Mad pig disease

It has been discovered that the British Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (MAFF) ignored warnings three years ago that the practice of feeding pigs with swill containing pork and pulverised pig bones could lead to a fatal brain disease, similar to BSE in cattle (Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis, or Mad Cow Disease). Independent scientists claim that “a major epidemic, similar to BSE” is waiting to be discovered. Ian Campbell, of the National Pig Farmers Association, claims that pig farmers in the UK were never warned by the MAFF that there were potential dangers involved in the feeding of pigs with swill. Swill is composed of left-overs from restaurants and canteens, often containing rotting meat and certainly containing pork and pulverised pig bones. It will be remembered that BSE was propagated by feeding cows (herbivores) with pulverised bones and brains of the same species. Turning herbivores into cannibals would seem suspect from the outset. Such practices are the result of greed. 100,000 pigs are fed on swill in the United Kingdom every year, a practice as unnatural as feeding cows and sheep with protein feed containing pulverised brains. It is precisely these unnatural farming practices which quite obviously are going to lead to more and more problems in the future. “Intensive farming” is the name given to manic practices of reducing living space for animals, force-feeding them on substances which will fatten them to maturity in ever-decreasing time periods, pumping them full of steroids and growth hormones. So much so that it has recently been reported (by Pravda.Ru) that if athletes eat a pork steak from the wrong animal at the wrong time, they could prove positive for Nandrolone. Intensive farming is against the laws of nature and as such, is a provocation of the most basic laws of chemistry, physics and biology. Mother Earth is implacable and makes no exception. Any attempt to interfere with these laws brings a replays swift as it is deadly. Farming based on local production, feeding and supply is the most natural, and therefore the safest, practice, one which has been tested by thousands of years of history, since pre-classical times. It works.

JOHN ASHTEAD PRAVDA.RU LONDON