In a message dated 07/01/2010 15:56:20 GMT Standard Time,  
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>  With cows, sheep etc this is simply standard practice, and it is simple  
to
> exclude vulnerable individuals from contributing to the next   generation.
> Rule of thumb: if you need to get the vet out, they go  to  market - out 
of
> the possibility of breeding.  The  selection of the best  parents is
> undertaken as a high  art.
>

Please clarify this. If they "need to get the vet out,  they go to market"?
Certainly makes me want to stay away from organic  meat.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine


Bill, if an individual needs the vet (while the rest don't) that animal  
should be kept out of the breeding pool, so as not to pass that weakness  on.  
It a bit rough and ready, but good to make the point - make the new  
generation only from the strongest.  
 
But they pretty much all end up in the market eventually -  your 
'non-organic' steak might also have had a dozen infections by the time  it lands on 
your table.
 
Are you sincere in saying you're not following the general idea here?  
 
Mike
 
http://www.suttonjoinery.co.uk/CCD/

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