|
Search Google for Elk Velvet and Wasting Disease
Search Google News for Wasting Disease
Elk farmers hope wasting disease wiped out
- CBC - Dec 29, 2001
Sask. farm hit by second
wasting disease slaughter
- CBC - April 7, 2001
More animals have been ordered
destroyed as a precaution on a farm where an
outbreak of chronic wasting disease is
believed to have started in Saskatchewan.
Officials kill 1,700 mad elk
- Globe and Mail Dec. 18, 2000
Domesticated animals slaughtered in effort to stop spread of chronic wasting disease
ALANNA MITCHELL
EARTH SCIENCES REPORTER; With research by Ken Rubin; Sources: WHO / Cervid Council of Canada
A federal agency has had slaughtered 1,700 domesticated elk in a bid to stop the spread
of the elk version of mad-cow disease at six Saskatchewan farms. Every animal on the
infected farms, plus those sold from them as long as three years ago, is to be killed.
The elk are bred for human consumption of their meat and immature antlers. The slaughter
is by far the largest of its kind. The government will not name the farms.
Ed: So, why did the government of Saskatchewan not tell the public about this? What are
they trying to cover up. A few months after an international conference on the elk velvet
industry was held in Canada, still no warnings. Does the government of Canada not value the
lives of Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, or our own people?
This is one of the reasons that we can't trust the government to regulate any aspect of
the natural food industry. I say, I say, let the lawyers in on this one folks. Marketers of
elk velvet antlers, including the universities, the Ministers of Agriculure and Health ought
to volunteer their own families to ingest some elk velvet antler from any of these animals who
were destroyed.
Elk velvet antler prices have been dropping drastically over the last few years. I wonder what
this will do to the price now.
|
