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Hi all,
I will be in Asheville NC in mid April. Are there any on the graze-l
list in that general area who would be available for a meet up.
My experience is as a dairy farmer of 130 cows with a very strong
grazing bias.
Conor O'Brien
----- Original Message -----
From: Ann Tiplady & John Sease
To: graze-l@witt.ac.nz
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 5:37 PM
Subject: Graze-l woefully quiet
I'm sorry that graze-l is so silent. I like listening to the experts.
Cheers, Ann
Vermont, USA
(Who is spending all her time gearing up to tackle local zoning so
that hopefully, maybe, it will work to protect farming for the future.
I keep telling myself that I'm doing this stuff instead of a PhD because
it will be more useful in the long run. It may not be as much fun
though.)
From: graze-l-admin@witt.ac.nz [mailto:graze-l-admin@witt.ac.nz] On
Behalf Of Dave Gneiser
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 9:59 PM
To: graze-l@witt.ac.nz
Subject: Re: Threat to food safety
Just testing since graze-l is quiet and grazersedge appears to have a
computer blockage to new posts lately.
Dave G.
WisCOWsin
Fact, unlike the non-safety threat posed from the downer cows, there
are
real threats in the US food supply that apparently the HSUS is not
concerned
about such as:
OUTBREAK: Leprosy in Arkansas - Brought Here by Whom?
Renee E. Taylor
http://familysecuritymatters.org/challenges.php?id ...
In an emergency room in Arkansas, the patient exhibits dark red
boils, her
skin numb. Another case of leprosy in America. Not far away, a
tuberculosis-infected illegal immigrant coughs while on break at the
local
chicken processing plant - spreading his infectious germs across the
break
room table. His children, also carrying the disease, which had been
all but
eradicated from the United States years ago, join hundreds of
children at
the local public school. Crossing the Mexican border, in a pickup
truck
filled with "migrant workers" coming to "do the jobs Americans don't
do" in
our fields and food processing plants, is the Islamic terrorist who
purposefully infected himself with smallpox in order to spread the
deadly
disease to unsuspecting Americans nationwide.
Fact or fiction? Well over 12 million illegal aliens have invaded
our
country from our southern border, circumventing the strict health
requirements that are enforced for those entering legally -
requirements
that include ensuring the entrants are free from infectious
diseases. Our
own government continues its push to give them legitimacy, in some
cases
welcoming them with open arms under the guise of "they are doing the
work
Americans just don't do." However, we don't know who they are - or
what
horrific contagions they may have brought with them.
In Northwest Arkansas, the state health department has been tracking
nine
cases of Marshall Island citizens infected with leprosy. According
to a
report from KFSM, the CBS affiliate in Fayetteville, Northwest
Arkansas has
a large population of Marshall Island immigrants who have been
brought here
to work in the poultry plants in the area. Although, according to
Dr.
Jennifer Bingham in the KFSM report, leprosy is curable with proper
attention to treatment, they are not able to enlist compliance from
the
patients to complete the process. The report also lists 100 cases of
tuberculosis in the Springdale area.
In subsequent reports, the Arkansas Department of Health has
downplayed the
importance of the outbreak of leprosy in Northwest Arkansas, stating
that 95
percent of the population is genetically resistant to the disease.
Leprosy
is a major concern in the Marshall Islands and with residents from
the
Marshall Islands being exempt from immigration laws - including
medical
requirements - it is no small surprise that Northwest Arkansas, with
a large
concentration of Marshall Island residents working in the poultry
plants, is
tracking nine cases of the disease.
In an effort to calm fears of tuberculosis outbreak, the Ft. Smith,
Arkansas, Times Record states that in 2007, there were 106 cases of
tuberculosis reported statewide, with 21 - nearly a full quarter -
in the
Northwest Arkansas area. Spread through the inhalation of infected
particles
from an infected person who coughs, tuberculosis is easier spread
than
leprosy. Both stories, regardless of the downplaying from government
officials, are reason for concern.
Concerns over leprosy in America are not new, but rarely reported.
On March
15, 2005, Columbia University's Columbia News Service published an
article
by Ben Whitford, titled "Leprosy in America: New Cause for Concern".
While leprosy outbreaks in the United States are rare, approximately
130
cases per year, Whitford's report states that in 2004, 100 cases of
leprosy
were diagnosed in the United States among the immigrant population.
That was
double from the year 2000. Dr. William Levis, head of New York's
Hansen's
Disease Clinic, stated, "It's creeping into the U.S." He is further
quoted
as calling it an "epidemic" that has already reached such
proportions in
Texas, New York and California - all states with high populations of
immigrants.
It has become politically incorrect to discuss the possibility of
illegal
aliens bringing tuberculosis, leprosy and other infectious diseases
across
the border. This tolerance to the lax policies regarding
immigration,
appeasement of La Raza and other special interests and the ease in
which
illegal aliens can blend into American society, leaves us wide open
to
something far more sinister and deadly - bioterrorism.
Like the economic and health issues regarding illegal immigration
that have
plagued our nation, the threat of terrorism from our porous southern
and
northern borders is largely ignored, but a very real possibility.
After September 11, the possibility of smallpox being used in a
bioterror
attack became a concern with the Center for Disease Control. Long
since
eradicated from the U.S., this highly contagious, deadly disease -
or any
other - can walk across the border with Mohammed as easily as
tuberculosis
comes with your local tomato picker.
Tuberculosis, leprosy - an epidemic? The reality of bioterrorism
from our
porous borders? The possibilities could cause panic among the
population.
The news would spread faster than the diseases themselves, therefore
the
news is controlled, with an apparent goal to downplay concerns.
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