Archive Article: 2001/08/24
Still thriving trade in illegal meat imports
Peckish? How about a tasty fillet of decomposing bushrat? Perhaps rotting antelope meat? Maybe even monkey brains?
All three are readily available at metropolitan markets throughout the land. Anyone can make money by stuffing whatever filth he or she likes into a suitcase before walking through HM customs at ports and airports with little risk of detection.
With their suitcases arrive the risk of devastating human diseases, such as ebola, and animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth. As FW highlighted in March, Britain needs tough action to send suspect meat packing. All credit for the publicity given by the BBCs recent 4×4 programme and the NFUs small demonstration at Gatwick airport. Britain needs more, far more, to halt this stomach-churning threat.