I agree with much of what was said but the continuing will they/won't they
about vaccination has been really unhelpful, and the failure to ban
livestock movements for 4 days after the first confirmed outbreak was
unforgivable.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 11:00 AM
Subject: RE: Man contracts Foot And Mouth Disease!
> I would disagree here. The government has specifically listened to the
> farmers which I think is where they whent wrong.
>
> Hind sight is a wonderful thing, but FMD could easily have been
> erradicated with mass vacciniation programmes. The larger farms did not
> want this as this would destroy their export market of around �600Million
> a year (figure is incorrect but around that level).
>
> You also have to consider that farmers get market value compensation for
> any animals destroyed so there are some elements that were happy to have
> their animals destroyed (Farming is not as financially rewarding as it
> used to be and many farms were close to the brink of financial collapse).
>
> So the government let the MAFF (which mainly represents large farms)
> decide the course of action. To blame the governement (and I can't see how
> you could blame any government when it handed the handling of this
> emergency) is a bit of a poor excuse.
>
> There are many issues here. Farming is a government subsidised industry.
> Through taxation, each person in the UK subsidises the farm industry
> indirectly. While this is still the case and the true cost of farm produce
> is not reflected then this will always be a problem.
>
> I am sure that had the UK declared that we will not destroy any animals,
> but innoculate, and there will be no compensation (why should there be?)
> then you would have had stronger support from the MAFF for this idea.
>
> You should also ask why farmers had no insurance against this type of
> thing? Because in such an event they would be compensated.
>
> What this obscures is that the UK gets far more income from Tourism than
> farming. This crisis has literally obliterated that income. This is far
> more significant.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Putterill [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 25 April 2001 10:01
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Man contracts Foot And Mouth Disease!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ang�l Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 8:46 PM
> Subject: RE: Man contracts Foot And Mouth Disease!
>
>
> > So what would you have done differently?
> >
> > -Gel
> > *wry smile*
>
> <climbs on soapbox>
> Talked to the Farmers! The current government we have seems to think that
> discussion is a sin of some type...
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wayne Putterill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > Mind you the way the government has handled it is completely incompetent
> as
> > usual...
> >
> >
> >
>
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