The spirit of Nongqause lives on in today’s bureaucracy. It fails to encourage the survival and multiplication of resistant individuals

A prophetess of the Xhosa tribe in South Africa had a vision telling her that all cattle of the tribe would have to be slaughtered, having been reared by contaminated hands.

In the frenzy that followed, they killed between 300,000 and 400,000 head of cattle.

The resulting famine, the population of the province dropped from 105,000 to fewer than 27,000 .

Viv Forbes is a scientist and pastoralist who has spent a lifetime learning how to raise healthy cattle, sheep, goats, poultry, and pastures.

Viv Forbes : The bureaucracy is forever seeking ways to identify, keep track of, and vaccinate every one of us and our animals.

They love electronic tracking — electronic ear tags are already compulsory for Australian cattle, and from now on, all new sheep and goat offspring must get their electronic tags.