Politics.be - Re: ANC Using Bird Flu Scare To Seize Farms?

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> South Africa's largest water bird breeder, Mnr. Hilko Insel, is
> fighting the legal battle of his life against the Communist-ANC
> government, over claims that his entire bird collection must be put to
> death because they carry a strain of the bird flu.
>
> Mnr. Insel's water fowl collection is in jeapordy because he
> unwittingly purched birds from another farmer that were hatched from
> eggs illegally imported into South Africa from Holland. The contraband
> duck and swan eggs were allegedly infected with a strain of the bird
> flu virus. Mnr. Insel did not ask where the birds came from because
> they had already gone through all proper quarantine regulations before
> being offered for sale. All of those birds hatched from these eggs
> purchased by Mnr. Insel have already been culled.
>
> Mnr. Insel says the SA Agriculture Department's demand for his entire
> bird collection to be culled is going too far, as he has not even been
> given a fair chance to have blood samples taken from the other birds to
> see if they are in fact infected.
>
> With his farm being placed under quarrantine last week Saturday, the
> Agriculture Department had more than enough time to have every single
> bird tested, argues the bird breeder. "All I recieved was a culling
> order from the Department that was adament that every bird be culled,"
> Mnr. Insel says in this exclusive radio interview, available for
> download below. At the time of this broadcast (Friday, August 25th)
> none of his birds still had been tested.
>
> Another farmer who purchased birds from the same farmer had all his
> birds tested for bird flu and those results came up negative. Despite
> this, the court still ruled that all those birds be culled.
>
> When the order came down in court for his water fowl collection to be
> culled, Mnr. Insel says Dr. Bothle Michael Modisane, National Minister
> of Animal Health, "jumped up and down... I couldn't understand it."
> However, Mnr. Insel has gotten an legal interdiction that will stop the
> culling order until Monday.
>
> Mnr. Insel's collection, located in Pretoria, South Africa, numbers
> more than 800. Several of the birds, such as the blue crane and the
> black neck swan, are on the list of endangered species. Published
> reports put the value of his collection at more than 2 million SA Rand
> (US$280,000).
>
> There have been no mortalities among Mnr. Insel's bird collection for
> at least three months, and no birds show any signs of any diseases.
> "Even the veteranarians [from the Department] tell me they cannot
> believe this is happening, but because it is an order from National,
> they are just fulfilling their job, otherwise they would be fired."
>
> "I really don't know what the modus operandi is behind the whole
> situation, all I can say is that I don't understand, my common sense
> cannot tell me, why I cannot be allowed to have my birds tested to
> prove that they are not infected? In all fairness, I cannot even prove
> that my birds are not infected, but [the ANC-Communist government] does
> not want to listen. They just want to say, 'just kill all the birds'".
>
> "There is not one infected bird on my farm," a defiant Insel states. "I
> was not given the opportunity to prove my birds are not infected by
> taking blood samples and having them properly tested, there are no
> birds are not dying so there is no epidemic. If there is such a crisis
> that requires my birds to be culled, why did they wait a week before
> they came to me and said they must be culled? And why wait another week
> with my birds in quarantine to have a culling order?
>
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