Jo Jones is a farmer in Wales. It s a bereavement. It s the most frightening, terrifying and soul-destroying experience you can ever live through, other than losing my husband and my daughter. The crisis also provokes anger. Farmers who are isolated and who face the prospect of losing their entire livelihood, seek targets on which to vent their frustrations.
Journalists have, more than once, become such targets.
I remember watching a gesticulating figure as we filmed a burning pyre from the road. He was working at the unfortunate task and at first we thought he wanted to explain something about the particular problem on that farm. We were wrong. He was furious and marched the several hundred metres towards us to let us receive the full blast of his fury. We were among the culprits, he let us know in pretty raw language, because we were wandering around the countryside, carrying potential infection on our boots or clothes.