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, Here we are in
death valley SO here we are in death val ley where thousands of ani mals are being killed every day
on.farms and in fields -
and why? Foot and mouth perhaps
more serious disease is caus-. ing these deaths — human
not really! No, a'mucK
insanity. I, like hundreds of other
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farmers, sit here worrying myself sick, wondering if my cows and sheep are going to be next to get the bullet and join the other 3.2 million animals burnt or buried, when a safe and" effective vaccine sits on a shelf somewhere unused. How a handful of insane people - known in newspa pers and television as fann ers' leaders and NFU - can convince the country to spend billions on obscene slaughter and disposal of healthy productive animals beggars belief. About two million animal
slaughterings ago, a debate went something like this. "If
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we vaccinate, it will cost a few pence per animal, would take a few minutes to administer with perhaps a repeat dose needed in six months. Ninety five per cent of all vaccinated ani mals would then not catch the disease and the remain ing 5%; would have to be slaughtered if they became infected. The country could ^
' immediately go back to nor mal; animals could be moved, footpaths could be opened and foot and mouth would be forgotten. "If, instead, we slaughter,
it will cost several hundred pounds per animal to kill (cost of bullet plus cost of animal). We have to kill sev
eral thousand more healthy stock per infected animal to try to stop it spreading. We then proceed to burn and
‘ bury a t a cost of several, hundred pounds per carcass along with a massive risk of ground and air pollution. The next1 step is to disinfect
every slaughtered farm at a cost.of several thousand pounds per farm. Then we forbid the farm to produce anything for the forseeable future, wasting thousands of acres of land and, at the same time, impose s trict restrictions on normal farm ing practice over the whole country.1
We are all connected,, ...- All sharing the same
after all. All part of nature.
planet. Yet we have this ability
" My theory is th a t we •know compassion can inca- pacitate and destroy, us, so we push the self-preserva tion button as hard as we can and drown out the cries of the animals. But this policy isn’t
to switch off compassion. Why?
healthy, why can't they be processed into our food chain - as normally healthy cattle are? I would not reintroduce a theme into your newspaper, but
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ted my inquiry, only pro- thought through the impli- Paperwork and duced an A4 envelope full of cations of such large-scale o glossy material, but nothing . animal farming in thafiret ■'before and
to whom I submit- response from
and an ironic spin-off is that, in the sheer scale of it all, we have imposed untold financial and environmental problems on ourselves, not just for now, b u t for the indefinite future. Perhaps if the powers th a t be had
to answer my question.-: place, .we wouldn't be in Animals are reared for such a mess. „
working any more. The cries of the animals are telling us something vital now. It's into millions now, and all because a s didn't care enough to stop it. Foot and mouth is not a
serious disease. What's seri- ous is th a t money can be lost because of it.-..},... ; . /■ For the sake of a few peo ple making a lot of money,
so cut off from nature, we haven't followed our instincts; we haven't both
ered to find out more. . Now, the slaughter policy
has reached the proportions of a
war.Troops are massing in the
disease doesn't keep spread ing.";„Quite an argument, but
'We then hope the. wipedout??'
the IJFUresponse: 1. "If we vaccinate we will
lose our export trade" - how can you lose something you have not got? 2. "If we vaccinate, peo
ple will not eat our meat or drink our milk." Well, see ing th a t the chance of catching foot and mouth in humans is millions of mil lions to one, and the fact that we vaccinate our ani mals for a whole host of dis ease; such as leptospirosis and orf, which are transmit- table to humans, with no detriment to sales, their argument does not hold much water. Guess who won the argu
ment? Guess who's not sleeping very well again
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JOHN COWPERTHWAITE, Cockshutts Farm, Pendleton, Clitheroe.
Real business
of the killing WHAT is the matter with
us?' : What’s
wr.ong with us that we do not feel animal
suffering?
, _______.____ nlo/m Ufowmi nn't
be.in uon.v-i slaughter. The grief of On an individual level,
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farmers is to see a life's com- the bottom line for every- mitment wasted in the one is always the same. If burning and burying of ani- you feel uncomfortable mals they have bred and about anything that's hap-
cared for. Surely, there would be an alleviation of the despair of wanton wastage if healthy am
.........Chathurn,
normal way. PTT77T FD
tion. Get reall • :
our compassion and sup port.
The chances are that the " ,
sheep he refers to were, moved legally, under licence, following veterinary
inspection,-completion of in
, . ?:•“ more than a dozen pieces.of.'.ui.
or even consider the repre sentations made. What is the solution? People could chain themselves to trees. It may yet come to that.
could express their dissatis faction bv exercising their
Alternatively, people
/Ucinfpotion • • democratic ngiit. ^!“ ailers MR JO HARDING, ;.
lacuuu uy ?.’ ty
transporta- Shawbridge Street, ■ ' v . __ciitheroe.----------- ' -M—
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'COUN. PHILIP NIEROP, Tile House,
Bolton-by-Bowland. (On behalf of the farmers around Bolton-by-Bowland ,
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pening, ask yourself why? This crisis challenges peo
ple by stripping away some of the sanitization-that
i were
aiau6.iravU... makes meat production abbatoirs and processed morally palatable, and pre- senting us with what, foot ' " - and mouth aside, goes on * inside the four .walls of an -abattoir y^ar in, year out,
nimals were slaughtered in into the food market in the
we have put up- with- an—clitheroe. iniquitous,, unscientific and cruel policy Because we are
Nature will play her part
—-; to-put meat on the plate. r r c So far, since the crisis began, one-and-a-half mil lion people have voted with
IT’S all wrong! Mass murder - yes, war
against poor defenceless ahdSawley). Deer maybe
responsible YOUR article, "Deer safe for the time being";' allows MAFF to slide off the hook . for not stating that deer are
quite able to spread foot
and mouth even if ^they rarely catch it themselves. Thousands, of healthy
their feet and embraced cattle have already been vegetarianism -r hardly ' killed because. they were
"cranks with their fads", near to an outbreak of foot And, according to Ian John- and month" but, for senti- son; NFU spokesman for mental reasons which might the South-West, this is a affect an election result,
Then th e Kibble Valley/'" • one family. But they'did not, t ip p e d f rom lo r r ie s or : Dartmoor is bli the b r ink' jj-ju Df f th e rem a in in g h a u le d b y c ran e s o n to
Cumbria is about’to'be - the dreaded TB which
..treated.-seeuigthe indigni- ipeuuub.. . > '-i-hi.miomii ciaimed two or
three.lives’in. ty. jwith; which they are
- ^ I n the 1920s, we had a - r^uft of their realisation at > .... terrible flu epidemic, also.; last ofthe way animalsare
’ . . i i .1 rrvn _1.1 ffooforl Q claimed two or tnree uves m. x j . j 'v
of losingeverything.'- Derbyshire is next on the
list. Lincolnshire after that.
There are plans to wipe out every animal left in the
Forest of Dean. These are just the ones I
know about. What is going on?
i This election is just a dis- • traction from the real busi
Does anyone care? /
ness of ldllirig A- .A ® HILARY PETERS, v ’ at Gisburn. '
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still carry on IN response to the remarks of "Eagle Eyes" of last week, congratulations on
his hawk-like observations! .....
"stock" and there were’ ho antibiotics or vaccines then. They must never forget th a t mother nature will
__ remaining
play her part too! . A mature, experienced farmer, I think, would
agree. Just a country woman for
80yearsl
E. GREEN, Grindleton.
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Farm life must MY sincere thanks to Mr their letter last week which,
n ao
Insult to everyj' evolved,- Mr and Mrs human being and Mrs E. Walmsley for with its "crocodiles" and
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is not "a load of rubbish", ,tar ian cause further than ^ erydecent h™an being but a very serious threat to^. words from me ever could.
farming as we know it. I t is ' ■ when my original letter ANN R. STEVENSON, was published in the form Read.
However, foot and mouth ing and advanced the vege- sugg PUI> -VUljF aciiuuo muwuw
"sharks" and all the rest of its ill-informed, bigoted and jingoistic rhetoric, has done more damage to meat eat-
a disease which knows no boundaries, and has no respect for £he lives of the many animals and people it
affects. Yet animals cannot look
after themselves and farm life must go on, in order that the livestock is proper
ly looked after. Livestock MUST be
moved to fresh pastures where the grass has been replenished. "Eagle Eyes" seems to
must occur, iiiegaiiy.
the editor chose, I made a note of some of the stereo typed phrases and argu ments that could be expect ed in reply, and I was not disappointed. In fact, they quite surpassed themselves, with "the roast beef of Old
England". Their naive points don't
have assumed th a t ^ h i s ^ ^ a what we then; as sup- must occur, illegally. Farmr; posed higher beings, do
even merit an answer, beyond that evolution in its truest sense is the result of ever-increased knowledge
| mouth, to ensure an income I is made to retain farming's
Farmers need
our support IF your-correspondent,
"Eagle Eyes", has any knowledge or suspicion of illegal animal movements, he has a duty, moral if not legal, to pass such informa tion to MAFF as a matter of urgency. If he has not, he should refrain from anonymous,
ers still have to farm their.. wjt j1 th a t knowledge, s e t . attacks on the farming livestock- to its full poten- against the morality and community, which is suffer- tial, regardless of. foot and
p o sed n ig n e r oeiuga, uu cowardly, an d ill-informed
| future.. M I would like to point out
that there is NOT a total . .-^h ey can; asx muse wuuith ban -on"]livestock- n to t^ ^ f c rm a t io n ; discuss with ments/A farmer maygmoy^ ^ i jo s e they know hold an
powers of reasoning we also have. There are none so blind as those who will not see. People should go and seek knowledge - read all
..they
k tho
his livestock annuid hiswiir opposing view, land as Ipng^'to^roads,arec& i q f course it's about
mm 1 crossed.'' -""11"'" A farmer may also apply
fox a licence to move his livestock, providing no
I investigation for foot and mouth disease, in their
cases are under ongoing
restricted zone. If granted, the licence
I 'vet;has’-t6'inspect the live- |.*-al*.--4 .S J* . _ —
may take several days to come .through./On. the day of the movement, a MAFF _____________
I'.take'Sfplace. May I also ' TheGovernment^from;- remind "Eagle Eyes" that the beginning, has had as its farmers work 24 hours a priority the meat export; day, seven days a week, and market; closing down the can move their livestock at • countryside to prevent whatever time of day or. spread of the disease, while
stock-before any movement ^ e sheer numbers involved/ _ ■ ■ . /.../Wrt Otl 1
night they wish. As I have pointed out,
j there are many reasons why the livestock could have been moved. I don't know which of these reasons applied, nor does "Eagle
| Eyes." Perhaps he should think of the immense stress,
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■ suffering and pain our farm- | ers are already .enduring before yet another accusa-
still not vaccinating; then I when the grip was so tight as to strangle tourism, with | an eye to Easter, Spring Bank Holiday and, of course, the election, it gave out its "open for business" message again as if farmers! still battling new "outbreaks 1 didn't even exist.. They set their slaughter
| tion is laid at the farmers! doorstep. NELLY THE ELEPHANT, Clitheroc.
I Waste of life’s
commitment SOME weeks ago, one of your; correspondents sug gested that,! since foot and mouth’disease is not harm ful to humans, why. couldn't. the; slaughtered animals be processed) and sent to alle-' viate the hunger of th e - starving millions dying of malnutrition in the world. My question is related. It
is necessary to accept the culling of healthy animals around.an infected area. -But if these animals are checked a n d : certified
A A: m s s
targets and seem oblivious of many of the barbaric
ways these are being achieved.. I refer to the Walmsleys and anyone else seeking a truer picture to
page 4 of the Times supple- | ment of May 24th, because i
frankly, a family paper like | the Advertiser and Times , just would not print such horrific detail. .
One farmer's comment on i .1
; the MAFF slaughter team on;his farm was: "All they, | are: thinking about is get- . :'tihg on to their, next job |
:• because they are paid by the job."
Perhaps it's time those
just What the figures are here.
At no stage do we hear | much about animal rights,
' t .
who don't think it's all | about money started asking
money, ro frr\m whatever ancle angle you look at it - what else do the Walmsleys suppose it's about
farmers are concerned, agri- | cultural subsidies encourage overstocking which, in tuni, creates problems of 'placing stock, leading to necessary travel between them, which, when foot and mouth^rearal its head, result’sT%jiuclir|. slaughter just because of,
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ing beyond his clearly-limit ed comprehension. The farmers need and deserve
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pyres and into pits". Throughout this crisis, I
have tried to support farm ing friends in Galloway, who suffered heavily in the first wave of the crisis, as they have attempted to support me, fully mindful of my views and .the distress I have felt on behalf of, the
V . That is the way real peo- pie of "strength, valour and
animals.
- determination" have ^ Walinsley, hot standing on
the white cliffs of Dover, repeating jingoistic cliches, with one blind eye pressed to the telescope and the other firmly shut. Moral fibre has no more to do with a plate of "the roast beef of Old England" than it has a
The poisoned i
tree stumps I WOULD like to bring to. your attention that the prq- posed felling of 41 trees around the Castle
keep.is not 10% of the trees, as many people believe, but 100% of the trees men
tioned. Yes, it is 10% of all trees
in the park.
I think the general public should also be aware th a t -
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English Heritage insists that the stumps are left and that, to stop growth, they are poisoned. CONCERNED.
MAFF have spared the deer, although they have been in the same fields as
cattle and sheep. ■ Am I to believe that deer
disinfect themselves when they pass freely from farm to farm?, ..
Do we need a new venue?
THE "slash and bum” atti tude to Clitheroe has no place in any structured soci-
Your readers will recall ■
th a t Mr Blair postponed the election so that he could take personal control of the outbreak and they should
. now reflect, as the outbreak spreads ever, wider, that the needless slaughter of over three million animals must
JOHN RICE, Newsholme.
The felling is unjustified
T“ST"i" j-gne, and to mi lsuna otherwise insults Vniman beinz
FURTHER to the letters about the felling of the Cas tle trees, there seems to be a dersitanding.
The council keeps repeat- what I believe is John Lan- um
planning to fell 100% of the trees on the Castle mound. In other words, all the trees in that area. And according to a le tte r from English Heritage, which I have read, 41 poisoned stumps will probably be left. I agree with the previous writers (and with their reasons) that this felling is complete-'
grounds. However, they are
ly unjustified. People have complained
to the unelected officers of the council. One person col lected 300 names in just two hours for a petition. Anoth er has suggested a phased programme with review, or thinning. But the officers will not change their minds,
• consider the St Michael and St John's playing fields to be appropriate for John Lancaster's arts showcase. At the same time, per
ety..We are urged to protect green fields from continuing development. Perhaps those promoting this should speak to Ribble Valley Bor ough Council, who rashly
surely also He.his P™ * 1 ^ responsibility.
haps, thought should also be given to the other bor-
^ " s u g g e s t i o n , th a t of th e parish hall being
suitable as a site, with the knock-on feature of it being demolished of course. St James' Church is now
Garden dies a
A KEEN Ribble Val ley gardener whose wonderful display at Read was a source of delight when opened to the public has died at
the age of 76. Mr James Bowker,
always Jimmy to family and friends, was ill for only a short time and died in Burnley General Hospital the day he was admitted. For-many years Mr
available as a further con cert venue and you wonder how many more Clitheroe needs or can support. The public meeting at Ribblesdale School a few weeks ago demonstrated
ing that it is only planning caster's approach to Ribble to fell 10% of the trees. Valley
Borough.Council They are 10%”, that is, of all and, indeed, it seems to me, . the trees in the Castle for the market traders,
behind Mr Lancaster to , demand the market car park be handed to him by the council almost as a mat ter of right. The fact that the market traders are not local is quite natural when the market is only open a few days each week and the traders will be a t other town markets for those remaining days. The offer of the Kirk-
We were asked to rally
moor Road depot by the council to John Lancaster does appear entirely satis factory, especially to. those in that area who have to live with the noise and dust of the refuse wagons.
LAZARUS.
Bowker was involved in the family wholesale and retail tobacconist business in Burnley. There was a ware house in Piccadilly Road and a shop at the town cen tre end of Manchester Road. Mr Bowker and his brother, Geoffrey, jointly ran the firm, Bowker’s Cash and Carry) which was start ed by their grandfather. It closed when he retired T<
yearsago. Mr Bowker and his wife Doreen,'were'best know
for their sblendi'd parklan garden, which they threw open'two and three times year for charity as part o the National Garden. Scheme.
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