1. Thousands of tons of the BSE incriminated meat and bone meal (MBM) feed were exported as cattle feed during the 1970s/1980s/1990s to countries that have remained BSE-free to date. - eg, South Africa, Sweden, Eastern Europe, Middle East, India, Third World, etc.
2. Relaxation in the temperature / manufacturing techniques of the MBM rendering process in the UK were blamed for permitting the survival of the scrapie agent in the sheep brain material; thereby enabling the "agent" to jump across into cattle, producing BSE. But none of these alterations were exclusive to the UK rendering plants. For instance, other scrapie endemic countries such as USA and Scandinavea had adopted the same continuous flow system of rendering five years before the UK, yet these countries have remained BSE-free. Furthermore, the pathogenic, 'infectious' capacity of the scrapie agent remains active after heating to temperatures up to 700 degrees – way above the 150 degree temperatures employed in the supposedly 'safe' rendering processes operating in pre BSE days.
3. Several live animal trials in the USA failed to induce BSE in cattle after feeding/injecting them with massive doses of scrapie contaminated brain tissue. Furthermore, no cases of BSE have developed in the feeding studies involving 1000 cows that were experimentally challenged with high doses of MBM feed / innoculant on a Dept of Agriculture farm at High Mowbray in Yorkshire, UK.
4. Forty thousand plus cows that were born after the UK's 1988 ban on MBM incorporation into cattle feed have still developed BSE.
5. Several countries such as Ireland, Portugal and France have witnessed a greater number of BSE cases in cows born after their respective bans on MBM than in cows born before their bans.
6. There have been no cases of BSE in other TSE-susceptible ruminants in the UK, such as goats and sheep, despite the customary inclusion of the same BSE-incriminated MBM protein source in their feeds.
7. Four of the original five kudu antelope that developed BSE at the London zoo had not had any possible access to MBM containing feeds.
8. The UK government's former experimental farm at Liscombe on Exmoor was designed to raise suckler beef cattle on a pure grass/silage system - without resort to feeding any MBM containing concentrated feeds at all . Yet BSE struck down four animals on this holding.
9. It is customary for Icelandic sheep farmers to slaughter and eat their scrapie affected sheep ( brains included ) immediately the first symptoms of this rapid wasting disease are recognised. Yet , no cases of CJD have ever been recorded in Icelandic sheep farmers, and only two cases in the Icelandic population at large.
10. The infamous mechanically retrieved meat products / baby foods blamed for causing vCJD in the UK were exported all over the world to countries where vCJD has not erupted to date.
11. BSE fails to fulfill ' Koch's postulates'- the yardstick for gauging whether a given disease ( eg BSE )stems from infectious origins ( eg the scrapie agent ).
