Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: The World

  • Need for vigilance although foot and mouth disease outbreak waning

    <br /><a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=60BA9C4C-C56D-06B3-3E5683074AD583F0">Brownfield Network: Need for vigilance although foot and mouth disease outbreak waning</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A leading microbiologist in Britain says the Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak might be under control by the end of this week if there are no more cases confirmed, according to Dow Jones. Professor Hugh Pennington tells British newspapers that…

  • Opposition

    It appears that their is some opposition developing to the latest Mandatory <acronym title="Country of Origin Labeling">COOL</acronym> passed by the Congress. It seems that <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=150476">Canadians</a> are upset that cattle born and raised in Canada but slaughtered in the US aren't considered US Beef.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>The only way to avoid the discrimination against Canadian animals…

  • Wrong

    I've been following the foot and mouth disease outbreak in Britain with interest, does this surprise you, but something is a little wrong <a href="http://www.afrol.com/articles/26353">here</a> and <a href="http://english.sabah.com.tr/4AAD700B478D4C33B10AAFEEE0DF7D7F.html">here</a> with the reporting on this issue. Both of these stories are saying that it is <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> affecting the British herds, not foot and mouth…

  • More Information

    More information on Britain's foot and mouth disease problem. The outbreak was likely from a <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_FOOT_AND_MOUTH?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">government sponsored lab</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Hopes rose Sunday that a potentially disastrous foot-and-mouth outbreak in Britain could be contained, as scientists grew increasingly suspicious that the disease came from a high-security laboratory near the infected farm.<br />n<br />nThe agriculture department…

  • Britan’s Outbreak

    <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_FOOT_AND_MOUTH?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Foot-and-mouth disease detected in UK</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Scientists worked Saturday to trace the source of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak on an English farm, a development that prompted the European Union to ban livestock imports from Britain, an official said.</blockquote><br />n<br />nIn 2001, foot and mouth disease devastated Britain's meat industries and I'm sure everyone…

  • Kill The Export Market

    I see the Big Meat Packing Plants are trying to get what little beef we export to <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/vetlife_content.asp?ContentID=138506">South Korea shut off</a>. Why don't they pay attention to these things? The packers know South Korea is very touchy about importing US beef so would it be so hard to be a little more careful and…

  • Bad News

    I read a couple of stories recently that sound a little bad for our fair haired Governor, Brian Schweitzer.<br />n<br />nFirst off, regional veterinary experts are <a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070609/BUSINESS/706090325/1046/rss03">not very keen</a> on his "buffer plan" around Yellowstone National Park for Brucellosis. <br />n<br />n<strong>The veterinary officials said the buffer plan, or regionalization, would be expensive and…

  • Could You Spare A Coin

    Now here is a coin I would like to have. A <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKN0328796820070503">220.5 pound gold coin worth one million dollars</a>. Can you imagine that. I have always had a fascination with gold coins. I own a few, but not many, since I don't have the spare cash to really own the numbers I would like.…

  • Amazing

    I've been doing this job for longer than I ever expected to. Hell, I never expected to be doing it at all for that matter. Even though I have been doing it for a long time I still catch myself staring at things in wonder at how beautiful the world can be.<br />n<br />nI don't…

  • Privileges

    <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6472422,00.html">Some people shouldn't have the privilege of breeding</a>. There kind of "love" disgusts me.<br />n<br />n<strong>The government gives a license to a person to drive or even to fish, but they'll let any worthless asshole have children. Unknown</strong>