Have your say – to 26 September, 2001
26 September 2001
Have your say – to 26 September, 2001
Plot to end beef industry
I was in France recently when a
Frenchman calmly informed me that foot and mouth was
political.
He said there is too much meat throughout Europe and he
thought it strange that France, Holland etc eradicated
this latest virus immediately but it is still raging here in UK.
Am I
alone in thinking that it is some bizarre plot by our Government to rid us
of our beef industry?
Towing the tractor line
I have been alarmed by the staff in our local supermarkets who inform me that the meat with the tractor logo on it is,
British. When I try to explain that it may not be they tell me that this is what they are told to tell the customer.
Has anyone else experienced the same and what can we do about it?
Where is the common sense?
Are we going to have an outbreak of common sense from the NFU, DEFRA and
others dealing with the foot and mouth crisis? How long can animals continue to be
slaughtered that do not have the disease?
What is the matter with
vaccinating, surely it is time to leave those entrenched positions behind?
No notice has been taken of the 1967 report. This
advocated burial in quicklime on the farm. This of course was too simple
for the powers that be, so they are carting the dead animals about the
countryside.
We are continuously being
told that the virus must have come in on illegally imported meat. If the
virus lives in such meat, how does it not live in animals that have been
diagnosed with foot & mouth, slaughtered, and then carted about the
countryside. It does not make sense.
PT Hughes
Stats dont stack up
DEFRA statistics! Has anyone else noticed that Ministry statistics do not
add-up?
Total cases of FMD vary from one part of the site to another,
even on the same day.
Officials seem to be slower and slower giving out
daily statitics at 5pm and details of cases are becoming harder and harder
to find.
Pulling the wool over our eyes? Playing down a developing
crisis? Surely a public inquiry would look at accuracy of information,
among other things – no wonder they dont want one!
Caroline Cardwell