Re: Britain - No Chief vet, not even an acting Chief Vet

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:58:04 +0100, "Pat Gardiner"
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On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:51:44 +0100, "Pat Gardiner"
<patgardiner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Despite being ravaged by just about every animal disease known to man in
the
last decade and always being on the verge of having to tackle both Blue
Tongue and Avian Flu, the British government is still sitting on its
hands.

I'm told that they have run the bent vets playschool, formerly known as
the
State Veterinary Service, and then rather misleadingly renamed "Animal
Health", down from over 600 vets to something like 120 battered
individuals.
Someone will correct me if I have been misinformed, no doubt.

I suppose the strategy has worked and the real crooks have left for Spain
or
Scotland or somewhere clutching their payoffs to add to their payoffs.

We are probably just left with the incompetents. The former Chief Vet no
doubt embarrassed by the Pirbright fiasco left unexpectedly and her acting
successor no doubt harassed by the Bluetongue muddle, has refused to take
the job, if indeed it was offered, and has retired.

The story is told that the two people offered the job (informally
naturally)
have turned it down, no doubt knowing that the refusal of the Food
Standards
Agency cover-up squad's refusal to release the figures for Campylobacter
in
chickens until 2010 hardly inspired confidence and has sent the
supermarkets
running to their lawyers to check if they can legitimately continue to
sell
British chicken given that refusal and the EU's increasing interest in the
subject.

Perhaps the Food Standards Agency want to follow up their brilliant
advertising success in getting us to eat less....and put less salt on it,
by
persuading us chicken is bad for us too. They are going the right way to
wreck the emerging genuine free range farmers, probably deliberately at
the
instigation of their major stakeholders.

That will work too until somebody wises up, not least our much loved
supermarkets, who don't exactly look caring and meticulous in allowing the
FSA to get away with covering up the size of their problems with
contaminated chicken.

The EU, like the writer, have been showing interest in why Britain's pigs
and pork have this remarkable capacity to avoid MRSA given that both the
new
and old world are admitting contamination both of the animals and their
meat.

Perhaps our veterinary geniuses have discovered a secret of keeping
British
pigs pure and the meat untainted, and that their refusal to test either is
simply a reflection of their reliability, confidence and brilliance?

If they have they are presumably keeping it secret to patent the process
and
make a fortune for the taxpayer, in compensation for costing us billions
when they screwed up Foot and Mouth. It would be nice to think so,
wouldn't
it?

So we await a new leader for Britain's major remaining employer of bent
government vets. They are hardly going to get a good one are they?

It is a pity we didn't pay for the Krays to go through veterinary college.
They would have been the men for the job.

They are going to need a toughie. It looks as if the past crimes of
Britain's bent vets are being visited on the vulnerable and weak and
Britain's 1.4 million NHS workers are getting the blame and inconvenience.

Britain won't do anything but slowly starve their veterinary civil service
out or pay them out with Danegeld to go - anything to get rid of them
without scandal.

It nearly worked, but it was just that little bit too slow.

My money is on outraged foreigners with a big bill, and a taste for Court
actions and red top tabloids, protecting Britain's old people and children
from corrupt veterinary scientists in government employ.

The supermarkets have not yet seen the mileage or necessity in testing
chicken and pork themselves, publishing and showing the Food Standards
Agency, in its present form, up for the unecessary pests and leaches they
really are.

Goodness knows where the poor bewildered small farmers will be in all
this:
the big ones, Plcs and the like will simply pocket their petty cash tins,
call in the receivers and melt away - as anonymous as ever.

You've scared all the vets off Pat :))

I was thinking of applying but the prospects are no good.

Looks like they only want a Patsy anyway ;-)
.

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