Foot and mouth disease...coming..here!? WTF??!

[undergroundpanther]

I Can't think of a more stupid risk the bush administration could take while the US is in a deep recession... than to bring foot and mouth disease to the US mainland risking livestock this way,and trade and our survival than bringing foot and mouth disease here during a deep recession with,a mortgage meltdown, energy costs up,and gas costing so much and food prices rising..already.Seems Bush may WANT a "crimson sky" scenario to happen. The decision to take foot and mouth research off plum island defies sanity and logic.It again proves the people running this government are indeed incompetant, greedy and ethically bankrupt.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's research into highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease likely will move from a remote island to the U.S. mainland near livestock herds, raising concerns about the risks of a catastrophic outbreak.

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/news-52/1207940968104930.xml&storylist=newsmichigan


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The only U.S. facility allowed to research the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease experienced several accidents with the feared virus, the Bush administration acknowledged Friday.

A 1978 release of the virus into cattle holding pens on Plum Island, N.Y., triggered new safety procedures. While that incident was previously known, the Homeland Security Department told a House committee there were other accidents inside the government's laboratory.

http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/A/ANIMAL_DISEASE?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-04-11-19-12-14

[merwin]

1. This admin has already got foot in mouth covered, why not add foot and mouth?

[murielm99]

2. Oh no.

Mad cow disease, and now this.

Someone here posted about what it might take to cause food riots here. This could do it.

I am afraid you could be correct. They want an economic meltdown.

We don't raise cattle any more, just small grains. Commodity prices are very good right now for farmers. He wants to destroy the farm economy, one of the few things that seems to be working for the moment.

[undergroundpanther]

3. I think Busco wants an economic meltdown for

3 potential reasons
1 cannon fodder for his sick wars.

2 have people in debt unable to pay for food,bingo,free labor.AkA debt slavery.Back to fuedalism.Corporate piggies pay off china this way, the rich won't pay or suffer, they will get the debt they rung up paid by breaking our backs.Ever wonder why Haliburton has been building all those new prisons?


3 to begin to systematically kill people off, without it looking like that was the intent...according to some scientists a 90% kill off of humanity will most likely be what it takes to save this planet from immanent ruin.The rich are not going to give up anything in thier'financial dreams'and fantasies of domination, they won't be in the kill off list,but we will be.
http://dieoff.org/page120.htm
http://illuminationinc.blogspot.com/2007/07/i-well-realize-that-this-will-come.html

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. To protect from many diseases

you could possibly make your own colloidal silver, with distilled water, a little battery operated machine, and two rods of pure silver. Silver oxide is known to kill germs -- they sell bandages with it.

[fed-up]

5. they don't really give a damn about US...

from the story for those that don't have time to follow the link:

A simulated outbreak of the disease in 2002 - part of an earlier U.S. government exercise called "Crimson Sky" - ended with fictional riots in the streets after the simulation's National Guardsmen were ordered to kill tens of millions of farm animals, so many that troops ran out of bullets. In the exercise, the government said it would have been forced to dig a ditch in Kansas 25 miles long to bury carcasses. In the simulation, protests broke out in some cities amid food shortages.

"It was a mess," said Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., who portrayed the president in that 2002 exercise. Now, like other lawmakers from the states under consideration, Roberts supports moving the government's new lab to his state. Manhattan, Kan., is one of five mainland locations under consideration. "It will mean jobs" and spur research and development, he says.
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Other possible locations for the new National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility are Athens, Ga.; Butner, N.C.; San Antonio; and Flora, Miss. The new site could be selected later this year, and the lab would open by 2014. The number of livestock in the counties and surrounding areas of the finalists range from 542,507 in Kansas to 132,900 in Georgia, according to the Homeland Security Department's internal study.
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An epidemic in 2001 devastated Britain's livestock industry, as the government slaughtered 6 million sheep, cows and pigs. Last year, in a less serious outbreak, Britain's health and safety agency concluded the virus probably escaped from a site shared by a government research center and a vaccine maker. Other outbreaks have occurred in Taiwan in 1997 and China last year and in 2006.
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The new facility will add research on diseases that can be transferred from animals to humans. The Plum Island facility is not secure enough to handle that higher-level research.

[Nihil]

6. Not a problem

They've covered up having BSE in the US herd so successfully,
why not allow F&M too? It will reduce the costs on those bigass
feedlot organisations and reduced costs means bigger profits for
the lawmakers!

[Snarkturian Clone]

7. Ah, crap... didn't John Titor predict this?

I hate when that guy's right about something.

[Javaman]

8. Moron* has had this problem for years. foot IN mouth disease. nt