate.
--
Oz ...
|
