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<blockquote data-quote="agmantoo" data-source="post: 757628" data-attributes="member: 8973"><p>MadRanchTX </p><p></p><p>I tried to purchase some dung beetles to get a start on my place of the imported dung beetles. The research and the benefits of dung beetles are typical of what happens in a country where lobbiests have too much influence. The most significant research was done in Texas and was on a government grant. It was a truly worthwhile effort. It was already known the importance of the insects from the importations of dung beetles into Australia. Here in the USA the project was showing merit and some imported dung beetles had been released. A manufacturer of insecticides being sold to the cattle industry saw that the introduction of the dung beetles was going to impact the sale of fly control products. Thur the efforts of the insecticide industry and their lobbiests they influenced some politicians to get the grant withdrawn as the results were "conflicting with the insecticide industry to conduct free trade". The industry was not satisfied just to do that. Under mandate they managed for all the research information and lab tests be required to be destroyed. There are two individuals I am aware of that on their own have continue to study the insects. One of these persons in at a university in Texas. This reply is based on what I remember from a number of years ago and is thought by me to be accurate. What a shame.</p><p>PS...Dr. Pat Richardson, female at Texas A&M is the Texas expert</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="agmantoo, post: 757628, member: 8973"] MadRanchTX I tried to purchase some dung beetles to get a start on my place of the imported dung beetles. The research and the benefits of dung beetles are typical of what happens in a country where lobbiests have too much influence. The most significant research was done in Texas and was on a government grant. It was a truly worthwhile effort. It was already known the importance of the insects from the importations of dung beetles into Australia. Here in the USA the project was showing merit and some imported dung beetles had been released. A manufacturer of insecticides being sold to the cattle industry saw that the introduction of the dung beetles was going to impact the sale of fly control products. Thur the efforts of the insecticide industry and their lobbiests they influenced some politicians to get the grant withdrawn as the results were "conflicting with the insecticide industry to conduct free trade". The industry was not satisfied just to do that. Under mandate they managed for all the research information and lab tests be required to be destroyed. There are two individuals I am aware of that on their own have continue to study the insects. One of these persons in at a university in Texas. This reply is based on what I remember from a number of years ago and is thought by me to be accurate. What a shame. PS...Dr. Pat Richardson, female at Texas A&M is the Texas expert [/QUOTE]
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