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Question 2 - Hi Mark, I'm wondering why all those associated with Weston A Price and that other jerk Pottenger all seem to suffer from vCJD 'brain dead' every article you morons write that bag vegetarianism or veganism have no substance, nothing is documented in any medical journal! 

Anyone who promotes raw milk, raw meat has to be a first class jerk. I suspect you pomm(i)es suffer from Mad Cows. I mean your surrounded by the diseased intensive factory farmed non-human beings. 

Supporters of the Meat and Live Slaughter, Menstrual Effluent Board and the White Stuff.
Get a real life. The animals don't need your excuses GO VEGAN

Answer - Hi Anonymous,

What are you going to achieve by hiding yourself behind a brick wall of anonymous rant; delivering angry outbursts of irrational, generalised assumptions at someone who you do not even know? Get your bloody facts straight mate.

Your wild ironic accusations are totally misappropriated in this instance, I can assure you. Approach Weston A Price et al over your concerns over "raw meat" fetishes - I do not know what you are on about. I just write the occaisional article for their journal.

You do not realise that I have fought for the best interests of animal welfare over the years, to the extent that I have been alienated from the entire conventional farming community here in the UK - I just differ from you in that I feel domestic animals perform a crucial role in maintaining soil fertility; their manure supplying humus for balanced soil microbiology and nutrient status. Without this, wind and rain erosion would deplete top soils sufficiently to famine the world. No amount of theorizing over the adequacy of green manures in maintaining humus will dissuade me from my 30 years of PRACTICAL agricultural experience. If you want scientific references, then I could send you hundreds - or simply look up my academic publication list in the scientific literature. 

Your style of approach can only create great gulfs of conflict in the world. We need  growth and understanding in these disintegrating times, not further angry anonymous souls orbiting around igniting off cluster bombs of  irrational outburst.

I have spent my adult life pitted face to face (NB, not anonymously) against the might of multinational and government dirty tricks in order to expose the eco-toxicology of products that prop up the global economy . It is a lonesome life, believe you me, and I did not see you by my side in Australia two weeks ago when I was single handedly risking my physical well being - yet again - by taking on the mega mining corporation which control Groote island, and  pointing out to their manager how their mining activities have crippled an entire Aboriginal village with a fatal psycho-neurological TSE disorder (scape-goated onto Aboriginal genetics) as well as seeding the mad cow madness (with their manganese dioxide animal mineral product) across the entire world . Your ironic nationalistic comments about vCJD being a pommie problem, when you are obviously too blind to suss out that it originated from your back door.

No I do not need to get any more real than I already am, you anonymous wimp.

Mark Purdey

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Not Sure why you think I sent this anon, my emails supposed to show Paul Stokes maybe I did not sign off.

As for visiting Australia. What a shame that you came 25,000 miles and you never got to meet 'the grass roots ngo groups'- who brought you? Whoever organised your stay could have a least contacted us there are numerous sites internationally we are on active.org.au, geneEthics.network.

As for my "ravings and rantings" I got this feeling looking at you site and you still say domestics animals have a crucial role blah de blah. non-human species are not on this planet for you farmers! After they have served your purpose they are off to the slaughter houses, don't give me that crap that you have a use for their shit! What you going the grow grains for to feed to the animalk whose hard hoofs destroy the top soil.

Oh I forgot you have designed some rubber wellie for the cows and sheep!
Its not the facts you need in fancy words it the hard facts you need even if its a bit stronger than your pommie tea! The animals don't need your excuses Go Vegan!

Answer - wow, your Emails get increasingly aberrant !

What do you mean by;  "Who brought me to Australia? "Some of us on this planet still have enough integrity and inner security left to think and decide for ourselves as "individuals", and therefore do not need to get addicted to the dogmas of the Mundi club, ngo groups, vegan groups or the likes of the Weston A Price Foundation et al .

It was actually an Aboriginal family who saw a documentary about my work on your Four Corners ABC tele slot. They then suggested that I came over to investigate their disease which I did - entirely on my own initiative. This family are not on the internet so they had not been aware of your organisation. Anyway, as I fund myself, I do not have the resources to travel to meet all of these grass roots ngo groups to which you refer.

You then commit that same old "livestock versus vegetable" cliche where you condemn livestock because they allegedly erode the soil via their hooves!  Your statement is totally misguided and devoid of any practical insight into the biomechanics of ecosystems. You are seriously deluding yourself.

Witness; the sudden onset of topsoil erosion once the likes of Delmonte and other corporations started to plough up the light loam African plains where the herds of Massai cattle - along with wild hoofed animals - once roamed. Whilst zero soil erosion occurred when the land was traditionally pastured, twenty years of continuous cash cropping with pineapples, vegetables, sorghum, etc, caused almost total loss of soil humus within that small amount of time - to the extent that the corporations found it no longer able to sustain an economically  viable yield of crop despite their massive chemical fertiliser inputs. Soils without humus will not grow crops, full stop. final.

Another example of the value of cow manure as a soil humus builder involves the switch from the customary returning of cow dung to the land in India to the customary burning of cow dung as fuel. This switch over initiated an unprecedented increase in soil erosion by wind and rain, to the extent that the cause of the problem was picked up on and they duly reverted to their policy of returning dung to the land. I could cite thousands of examples of erosion from around the world, due to cessation of returning dung back to the soil. 

Wind and rain erosion of soils occurs once humus is depleted and the soil micro-life/earthworms, etc have been annihilated - by the likes of chemical soil acaricides such as carbaryl which are employed in mono-cropping systems. Also the machinery tracking and compacting endured in arable/vegetable farming systems causes serious gully erosion of top-soils. I have never seen any erosion resulting from livestock hooves. To the contrary, each hoof-print serves to puddle the rainfall, thereby PREVENTING erosion as opposed to the ever increasing snowball effect due to the amassing of rainfall flowing along the tractor tracks in gully erosion.

I expect that you will now wheel out that age old cliche of perma-culture. Whilst you or I may have the initiative and motivation to perma-culture sufficient food from our back gardens, it is totally unpractical and unworkable to envision this system on a grand global scale. As reality stands, we have the population masses living in large towns who are dependent upon cheap food and materialistic indulgences. There would be a revolution if any government tried to force them to start perma-culturing their own food. It just would not work. Thus, the present consumer society has found its own unhappy medium and lead to the evolution of a farming system that is seriously adrift - mono-cropping arable/ vegetable desert-scapes and grotesque, factory-farmed domestic animal systems from hell. I am trying to evolve a mixed sustainable system of farming which respects ecology, animal and human welfare, as well as serving as an economically VIABLE and PRACTICAL alternative to the current mono systems.   

Whilst I stand with you against the extreme cruelty of intensive factory farming, I do feel that animals have to be involved in a mixed, balanced farming system intended to feed the world - but farmed in a welfare-friendly way!

I hope you will just step outside your dogma for a while to consider this viable option for a future of life on earth, and not a life without any earth.

Best,

Mark Purdey.