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6 THE RURAL VOICE
Robert Mercer
Mark Purdeg, a `rogue' scholar talks on BSE
Robert
Mercer was
editor of the
Broadwater
Market Letter
and
commentator
for 25 years.
1 went to a meeting at the end of
May, where we were told to be
prepared to think "outside -the -box"
when listening to a presentation by
UK researcher and dairy farmer Mark
Purdey on the causes of BSE/CJD.
Mark Purdey certainly told it as he
saw it, and that is not the way the
established government and research
universities interpret the causal
factors to the outbreak of BSE. For
one, he does not believe that feed
containing meats and bone meal is
connected to the outbreak of BSE.
There was just too much incriminated
feed exported from the UK in the last
40 years to countries that are still
BSE -free, he says.
Mark Purdey comes from an
organic dairy farm background in the
U.K. and had the misfortune to bring
into his grass-fed organic herd, cattle
from elsewhere, four of which
developed BSE.
Mark Purdey does not think that
the BSE group of diseases are of an
infectious kind. He believes the
degeneration of the brain is caused by
a multi -layered toxic soup of
environmental factors which includes
the presence of low -frequency shock
waves.
Mark Purdey has concentrated his
research efforts on examining the
analysis of isolated clusters of the
disease breakout for BSE/CWD/CJD
and vCJD. He has come up with
credible theories. Much of the
information given at that meeting
appeared to me to be more
circumstantial rather than empirical.
Mark is saying, in contrast to the
current assumed position, that the
malformed "prions" in the brain
tissue do not serve as a form of
infection in the brain of BSE cattle.
On the contrary he believes the
malformed prions are only a
tombstone effect or legacy of the
disease process, not the causal agent
to initiate the disease. For the science
to back up this theory see Mark's
website.
Because the TSE diseases are
found often in clusters around the
world, Mark has made it part of his
theory that the environmental factors
in those areas have a role to play in
this brain disease. When visiting
these areas he has tested the soils and
feed sources for metal values and
radioactive/magnetic properties.
He says that his work has
identified a package of environmental
factors that underpins the pathogens
of TSE. These include manganese
and silver at high levels, and copper
deficiency. Where he finds more
virulent radioactive metals such as
Strontium 90 and Barium in the
ecosystem, the disease develops
earlier and more aggressively.
He also noted that in four cases of
vCJD where human patients had died,
they were life-long vegetarians.
He felt that governments and their
staff were so imbedded with the
factors and responses to the new
infectious diseases such as SARS and
Avian Flu, that it was nearly
impossible for them to deviate from
established protocol for political
reasons rather than scientific
evidence.
His approach to BSE was
different. He has doggedly
followed his beliefs, he has been
nipping at the backsides of
established bureaucracy and business
interests. He is exposing a painful
festering sore of new thought that is
difficult to swallow as it may contain
more truth than officials are willing
to admit.
Farmers interested in taking time
to look "outside the box" on this
issue should look into that gray box
on the office desk, and punch in
www.markpurdey.com to view a
great website for further scientific
and practical discussions on
BSE/vCJ11.0