Re: PMWS - Canada - Cash Aid



Pat Gardiner <patgardiner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

British farmers got nothing because the SVS decided not to apply to the EU
to make PMWS a notifiable disease. They hid the 1999 East Angian epidemic
up instead and stuffed the pigs full of antibiotics to get them into the
food chain.

Do you have even a shred of evidence for this claim?
.



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