Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor of Current Concerns, I had heard about this on TV and then last week‘s Sunday Express also had a small piece on it on page 31, entitled ‚Foot and Mouth graves threaten our water.‘ It was written by Paul Mcmullan. It reads like this.

Five mass graves of cattle and sheep culled during the foot and mouth outbreak are being secretly excavated on goverment orders amid fears that ‚leakage‘ could pollute the water supply. In the haste to eradicate the disease, which saw 10 million cattle burned, (at least they were a bit nearer the truth with their figures!!) other potential pollutants, including fertilisers and farm vehicles were buried. Two years on, substances have begun to seep out, ( how would they know this if the vehicles were buried?! ) and Defra has ordered the inspection of all non-carcass burial sites. (This could be just another way of beginning to spread the disease again, if it is still present. ) Amid allegations of a cover-up, teams of diggers arrived this week at two sites in the Midlands. This was the first the villagers in Stoke Prior, near Bromsgrove, knew that something was amiss. ( If they only knew!!) A Defra spokeswoman said, ‹We can confirm five sites around England were earmarked for excavation as part of our continuous assessment of potentially polluting materials being placed in the carcass and non carcass pits.› Non-carcass sites were being inspected, as in ‹a few cases›, potential pollutants may have been disposed of in sensitive locations.!!!!! Defra said the problems arose from engine oil from buried vehicles ‹polluting the water course.!!› National Farmers Union spokesman Russel Griffin said, Defra have not gone out of their way to publicise this and there seems to be an element of secrecy about it.›

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I have since heard that the vehicles in question were taken up to Cumbria, where such terrible destruction of our animals took place last time. Why? It seems to me that the British government are gearing up for another attack on our farm animals. I cannot believe that they could be so utterly wicked as to start it all again. The mentality of the people who are doing this beggars belief.

It was very obvious to anyone with a grain of intelligence that they were going to have another go. Why else would they have kept these ridiculous movement restrictions in force and made it virtually impossible for farmers to attend Agricultural Shows because of them.

You either have FMD, in which case you don›t hold shows at all, or you don›t have it, in which case you don›t need the movement restrictions anyway!! Why can no-one see this except the handful of us who know what they are like and know that they will lie whenever it suits them? In any case it is just a matter of common sense, a commodity which is in very short supply it seems. People still believe the government and the newsreaders on TV, no matter how stupid or preposterous the allegations. If they have polluted the water courses of course, we should all be able to sue the government. That is what would happen to any farmer or member of the public who does this. The government also lied about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and if any are found now, they will most certainly have been planted. However, I think we all know that as well, and did from the start!! I despair of this world now. What has happened to us all that we are like sheep in that most people do just believe anything they are told and never seem to think for themselves? I have never known corruption like it nor have I ever experienced such apathy from the public.

If you can help at all, it may just help to avert another catastrophe but I don›t hold out much hope now. With the British public›s help and belief, we could stop it but without it, we might as well leave Blair to rule over a nation of immigrants, because all the natural born Brits are leaving the country. Most of us no longer want to live in a country which has so betrayed its people. Could you pass this information on to anyone you think may be able to help? Thank you.

Kind regards, Jill Byron, England