Lecture 40 - Excerpt 2

statistics from the British government dramatically contradict the figures from horse breeders. These stats indicate that annual confirmed cattle deaths from Ragwort poisoning range from only ten to twenty. Considering that studies indicate Ragwort is more toxic to cattle than to horses, and that both cows and horses detest Ragwort’s bitter taste, critics understandably ridicule the 6,500 figure. Government: 10 to 20 deaths per year. Breeders: sixty-five hundred. That’s a rather large discrepancy, is it not?