CAE Negative!

[Nanno]

Nanno: huffy is it? I thought years about sharing my experiences with the CAE-treatment and even asked Larry if he would be interested in posting something in Goattracks. Don't think he ever did after receiving my article. Because I knew that I would face critique. But I kept the hope that it would also spark a discussion about current handling of CAE goats and owners fears to even hear the word "CAE-positive".

Yes, I thought you sounded huffy. I apologize if I read you wrong.

I'm thrilled that you want to spark a discussion about handling CAE+ goats, but in order to have a discussion you can't bow out or become defensive at the first sign of disagreement. Feel free to post anything you know about the subject here. I can guarantee it will not be censored or removed. What I can't guarantee is that everyone will agree with what you have to say. However, I will reiterate that criticism is never a reason to keep silent.

I tend to think that we here in America have a rather grandiose view of our own opinions and research, particularly when it comes to medicine. I would not be surprised if there actually were a cure for CAE (and a lot of other "incurable" diseases), but as long as that cure is not known by Americans or discovered in an American research lab, then (in our view) a cure does not exist. Cures are seldom allowed to be natural in our chemically obsessed culture. Every cure must be patentable, manufactured, and produced by a large, faceless corporation to be taken seriously in this country. I feel we miss out on a lot of good medicine that way.

On the other hand, there will always be (and should be) suspicion of any supposed cure for anything based purely on anecdotal evidence, which is all you have given us at this point. We're glad that your methods worked for you, but is there any way to prove that they will work for everyone else without the risks that Dave outlined? Your methods would have to be studied at length under controlled circumstances in order to be proven effective for general use. I hope that can happen one day. In the meantime, we must all exercise caution. Just because something worked in one circumstance does not mean it will work in all others.