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hey mary ann i think the cullings are usually explained as being necessary because it is impossible to tell which animals are infected because of incubation periods. its been the same story with mad cow, hoof and mouth, sars, etc. scrapie sounds a lot more contagious than mad cow. is it possible to feed your sheep a vegetarian diet? a On 7/23/06, Mary Ann Ryan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Scott, as you know, many neurological diseases resemble one another. Kuru > is very far removed from PD but practically the same as Mad Cow and > Cruezfeld/Jacob disease. > > Because we have sheep, I am very concerned about prion diseases, one of > which is Scrapie that afflicts sheep. Since Scrapie *might* be > related Mad > Cow disease (due to poor rendering of sheep carcasses in British feed > plants), the United States has set into motion a program to eliminate > those > sheep genetics that cause sheep to be susceptible to the disease. The > program is essentially a genocide - leaving many shepherds scratching > their > heads as to why their non-infected sheep have been destroyed. I might > add > that Scrapie is very rare. > ---------- > God bless > Mary Ann (CG Jamie 66/26 with PD) Incidentally, Jamie developed PD > *before* > we ever had sheep. > www.bentwillowfarm.org > > > When I first > > saw a film of kuru victims, I thought, "That looks amazingly like PD!" > > Still, > > the treatments are quite different. Nothing surprises me anymore, > though. > > Scott > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto: > [log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn