Bird 'flu - Margaret Becket on R4
Discussion
On today's edition of the World at One on Radio 4, Margaret Becket stated in totally unequivocal terms, that "Nowhere in the European Union has there been any case of bird 'flu in a poultry farm". What did the turkeys in Lyons die from then?
BBC said:
BBC Saturday 25 February France confirms bird flu strain
The authorities are taking steps to prevent the virus spreading
France has confirmed the deadly bird flu virus H5N1 has been found on a turkey farm in the east of the country.
It is the first time a European Union farm has been infected. France has already had cases in two wild ducks.
About 400 of more than 11,000 birds at the farm have died in the past week, and the rest have been culled.
Despite assurances that cooked poultry is safe, sales in France have fallen by 30%, and Japan has announced an import ban with immediate effect.
France, Europe's largest poultry producer, is to start vaccinating millions of birds against bird flu to try to protect its 7bn euros ($8bn) a year poultry industry.
She was only try to calm down the idiots that are cacking themselves and destroying the poultry industry. People are going mad and the animals are suffering with plonkers going on at family or neighbours to cull their chickens and releasing caged house birds or giving them to rescue centers.
Most politicians are second-rate history graduates, so what do they know about science, pathology and epidemiology? They're only worried about what 'message' is given. You can be quite sure they'll get it wrong, or do the right thing too late.
According to them, we should all have been dead from BSE, foot and mouth, swine fever, global warming, terrorist bombs and meteorite strikes by now.
How come we're still alive then?
Edited to add 'SARS' - so many millions dead I forgot it...
>> Edited by simpo two on Monday 27th February 18:32
According to them, we should all have been dead from BSE, foot and mouth, swine fever, global warming, terrorist bombs and meteorite strikes by now.
How come we're still alive then?
Edited to add 'SARS' - so many millions dead I forgot it...
>> Edited by simpo two on Monday 27th February 18:32
Based on horse-face's record with foot-in-mouth, I'd be saying my final good byes if I was a British chicken. Incompetent complacency will be replaced with incompetent action with the sole objective of Being Seen to be Doing Something. "Something" will probably be tasking 45 Commando with the irradication of Bernard Matthews and his evil flock after issuing a tip-off to Tabloid News at 10.
ATG said:
Incompetent complacency will be replaced with incompetent action .
Now that has just about hit the nail on the head. DEFRA (or MAFF as it was then) invited BSE by allowing lax preperation of meat & bone meal. They allowed foot&mouth to spread the length and breadth of the country before any action took place
and i heard a statment a few weeks ago informing us that avian flu could not come to Britain,that we had nothing to be concerned about and they had every thing under control. It was at that point that i knew we were all ***ked 
>> Edited by R TOY on Monday 27th February 20:40
Take a look at the "spread of bird flu" map on the BBC website. When a country gets 1-25 cases, it is highlighted light grey, then gets darker with more cases.
The UK notes the case in London the other week with a single yellow pixel, but the country doesn't change colour to suit like all the others?
Selective mis-information?
Bit dodgy if you ask me. BBC's ethics are seriously quesionable! Public service my bum!
Dave
The UK notes the case in London the other week with a single yellow pixel, but the country doesn't change colour to suit like all the others?
Selective mis-information?
Bit dodgy if you ask me. BBC's ethics are seriously quesionable! Public service my bum!
Dave
wolves_wanderer said:
Ooh no, a disease may be coming which doesn't even affect my species? You'll forgive me if I stay out of my bunker for the time being?
Thats a bit of a daft thing to say.
UK agriculture is getting shafted at every turn by government policy and inaction.
Cattle/BSE, Sheep/Cattle/Foot and Mouth, H5N1/Poultry...
Just the ikkle piggies to screw over now, and there will be nothing domestic worth a crap. The government will over-react the wrong way 6 months too late, with more control and policy that pushes costs even higher, while cheap imported tat carries on coming in un-regulated compared to our high dometic standards!?
Makes you wonder, the governments inability to organise a piss up in a brewery it seems when it comes to disease control, how clever your comments will be when there is a strain that effects "your species" coming to the UK, because I for one will be in my bloody bunker!
Dave
>> Edited by Mr Whippy on Tuesday 28th February 10:50
They were talking of five or more years of endemic disease this morning on R4. All poultry would have to be kept indoors for an indefinite period. The free range and organic poultry farmers would go out of business. How lucky for us that we would be able to buy vaccinated poultry from la belle France, then.
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