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    Scots demand clean up.

    Seems the Scottish people have more sense than
    us (North Americans).

    UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) has purposefully
    "placed" 30 tonnes of depleted uranium rounds in
    the Solway Firth, thereby claiming they are not
    guilty of "dumping" the toxic waste.

    This travesty is not the first time. It contaminates
    the food supply of the Scottish people.

    How much DU has NATO "placed" on bases here
    in Alberta? And across Canada?

    Link to story:
    http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/anger-
    over-legality-of-scottish-du-tests

    Gives the feeding of fish-meal to livestock another
    dimension.

    More power to the Scots, I hope they force these
    tricksters to remove the DU rounds from the
    water; and stop any further DU testing.

    Do you think the Scots graze their sheep on these
    bases? Cattle graze on bases here in America.
    And deer!

    #2
    A little bit of background Kathy as this is about 20
    miles from where I grew up and farmed.
    This has been a long running controversy. The live
    firing range at Dundrennan actually fired the missiles
    directly into the Solway as it is coastal. Most of the
    firing range is stocked with both cattle and sheep,
    friends of mine have the largest part of it.
    A little further along the coast is the Luce Bay live
    bombing range where the airforce has long practised
    dropping bombs into the water.
    But the real question here concerns Sellafield - the
    nuclear reactors based on the English side of the bay.
    They of course have produced depleted uranium for
    decades and I'm not sure if it's ever been conclusively
    been proven that this stuff hasn't been leaking.
    Lots of murky stuff in them there waters.









    Do you think the Scots graze their sheep on these
    bases? Cattle graze on bases here in America.
    And deer!

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      #3
      oops, forgot to delete a bit.

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        #4
        Sellafield has a pipe taking toxic radiation laced
        water out to sea. The waters off the coast of UK
        are the happy dumping grounds for the nuclear
        industry.

        When will those rank and file of the military wake
        up and face the fact tht these DU weapons are
        toxic to life (besides the obvious effectiveness of
        the weapon). They must refuse to use them!

        I don't think I'd be grazing my livestock on these
        bases. What is the incidence of scrapie in the
        sheep of the area? Do they graze ewes and
        lambs or just young slaughter stock?

        The rains would help to migrate the DU dust from
        the grass; but it could end up in the water table.

        Dr Chris Busby of the Low Level Radiation
        Campaign is an avid researcher in this area.

        http://www.llrc.org/

        I would love to see the country and look up some
        long lost relatives.

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          #5
          The incidence of scrapie in sheep in that part of
          Scotland is almost non-existent. It's a thing the "old
          guys" used to talk about as they saw more of it a
          generation or more ago. Our family certainly never
          saw a case of it in thousands of sheep over many
          decades since my Grandfather started with sheep.
          Saying that since BSE there was a move to eradicate
          scrapie in the UK and they tested purebred sheep and
          eliminated those lines carrying it. Not too familiar
          with that as it has happened since I've been in
          Canada.
          They will graze all categories of sheep and cattle on
          the bases.

          The interesting thing was after Chernobyl the areas
          worst affected with radiation in the sheep were in SW
          Scotland and NW England (the areas both sides of the
          Solway - the body of water we are talking about with
          the depleted uranium. Looking at a map it makes no
          sense that the drift from Chernobyl would affect the
          west coast but not further east in the country. They
          blamed it on the hills we had - the high granite
          content of these mountains accumulated the radiation
          or held onto it longer was the theory. I'm pretty sure
          the true source of the high radiation readings in
          sheep was Sellafield. Truth was they had never
          measured radiation levels in sheep until after
          Chernobyl so they had no idea of background levels.

          An American neighbour we had there who was based
          in England WW2 used to tell us they were not allowed
          to go into Cornwall for R R on account of the high
          background radiation levels.

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            #6
            A victory for the people, small but still a victory.

            "MoD ends Scottish uranium shell tests

            By Rob Edwards Environment Editor

            Sunday 28 April 2013
            THE Ministry of Defence has been stopped from
            test-firing shells made of depleted uranium in
            Scotland by public opposition.


            Depleted-uranium shells were fired at
            Dundrennan near Kirkcudbright
            Defence ministers have assured MPs a planned
            weapon-testing programme will use alternatives to
            depleted uranium (DU).

            The toxic radioactive metal, used to harden
            armour-piercing tank shells, has been blamed for
            cancers and birth defects suffered by soldiers and
            civilians after the Iraq war.

            The MoD had been expected to re-start test-firing
            DU shells at the Dundrennan military range near
            Kirkcudbright later this year.

            Over 30 years, army tanks have fired 6700 shells
            into the Solway Firth from the range, containing
            nearly 30 tonnes of DU. Some shells were
            misfired and contaminated the range. High levels
            of DU were found in earthworms on the site.

            Armed forces minister Andrew Robathan has now
            said the shells "can be tested by firing variants
            that do not contain DU". Defence minister Philip
            Dunne has told the House of Commons testing
            "does not involve the firing of depleted uranium."

            Rachel Thompson from the Campaign Against
            Depleted Uranium hailed the MoD's shift as a
            "major victory," adding: "This U-turn is linked to
            increased parliamentary and public opposition to
            an environmentally dubious and potentially illegal
            practice."

            The MoD insisted the programme never required
            the firing of DU. "This is entirely unconnected to
            campaigns against test-firing," said a
            spokesman."



            http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/environment
            /mod-ends-scottish-uranium-shell-tests.20927244

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              #7
              Hi friends,

              In Vietnam fish meal is made from some kind of fishes which are dried and pureed into powder so that farmers can feed to the animals. Fish meal demand is increasing in some countries such as China, Japan.

              Nguyen Thi Cam Chi
              info@vdelta.com.vn

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