This really will be the death knell for British farming.
Man I still have vivid memories of the scenes on the news of the piles of dead animals burning from the last big outbreak in 2001 (I think?).
Hardly surprising given the conditions these animals live in.
> other cloven-hoofed animals.
Has someone informed the front benchers.
Its already rife in downing street and Westminster.
No big deal if they can contain it and stop movement of animals within the county or specific villages. However it does once again provide evidence of the issues with animal agriculture and intensive farming. Diseases spread like wildfire and it does not take much for those diseases to jump the species barrier. With demand for animal products on the rise around the world, the chances of a serious illness coming from the animal agriculture industry keep growing.
Oh god no. The last one was horrific, the noise of the guns as the local farm worked steadily through 400 cattle was nightmarish and that’s before they started on the burning.
Oh ffs what else are we gonna have spring up this year
Foot and Mouth has been conclusively ruled out by a lot of tests. So now they have dead pigs but no explanation. They’ve lifted the lockdown zone for everything except other pig farms within 10km.
Yet another media trying to freak the public out notification.
Maybe we should stop breeding these animals to exist in such awful conditions
If they don’t get that under control, it’s 2001 all over again. I still remember those images from BBC news around that time. Nightmarish stuff for a kid to be seeing 😣
I’m not really liking the comparison of the farm animals to politicians.
That’s a bit mean to the farm animals…….
How does this affect humans? Couldn’t find any info! Is it just bad as it kills the animals?
Oh fuck. Fuck. Fucking fuck.
I helped to gather evidence for the inquiry into the last outbreak. Video, photos etc. In the Lake district.
It was beyond grim. The road from Penrith to Keswick with dozens of fires.
Met a farmer whose ancient family line of sheep was killed off by F&M & rendered extinct.
Another friend went nuts. He even shot his sheep dogs. 🙁
Another friend barricaded her drive.
So the army moved the barricade & drove up her loooong drive.
“Is this ABC farm?” They asked
“No, it’s ABD farm.” My buddy replied.
The Army left, scratching their heads. because they could not read a map.
Next day they came back.
“You’ve had dangerous contact…….. From the Army vehicles yesterday. Your stock will be shot.”
Auctioneer valued her stock at £90 000. Including several rare breeds.
(He was on a percentage)
She received £0.00
And they left hundreds of carcasses outside her kitchen window. For a week.
She’s never really got over that.
Airtight Irish Sea border please -Ireland/EU.
It’s almost as if we could avoid this by going vegan or something.
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Here we go…
Oh god. Here we go again.
This really will be the death knell for British farming.
Man I still have vivid memories of the scenes on the news of the piles of dead animals burning from the last big outbreak in 2001 (I think?).
Hardly surprising given the conditions these animals live in.
> other cloven-hoofed animals.
Has someone informed the front benchers.
Its already rife in downing street and Westminster.
No big deal if they can contain it and stop movement of animals within the county or specific villages. However it does once again provide evidence of the issues with animal agriculture and intensive farming. Diseases spread like wildfire and it does not take much for those diseases to jump the species barrier. With demand for animal products on the rise around the world, the chances of a serious illness coming from the animal agriculture industry keep growing.
Oh god no. The last one was horrific, the noise of the guns as the local farm worked steadily through 400 cattle was nightmarish and that’s before they started on the burning.
It’s been thoroughly tested and ruled out as FMDV. They don’t know the actual cause yet though.
https://twitter.com/APHAgovuk/status/1540299007687368706?s=20&t=EiFH66CijsJ2fg73YQ6yZA
Just stop eating animals ffs.
Oh ffs what else are we gonna have spring up this year
Foot and Mouth has been conclusively ruled out by a lot of tests. So now they have dead pigs but no explanation. They’ve lifted the lockdown zone for everything except other pig farms within 10km.
Yet another media trying to freak the public out notification.
Maybe we should stop breeding these animals to exist in such awful conditions
If they don’t get that under control, it’s 2001 all over again. I still remember those images from BBC news around that time. Nightmarish stuff for a kid to be seeing 😣
I’m not really liking the comparison of the farm animals to politicians.
That’s a bit mean to the farm animals…….
How does this affect humans? Couldn’t find any info! Is it just bad as it kills the animals?
Oh fuck. Fuck. Fucking fuck.
I helped to gather evidence for the inquiry into the last outbreak. Video, photos etc. In the Lake district.
It was beyond grim. The road from Penrith to Keswick with dozens of fires.
Met a farmer whose ancient family line of sheep was killed off by F&M & rendered extinct.
Another friend went nuts. He even shot his sheep dogs. 🙁
Another friend barricaded her drive.
So the army moved the barricade & drove up her loooong drive.
“Is this ABC farm?” They asked
“No, it’s ABD farm.” My buddy replied.
The Army left, scratching their heads. because they could not read a map.
Next day they came back.
“You’ve had dangerous contact…….. From the Army vehicles yesterday. Your stock will be shot.”
Auctioneer valued her stock at £90 000. Including several rare breeds.
(He was on a percentage)
She received £0.00
And they left hundreds of carcasses outside her kitchen window. For a week.
She’s never really got over that.
Airtight Irish Sea border please -Ireland/EU.
It’s almost as if we could avoid this by going vegan or something.