As we commented before <http://members.tripod.com/~ngin/JM087.htm> on the issue of the UK's dumping of 'BSE' cattle feed on the Third World:
Having betrayed its own citizens over BSE, the UK Government then betrayed the Third World.
When a deregulated, freebooting industrialised country is finally forced to protect its citizens, it seems it seeks recompense for its agribiz by exporting harm.
Quote from item 1:
‘A senior veterinary officer thought that there was nothing “morally indefensible” in exporting what was effectively poison.’
As regards the new betrayal over GM crops - BSE mark II, the parallel is clear. ... see also: New Scientist: Europe admits its mad http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns227027
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extract from: Approaching pandemic is Britain's shame
By Dr. Lynette Dumble
(http://www.smh.com.au/news/0101/17/features/features4.html)
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, January 17, 2001
MAFF sabotaged a 1990 Brussels ruling designed to prevent the spread of BSE outside Britain when it issued civil servants with secret orders to skip the computer vetting of calves designed to exclude BSE-infected animals.
The globalisation story gets worse. For eight years, debt-burdened Third World countries were lured to buy attractively low-priced BSE-suspect meat and the same animal protein-enriched pellets believed responsible for Britain's BSE problems.
Ultimately, the dumping of BSE-implicated produce, considered unfit for sale in Britain, will be recorded as another shameful chapter of British imperialism. The French Minister for Agriculture, Jean Glavany, sees it exactly in those terms, and recently commented that "morally, they should be judged for that one day. They even allowed themselves the luxury of banning the use of such feed [in Britain] while allowing it to be exported."
Already there are reports of nvCJD-like illnesses in South Africa, Pakistan, and India. The United Arab Emirates has banned the importation of beef from Pakistan because of the BSE threat. One thing is certain, as the World Health Organisation and Professor Manuelidis have recently underlined, the social and environmental costs of a BSE-contaminated food chain in developing regions will far outweigh the multibillion-dollar estimates of Europe's present BSE-related crises.