June 23 2002 ~ Krebs protests that BSE in sheep would have
"appalling health implications"
In the Telegraph today Sir John Krebs reacts angrily to Christopher
Booker's debunking of the FSA's casual
decision-making process in his June
16th Notebook Krebs is claiming "it is difficult to understand why those
in the industry claim to have no knowledge of the issue" - but it is not so
difficult to understand why people who are not told something have no
knowledge of it. The FSA seem
determined to spread fear and consternation in the public about the possiblity
of BSE in lamb meat - but since no link has ever been proved between eating
BSE infected meat and vCJD - and since there is no evidence - in spite of
thousands and thousands of poundsworth of research in trying to obtain such
evidence -that BSE can occur in sheep - we do
rather wonder what the FSA is up to and
why Sir John feels entitled to exhibit such righteous indignation. (See
Kreb's letter) According to the Sunday Herald article by Lachlan
McKinnon and Stephen Naysmith under the headline "Blunkett's Big Brother is
already watching you"... 'There are people in the Food Standards Agency
now who apply for, in what they think are appropriate circumstances, data
about people's communications and they get it. They have no guidance,' ..".the
Government has set aside £20m over three years to help internet and telephone
service providers meet the cost of maintaining an 'interception capability'. "
Does anyone share our extreme disquiet about this?
Fields of Fire witness accounts of 2001