weitere Zitate zur Maul- und Klauenseuche

Die britischen Zeitungen sind voll von interessanten Informationen über die Verbreitung der Maul- und Klauenseuche durch ein Labor.

Hier sind weitere Zitate in englischer Sprache.  Wenn es meine Zeit erlauben sollte, werde ich die Übersetzung noch hinzufügen.  Bis dahin muß ich die Leser, die nicht die englische Sprache beherrschen, auf die Meldung, die auf einem Observer / Guardian Artikel, beruht verweisen.

"Peter Melchett, policy director of the Soil Association, said: 'If the animals have got the disease they should be killed, but the Government should already be vaccinating around the farm to control the spread.'" (Damit würde dann die Pharmaindustrie von der von ihr verursachten Infektion profitieren!)

"Peter Kendall, the president of the National Farmers' Union (NFU), said the farming industry would not oppose the use of vaccination of livestock if that was the scientific advice."  (Auch er ist nicht heller, aber er spricht ja auch von der "Agrar-Industrie")

The Independent

"A private pharmaceuticals company, Merial Animal Health, which has been developing a foot and mouth vaccine, shares the Pirbright site with the government-funded Institute for Animal Health (IAH), which holds 5,000 strains of the virus."

"The IAH today said there had been no breaches of its strict biosecurity procedures, raising suspicions the leak came from Merial's laboratory." (Typisch, auch in Deutschland würde jede Behörde erst einmal alle Schuld von sich weisen.)

"'In addition to general checks on bio-security, operation of equipment, procedures and physical barriers, etc, which have shown no breaches of our procedures, we have been able to check our records specifically for use of this strain,' he said.

'Our results have shown limited use within the lab within the past four weeks.'" (Zitat von Institute of Animal Health director Martin Shirley, Chef des mit staatlichen Geldern betriebenen Institute of Animal Health Martin Shirley, das Pirbright gemeinsam mit Merial Animal Health nutzt, schiebt es auf die privatwirtschaftlichen Kollegen.  Aber zugleich gibt er ja zu, daß mit diesen Viren in den letzten vier Wochen gearbeitet wurde, warum ist er sich dann nach so kurzer Zeit für Untersuchungen so sicher???)

"Officials have not ruled out the possibility that such a release of the virus was deliberate. Both centres, however, pride themselves on their tight security record."

"Last night, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) confirmed that the strain found on the infected farm was not one that would normally infect animals. A spokesman said the strain was similar to a virus known as 01 BFS67, which was isolated in the 1967 foot and mouth outbreak."

"The department said the strain was present at the institute and had been used in a vaccines batch made last month by Merial. The company, which is jointly owned by drugs giants Merck and Sanofi-Aventis, had agreed to halt production on a 'precautionary basis', Defra said."

"More than 60 cattle belonging to Roger Pride, a farmer and butcher, were slaughtered and taken away for incineration. The animals were being fattened for organic beef."

"More than 5,000 strains of infectious foot and mouth are held in a reference 'library' by the Institute of Animal Health at Pirbright and samples from all over the globe are sent there for analysis. It provides confirmation of outbreaks for the United Nations."  (welch eine Zeitbombe!!!)

The Daily Telegraph

"The government institute has recently suffered funding cuts, condemned by members of the Commons science and technology select committee, which said it was suffering the 'loss of key staff and skills."  (Na, da liegt doch nahe, daß vielleicht jemand zeigen wollen könnte, daß man doch unverzichtbar ist.  Beim Friedrich-Löffler-Institute hat man mit viel Lärm um nichts einen wahren Goldregen verursacht, warum soll das nicht auch in England funktionieren, hat vielleicht einer gedacht, und ein bißchen nachgeholfen.)

Times

"Treat farmers with respect and they will treat their animals with respect, and by extension the planet with respect. Treat them like trash, and trash is what you’ll get on your plate."  (Das ist wohl war!)

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