My brother in law, has been told by the local council, to open the road leading through his farm,Whitecroft Lane Oswaldtwistle, because the Brown Cow Inn is losing money, due to the foot and mouth crisis. It's bad enough that the farmers are living on a knives edge as it is. Without adding to the problem. I wont risk going anywhere near farmland for the moment, for the sake of contamination. I pray the UK government helps you farmers out, and I also hope the USA government sends some support.
Farmers are important all over the world.
Most people get upset when rover the dog dies, imagine this 100 fold. I think the short sightness of a lot of thoughtless people out there who make comments about basically something they know nothing much about should stop, compassion is what is needed. As we watch from a distance in little old New Zealand we realise how lucky we are and that we could most likely wake up one day with the same thing unfolding. Which would surely crush this country as we rely on export to provide the backbone of our country. Successive Goverments have allowed cheap imports of meat products into the UK, from countries with infectious disease.