Updates/recent additions
DOWN ON THE FARM [Privaye Eye June 29, 2001]
Friday 22 June 2001 Judge saves life of movie pig Grunty
No truth please, we're journalists by Jonathan Miller
ANOTHER HORRIFIC CULL, IN SKIPTON THIS TIME!
June 6, 2001 Why, a farmer asks, did the government ignore its advisers?
6 June 2001 Virus threat from culls without vet
From: JOHN GOURIET psc FRGS Chairman 1400hrs 4 June 2001
[ media 1 june 2001] Was ‘contiguous cull’ illegal?
[Media June 4, 2001] Why isn't the Government paying for foot and mouth?
[Media June 3, 2001] Maff marksmen 'took potshots at fleeing calves'
[Media June 3, 2001] Why I believe Labour plans to wipe out farmers like me
[Media 3 June 2001] Farmers sue over 'needless' foot and mouth slaughter
[Media 31 May 2001] This never ending nightmare by Christopher Booker
Special report: foot and mouth disease---George Monbiot
[Media May 25, 2001] Figures ‘fiddled’
Letter to private eye (may 2001) by Andrew Byron
[Media May 2001] Blunder claims 1,200 fit animals
[Media 25 May 2001] A cruel cull of healthy animals
[Media 27 May 2001] Families see MAFF kill cow in canal
[Media 26 May 2001] Food watchdog warns of dioxin threat in milk
[Media 24 May 2001] TRUE COST OF PLAGUE EPIDEMIC
[Media 25 May 2001] DON'T DRINK THE WATER
[Media MAY 23 2001] This wretched cult of blood and money
[Media May 2001] Maff 'hiding behind law to conceal true picture'
[Media 20 May 2001] ‘Killing by stealth’ hides true scale of slaughter
[Media 17 May 2001] Cull may have been excessive, says foot-and-mouth adviser
[Media 16 May 2001] A catalogue of failures that discredits the whole system
[Media 17 may 2001] The silence of the lambs has an eerie feeling
[Media 18 May 2001] Can Exmoor survive?
"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
[Media 17 May 2001] The country comes a calling on London
[Media 17 May 2001] Crisis claims farmer's life
"In our six parishes, 37 farms have had all their livestock killed because of foot and mouth disease on three holdings, and subsequent blood tests haven’t even substantiated those. There is quite a lot of anger about because of so much apparently needless slaughter."-----Prebendary Frank Rodgers, the Vicar of Clodock and Longtown with Craswall, Llanveynoe, St Margaret’s, Michaelchurch Escley and Newton (Hereford).
MAN IN THE EYE—PROFESSOR ROY ANDERSON
Private Eye 18 May (forest of Dean)
[Media May 2001] Spectre of FMD fiddle to haunt election
[Media 4 May 2001] The village going to war to save a farmer's herd
[Media 5 may 2001] Did scientists start foot and mouth plague?
ILLEGAL ENTRY (Carolyne Hoffe)
[Media May 5, 2001] Slaughter officials move in to kill widow's pet sheep
JOINT INSTRUCTION TO REGIONAL OPERATIONS DIRECTORS & DIVISIONAL VETERINARY MANAGERS (april 27)
The Killing Fields by John Gouriet--3rd May
[Media April, 2001] Top scientist condemns 'flawed' cull
[Media 27 April, 2001] ARMED OFFICER ACTION BRANDED ‘OVER THE TOP’
OWNER BARRICADES SHEEP IN LIVING ROOM
Meeting between Representatives of NSA, Sheep, Veterinary Society (SVS) and Dr Paul Kitching
[Media 28 April, 2001] Forest farmers refuse to allow sheep cull
Letter. Hereford Times, April 26, 2001 (EU influence)
FARMER HAS HEART ATTACK AFTER MAFF HARASSMENT
[Media 29 April, 2001] 3,500 complaints of ‘cruelty’
[Media April 29, 2001] Smoke from burning pyres ‘will kill humans’
Foot and Mouth Epidemic By Bernard Jarman
[Media 28 April, 2001] Give your animals away, farmers told
[Media USA April, 2001] Last of condemned sheep trucked away
[Media April 2001] All sense sacrificed to the golden calf--Simon Jenkins
[Media 29 April, 2001] Foot and mouth figures massaged to help election--Christopher Booker
[Media 29 April, 2001] A peasant revolts—Jonathan Miller
My communication anomalies by Dr Richard Lawson, Green Party F&MD Campaign Co-ordinator
FMD killings account by Jenny Flemming
[Media 29 April 2001] Army 'caused original foot and mouth infection'
[Media April 29, 2001] Top scientist condemns 'flawed' cull
[Media 27 April] 'Carcinogenic' sleepers seized
[Media 27 April] OK, so Phoenix has risen - now Porky looks set to hog the limelight
[Media 25 April 2001] ANIMAL SLAUGHTER WAS ‘FALSE ALARM’
[Media 21 April 2001] Sacrificial lambs
[Media 23 April, 2001] Distraught farmer found hanged
[footandmouth] Paul Kitching interview transcript - vets rebel!
[Media, April 23, 2001] Sentenced to death, the horses too dear to keep
[Media 25 April, 2001] Phoenix, the calf they couldn't cull, fights on
[Media April 4, 2001] Unholy Mess ---Vandana Shiva (India)
[Media 24 April, 2001] Protesters stop slaughter again (Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire)
[Media April 24, 2001] Cheers after incinerator U-turn
[Media April 24, 2001] The unlikely giant killers (Anglesey)
[Media 24 April 2001] "I couldn't sleep last night--all I could see was the slaughterman"
[Media 24 April 2001] Smallholders win fight over cull
[Media 23 April 2001] Health fears over burning pyres
[Media 23 April 2001] Villagers in protest at MAFF slaughter
[Media 22 April] Foot and mouth virus spreads to wild deer
Letter to The Independent---Dr Jim Hutchison
Letters to BMJ Re Foot and Mouth
[Media 23 April, 2001] VICTORY FOR CULL PICKETS
[Media 23 April 2001] Cancer fear from animal pyre chemicals
[Media 22 April 2001] Pyres create more pollution than all the factories in UK
[Media 22 April 2001] Angry stockmen rebel over NFU
[Media 22 April 2001] Farmers take to the barricades
Joanna Lumley leads cull protest
20/04 (20:17) FACE FACTS ON CARCASS MOUNTAIN, SAY FARMERS
[Media 20 April 2001] Dutch farm disease policy under fire
MAFF faked blood test re swine fever
[Media 21 April 2001] Livestock culled in 100-mile map error
[Media April 21, 2001] Burials proceed despite health fears
[Media 20 April 2001] VETS’ LEADER CRITICISES ‘CARNAGE BY COMPUTER’
[Media 21 April 2001] Foot-and-mouth 174,660 carcasses lie across Devon
Cost of Foot and Mouth to business considerable, says IoD
[Media, 20 April 2001] Former MAFF vet slams government
[Media April 20, 2001] Farmers accused of vaccination 'hypocrisy'
[Media 20 April 2001] Foot and mouth 'has cost £20bn in lost business'
[Media April 19, 2001] Farm wins battle against slaughter
[Media April 19, 2001] Chaos as cull is set to be shot down in Europe
[Media 19 April] Farm barricaded in bid to keep out slaughterers
[April 19] NEWS RELEASE-- Epynt Action Group
REPORT FROM THE FRONT--JOHN GOURIET
Speech of Jonathan Miller Sunday Times Mean Fields columnist