Paul_Exeter
Justified & Ancient
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I think this is actually my favoured explanation for those cases where the saleable joints aren't removed but rather the genitals/anus/ears etc are. Dartmoor is close to the dockyard at Devonport where they service nuclear submarines. There is also the fact that the US conducted numerous nuclear tests on its own land in the 40s and 50s and released a whole heap of radioactive particles into the environment. Then there also also diseases such as BSE.I read an article many years ago, either in The Anomalist, Strange magazine or Fate (I miss them all ) that commented that the pieces being taken were precisely the parts that were more susceptible to radiation damage, i.e. the bits you would want to analyse if you thought the animals had been exposed. I believe this was in relation to unidentified black helicopters in the US, and the suspicion that it was some off-the-books government monitoring project.
Essentially, the argument is that if the governments go public with the testing, then the people will become scared and angry. If they politely asked the ranchers and farmers for a few sheep and cows, or indeed bought some at market, then these animals would then be transported away from their environment and not be fed on/graze upon the potentially radioactive grass and drink the potentially radioactive water. Note that it is always cattle and sheep that are free-range out grazing that are mutilated, and seemingly never those confined to sheds and fed on grain from elsewhere.