For 6 years Professor Richard Lacey (United Kingdom) warned of the possible link between Mad Cow Disease (BSE) and CJD (a disease fatal to humans). Professor Lacey's warnings were ignored and it now seems he was correct in his assertions re the BSE - CJD connection.

Scientists from around the world have warned authorities in both Australia and New Zealand of the possible dangers to human health and the health of other species if the two respective countries adopted rabbit hemorrhagic disease as a biological control agent of the European rabbit. Both Australia and now New Zealand have capitulated to the powerful farming lobbies who have great influence on the respective governments of both countries. RHD is now a legal biological control agent of the European rabbit in both Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand farmers defied their own government's "no" decision on the RHD issue and illegally imported RCD/RHD and spread the RHD disease after which the New Zealand government capitulated to the farmer's demands to legalise RHD as a biological control. This made a sham and a mockery of the consideration process in New Zealand and their legal system and quarantine controls.