Farmers Building up Resistance

Mass Slaughters Are a Violation of the Universal Order
The word for FMD in Masai is a synonym for influenza

Chronology of FMD
26 June 1990
According to guideline 90/423/EU, the EU member states are obliged to prohibit the use of FMD vaccine.
1998
EU meeting of Agriculture Ministers informed of European Commission’s plans to abolish livestock farming in the UK, and convert it to an area of arable farming only.
End of 2000
FMD viruses are found ‘missing’ in a laboratory for biological warfare in Porton Down.
November 2000
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (MAFF) enquires to buy large amounts of ‘burn timber’.
Nov./Dec. 2000
George W. Bush is elected American President despite considerable doubts about his majority. Critics speak of manipulation. The internationally networked animal and environment activists, who are against mass slaughter, have no lobby with Bush. This would be different if Al Gore were president.
January 2001
David Owen ships sheep from Wales to France. On 31 January the tested sheep were found to have foot-and-mouth antibodies.
20 February 2001
Information about the first official FMD case in the UK are contradictory. At first it was said the first case appeared at Heddon-on-the-Wall in Northumberland. The disease supposedly originated at a filthy pig farm. The farm later turned out to be a large, well-organised operation. An official announcement, however, now names a farm in Brentwood, Essex, as the place where FMD originated.
21 February 2001
First official MAFF announcement. The export of cattle, sheep, goats and pigs is officially stopped.
24 February 2001
Official order to cull thousands of animals. Mass burning of culled animals starts.
26 February 2001
Spread of FMD in Wales. 11,000 animals are burned.
1 March 2001
2 confirmed cases of FMD in Scotland and one case in Northern Ireland. There are 31 confirmed cases in England.
4 March 2001
Number of affected farms in Great Britain rises to 53. 45,000 animals culled.
5 March 2001
Cases suspected in France. The export of cloven-hoofed animals is prohibited in France.
10 March 2001
Number of confirmed cases rises to 135. 82,000 animals culled.
13 March 2001
First confirmed FMD cases in Mayenne in the west of France.
17 March 2001
Farmers declare war on the British Government’s mass culling programme.
20 March 2001
The army is brought in to assist with the burning of the culled animals.
21 March 2001
First confirmed cases of FMD in the Netherlands. EU bans exports. Further cases follow.
22 March 2001
First case of FMD in the Republic of Ireland.
25 March 2001
Mass burial pits dug at the Great Orton airfield, near Carlisle.
End of March 2001
British Airways and the Confederation of British Industry warn the British Government and Tony Blair of heavy losses to tourism.
28 March 2001
Campaign by Prime Minister Tony Blair to save tourism with his ‘Open for Business’ message. Sir General Michael Jackson placed in command of culling.
29 March 2001
1972-expertise by biological weapons specialist Professor Martin Hugh-Jones – which had been kept secret – suddenly appears when EU veterinary experts permit emergency vaccinations of 180,000 cattle to prevent the spread of the disease. The study supposedly proves that vaccinations do not contribute to controlling the disease.
2 April 2001
Tony Blair confirms that local and parliamentary elections will be postponed to 7 June. On the same day the Irish will vote on the Nice EU treaty in a referendum.
Early in April 2001
A Chinese restaurant is said to have caused the epidemic through imports of infected animals. This false report had to be withdrawn after unanimous protests by the Chinese community in England.
8 April 2001
An article appears in the Sunday Express: ‘Did a Stolen Virus Poison Our Farms? Test tube taken from Porton Down lab two months before outbreak.’
10 April 2001
EU Agriculture Ministers reject mass vaccinations against FMD.
11 April 2001
21 cases of FMD in the Netherlands.
15 April 2001
Second case of FMD in Northern Ireland.