From The Sun and altered by me:- )
SHAMBO the poisonous tb reactor bull will live to see another weekend, another weekend where it threatens to contaminate people with bovine tb, as a decision on whether he should be put down has been bottled out of until Monday.
Throughout today the Welsh Arsembly has battled in court with Hindu leaders over the tb reactors fate.
Six-year-old Friesian Shambo - considered sacred in Hindu culture - was handed a death sentence after testing positive for exposure to bovine tuberculosis.
The Skanda Vale temple community in Llanpumsaint, west Wales, where Shambo is kept, launched a legal challenge to save him.
At the Cardiff Civil Justice Centre today, Judge Gary Hickinbottom said he would hand down his judgment on Monday morning next week.
Speaking outside court, Brother Alex, of Skanda Vale, said: “Both sides aired their views very, very thoroughly and it’s a very finely balanced case.”
Now the poisonous tb riddled beast can only wait as leftiey tree hugging loons log on to the 'Sham Cam' - a webcam which tracks his every movement - to see how he is faring.
The community insists Shambo is in rude health and kept in isolation.
In a web statement, the monastery said: “If we were to permit (the Government) to kill Shambo it would be an appalling desecration of life, the sanctity of our temples and Hinduism as a whole.
“We could no more allow the slaughter of Shambo than we could the killing of a human being. Ultimately we would be willing to defend his life with our own.” A statement that I agree with and so let the cull of mad monks or whatever the hell they claim to be start when the judge hands down a cull order on tb reactor Shambo.
The temple has argued that the tuberculosis test was inconclusive, and that, even if Shambo were sick, he could be treated rather than killed. Despite the massive dangers to human health from a bovine tb outbreak from the reactor, not to mention the massive damage to the Welsh economy as whole herds have to be destroyed thanks to the wooley thinking of a cunt like David Milliband who passed the buck onto the Arsembly, and of course the inability of said Arsembly to follow the letter of the law and destroy the poisonous beast.
But Rural Affairs Minister Jane Davidson concluded that in order to protect both human and animal health, the animal should be destroyed. Well said that woman.
From David Miliband we have this piece of fluff: http://www.davidmiliband.defra.gov.uk/blogs/ministerial_blog/archive/2007/05/11/9431.aspx
- Mahatma Gandhi, truly one of the great figures of the 20th century, believed that the protection of cows was one of the true signs of the Hindu faith. It is for that reason that the case of Shambo, reported in many newspapers, raises such a high degree of concern for many British Hindus. Their representatives have written to me about their concern.
- Shambo is part of a herd of cattle cared for by the Skanda Vale Temple in Wales. Shambo has tested positive for bovine TB, which as many people know is a serious contagious disease that can spread to other animals. That is why it is normal practice for cattle in such cases to be humanely slaughtered to stop further spread of the disease.
- Since Shambo is a Welsh cow the matter comes under the jurisdiction of the Welsh Assembly (though EU rules apply to them in the same way as to English authorities). The decision in this case will therefore come before Welsh Ministers when the new Welsh Assembly Government is formed.
From the Defra site, an overview of bovine TB in the UK: During the 1930s, a large proportion of dairy cows were infected with M. bovis. Many were kept near large cities to provide urban dwellers with fresh milk and most were closely confined, in poorly ventilated cowsheds, which are ideal conditions for the disease to spread. Many infected cows developed TB in the udders and shed M. bovis in the milk. Because most milk was drunk raw (untreated), milk-borne human M. bovis infection was a major public health risk and an important source of TB in humans. During this time, over 50,000 new cases of human TB were recorded each year in Great Britain and it was estimated that 2,500 people were dying annually from TB caused by M. bovis.
To try to control the problem, in 1935 the Government introduced a voluntary TB testing scheme for cattle. Any animals that were positive to these tests were slaughtered. To try to stop bTB spreading to other herds, cattle were not allowed to be moved from farms affected with bTB.
This testing and slaughter programme became compulsory in 1950 and by 1980 it had reduced the national incidence of TB in cattle to a very low level. In addition to this, routine pasteurisation (heat treatment) of cows’ milk and inspection of cattle carcases at slaughterhouses were gradually put in place to further protect public health.
After the order on Monday - this is Shambo's future...
Link: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/165056/Bovine_TB_can_spread_in_humans_
- Experts told the Lancet that bovine TB was an under-appreciated cause of disease and death in humans.
- The first case was reported in 2004 and four cases were reported in 2005 and one more case in 2006. They have launched HPA investigation as soon as they were reported the first case in 2004.
- The results of DNA fingerprinting tests showed all six cases were identically linked, most probably by person-to-person spread. In 19th and 20th centuries these Mycobacterium bovis infection in humans were common and more than 2,500
- Lastly check out bovine tb reactor webcam
**Any chance we can also put Miliband to sleep as well? Some old bits on the tb reactor shambo below but first here is the future of Shambo
http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/06/shambo-passing-buck.html
http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/06/shambo-tb-reactor-passing-bullock.html
http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/06/tb-reactor-shambo-to-be-put-down.html
http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/06/princess-tony-leaves-office-pm-brown.html
http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/07/shambo-tb-reactor-yet-another-post.html
**Update - Steak back on the menu: Shambo to walk the green mile.
THE decision to slaughter Shambo the temple bull was “justified”, the Court of Appeal ruled today. The six-year-old bull, revered by Hindu monks at the Skanda Vale Community in Llanpumsaint, west Wales, was given a reprieve last week. But the Welsh Assembly Government, which served the slaughter order in May after Shambo tested positive for exposure to bovine tuberculosis (BTB), decided to appeal. Today judges sitting in London upheld the appeal in a ruling that could be the death sentence for Shambo...
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4 people have spoken:
It's cruel to keep an animal in such an enclosed space as seen on the shamblescam. When veal calves were kept in such small areas there was a public outcry. Now the bullock should be allowed to run free in the fields - not kept in a small enclosed space where his TB germs can multiply. Still it may improve the meat - will be having a shambo staek to celebrate his demise next week.
nice post. gandhi was inspired greatly by the gita. you can read about it at Gandhi on the gita at www.gitananda.org
Milliband, before his recent promotion alongside his brother, chose to emulate pontius pilate and wash his hands of responsibility for dealing with this animal on the grounds that responsibility had been 'devolved' to the windbags in Cardiff Bay
This is a disgrace. The health of the whole nation is a matter for control at national level not for handing over to some windbag under the control and direction of some part-time cottage burner
True enough John, that said had the arsembly done the right thing, shambo would by now be a filling in a meat sandwich.
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