Prince Charles, according to Reuters, is the owner of a tenanted farm in southwest England that has been struck by the disease. To us, there is a striking similarity between these modern plagues and those of ancient Egypt when the ruling Pharaoh, whose heart was hardened, would not listen to God's instructions to let the Israelites go. Those ancient Israelites were in a similar position as the enslaved farm animals of today. The more we mistreat the animals, the more we believe these plagues will increase in their frequency. Something that is obvious, simply by its omission, in every news report that we have read is empathy of any sort for the thousands of innocent animals that are being destroyed.
Hearts are so hardened that even a pretense of feeling for the animals is absent.
This latest fiasco is an evil driven by the love of money, period. And while we're talking about the love of money driving this plague, we should consider that Foot and Mouth Disease rarely affects humans and is seldom fatal to animals. What it does do is cause them to lose weight, most likely because it's too painful to eat and get around. The killing of these animals is purely economic, as is the effect of the plague. Furthermore, as Deborah Jones states above, if these animals were properly cared for they would have been inoculated to prevent Foot and Mouth Disease.