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Originally posted by yorkshirelad
Originally posted by MeesterB
Realistically, with the potential of this virus it only makes sense to start culling. The shepherds are going to get the short end of the stick when it's all said and done. Maybe the gubment might give them some money, or maybe they are broke.
And how on earth will culling cure the problem? The virus is carried by midges which bite their host. With warm damp weather the midges spread like crazy. We are currently having nice warm damp winter......just wait till things start to warm up in the spring.
Originally posted by EvilBat
"It puts its opinion in the post , it does this when its told"
Originally posted by Jerisa
www.goshen.edu...
Humans, pigs, sheep all have similar biological make up....hmmmm....
Originally posted by NZkraw
This has me thinking.
They're engineering Beef made out of stem-cell to replace real Beef, and soon possibly with Lamb and other meat product.
What if this is to try get people to purchase the stem-cell meat?
Also, what if its just a ploy for something else.
Human experimentation with the world's population?
www.hlntv.com...
www.rawstory.com...
It is quiet disturbing really.
Originally posted by GilesCampbell
Schmallenberg virus is the informal name given to an orthobunyavirus related to Shamonda virus, which has not been given a formal name as of January 2012
Originally posted by GilesCampbell
A risk assessment in December 2011 did not consider it likely to be a threat to human health[4], as other comparable viruses are not zoonotic[
Originally posted by L00kingGlass
I honestly can't think of anything more grotesque than people pigging out on stem cell burgers. What is the point of that? Kill babies instead of animals? It's almost as if they're trying to do anything they can to be immoral and disgusting, even if it doesn't make sense to do so. Seems like an excuse to commit infanticide and abortion if you ask me.
The lab-grown meat created so far has been grown from stem cells taken from foetal calf serum. This is usually a by-product of slaughter, although stem cells could be harvested in smaller volumes without killing animals.
Originally posted by TiM3LoRd
I really hate and I can't emphasise how much I hate quoting religious texts. But isn't it predicted in revelation that when there are no more new souls in heaven that will be the last sigh before the end? If mammals if all kind can't have kids well........
Originally posted by SoulVisions
No one's asked just how this was spread over the span of an ocean. I can't imagine livestock husbandry is such a booming business that we bought animals from the very specific groups and/or areas of infection, only to have our own livestock infected.
With all the trouble created from the H1N1 situation last time around when that one pharmaceutical corporation was found to have shipped it to Europe (after the patents were made for treatments, of course), I'm a little surprised to hear about another cross-specie disease so soon again.
I'm not a pharmacologist or chemist but I know enough to understand the likelihood of such a thing coming about by nature would be something truly incredible.