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Re: Mad Cow disease, BSE; Justice is served.
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Subject: Re: Mad Cow disease, BSE; Justice is served.
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From: Steve Gontarek <gontarek@hannover.geco-prakla.slb.com>
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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 07:43:59 +0200
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Article: 12008 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Oz wrote:
> >>No one seems to have talked about the use of organophoshates. They are
> >>applied to cow's backs (down their spines) to remove Wabble files.
>
> I posted this earlier:
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> >
> >Note for those who don't know what warbles are:
> >
> >Warbles are a particularly nasty parasite of cattle similar to american
> >screw-fly. They lay their eggs on the legs of cattle and the grubs eat
> >their way into the legs, munch their way all the way up inside the body
> >and eventually pupate just under the skin over the backbone. The maggots
> >by then are (from memory) about 1 1/2" long (35mm) and very fat. These
> >drop out, pupate on the ground and hatch into a large fly that only has
> >a range of half a mile or so. They were effectively eradicated by a
> >pour-on OP, undoubtedly to the considerable relief of the cattle
> >population.
Ain't it wonderful what we can catch & die from these days: there's
also a similiar fly in North Africa which ain't particular about laying
eggs in the wound of any creature. Man & Nature are doing their best to
wipe us all out (if media reports are anything to go by..) - care for a
spot of Aids, followed by a slap up serving of CJD and a side salad of
Ebola. I think we should all panic now, like all good newspaper & news
watchers.
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