MAFF deception
[ media 1 june 2001] Was ‘contiguous cull’ illegal?
[Media 31 May 2001] This never ending nightmare by Christopher Booker
[Media May 25, 2001] Figures ‘fiddled’
[Media 24 May 2001] TRUE COST OF PLAGUE EPIDEMIC
[Media 20 May 2001] ‘Killing by stealth’ hides true scale of slaughter
[Media May 2001] Maff 'hiding behind law to conceal true picture'
June 6, 2001 Why, a farmer asks, did the government ignore its advisers?
Cockups, barbaric killing:
ANOTHER HORRIFIC CULL, IN SKIPTON THIS TIME!
[Media June 3, 2001] Maff marksmen 'took potshots at fleeing calves'
[Media 3 June 2001] Farmers sue over 'needless' foot and mouth slaughter
[Media May 2001] Blunder claims 1,200 fit animals
[Media 27 May 2001] Families see MAFF kill cow in canal
[Media 17 may 2001] The silence of the lambs has an eerie feeling
"It took 25 shots to kill five cattle, and Bill Norman is wondering why more people are not upset about it. Twenty-five shots, each counted by the villagers in Knowstone against a chorus of agonised bellowing as wounded animals tried to escape from the white-coated slaughter team. And that was only the start. As the bullocks stampeded across neighbouring fields they turned what was supposed to be a clinical operation to deal with Devon’s 164th foot-and-mouth outbreak into a three-day fiasco. The weapons they used were shotguns, firing cartridges fitted with a single, round shot. But with no rifling in the barrel or on the projectile, the speed of the shot and the killing range were limited. And with spooked, stampeding cattle, mistakes were inevitable. On Tuesday villagers looked down on the killing grounds to see one bullock go down twice and get up again before a third shot finished it off. Another was hit in the spine, losing the use of its back legs; it was left pitifully trying to raise itself on its front pair for five minutes until the slaughtermen returned to dispatch it."--Western Daily Press
[Media May 18, 2001] Why my heart was breaking
Private Eye 18 May (forest of Dean)
[Media 29 April, 2001] 3,500 complaints of ‘cruelty’
FMD killings account by Jenny Flemming
Killing in view of other animals
Account of cattle shootings
[Media 25 April 2001] ANIMAL SLAUGHTER WAS ‘FALSE ALARM’
[Media 21 April 2001] Livestock culled in 100-mile map error
[Media 16 April 2001] Live ewe in carcass lorry; says protester
[Media Wales, April 14] Cull out of
control?
[Media April 2001] Road found awash with blood
[Media April 2001] RSPCA 'appalled' by stray sheep shootings
[Media Uk, April 2001] KILLING FIELDS
[Media UK, April 10, 2001 FMD] Dairy herd sacrificed to a wrong
diagnosis
[Media Uk, April 2001 FMD] Huge cull was utter shambles family
claim
[Media UK, April 2001 FMD] SHEEP SHOT
AT RANDOM
Police state
FMD story
[Media UK, April 9, 2001 FMD] Misty, the family pet who
slept by the fire, 'murdered by Maff'
[FMD April 2001] GOAT KILLED WHILE POLICE DISTRACT OWNER
FARMER HAS HEART ATTACK AFTER MAFF HARASSMENT
[Media 14 April] RARE BREEDS EXPERT 'BLOCKADED WHILE FLOCK WAS
KILLED'
MAFF culling
6 June 2001 Virus threat from culls without vet
[ media 1 june 2001] Was ‘contiguous cull’ illegal?
[Media 3 June 2001] Farmers sue over 'needless' foot and mouth slaughter
Letter to private eye (may 2001) by Andrew Byron
[Media May 2001] Spectre of FMD fiddle to haunt election
[Media April 29, 2001] Top scientist condemns 'flawed' cull