It has worked well with case numbers dropping by the day. Any relaxation could cause the case numbers to shoot up again. Lets concentrate on reducing risks to human health and get the disease under control before lifting restrictions. The rate of cases has fallen so the cull of healthy animals has worked. Why do people knock the government when farming practices started Foot and Mouth not government policy.
Ministers take advice from experts.
They can only act on this advice in good faith. So little woolly Phoenix has changed the basis of government policy on contiguous slaughter from science to sentiment and political expediency. As a taxpayer, I object to my money being spent on the lame duck agricultural industry in any case. I'm now convinced that there had never been any planning in the government's actions. Next we had the serial of vaccinations.