{"id":846578,"date":"2026-03-24T06:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/846578\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:54:12","slug":"letters-it-is-not-well-known-that-the-british-government-was-no-longer-in-charge-of-policy-on-foot-and-mouth-in-2001-farm-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/846578\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: &#8220;It is not well known that the British Government was no longer in charge of policy on foot-and-mouth in 2001&#8221; | Farm News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis week from Farmers Guardian readers: Duncan Pickard, Balmullo, Scotland, discusses the risks of illegal meat imports and the lessons from past foot-and-mouth outbreaks, questioning whether the UK is now better prepared to respond\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n            Duncan Pickard\n    <\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"clock\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.kreatio.net\/farmers_guardian\/svg\/clock.svg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                 24 March 2026<br \/>\n         \u2022<br \/>\n        1 min read<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Duncan Pickard, Balmullo, Scotland, discusses the risks of illegal meat imports and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[239573,100060,802,748,393,239574,241949,4884,6329,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-846578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-2001-uk-foot-and-mouth-outbreak","tag-animal-health","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-foot-and-mouth","tag-foot-and-mouth-disease-strategy","tag-great-britain","tag-letters","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116282842620899845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}