The Soil Association is mailing all its organic farmers with a special voluntary vaccination fact pack, including a document which refutes the myths surrounding vaccination. Farmers are being asked to write to the prime minister and their own MPs directly. This would enable producers to protect rare or native breeds, organic livestock or highly valued breeding livestock against the disease. A meeting with the prime minister to discuss the issue was held on Monday 2 April with Patrick Holden, Fiona Reynolds, director general of the National Trust, Lawrence Woodward, director of Elm Farm Research centre and Gareth Davies, a former EU vetinerary advisor. Vaccination is effective within four to seven days Tests can identify between infected and vaccinated animals.
Vaccinated animals pose NO risk to human health.
The majority of animals entering the food chain are already vaccinated against a range of endemic diseases. It is unnecessary to kill uninfected animals once they have been vaccinated. There is no UK or EU regulation which requires vaccinated animals to be slaughtered.