Foot & Mouth

[Michael W Blackman]

sounds bizzare - chaotic


----- Original Message -----
From: Rich Warren <rich.warren at BTINTERNET.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:29 AM
Subject: Re: Foot & Mouth


> Well it's pretty bad up here, I work just round the corner from the main
> auction mart in carlisle, and next door to Maff here, it's swarming with
> troops, and they've trebled the size of the maff offices, the pub where
that
> senior Government vet was getting slow handclapped is where I go for
lunch.
> The whole area is on a downer.  Our receptionist is a farmers wife, and
> they're one of the farms infected.
>
> If I go up to my mums which is a bit nearer the countryside you can smell
> the burning sheep :-(
>
> It's dire.
>
> Rich W
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Siegerman" <erics at TELEPRES.COM>
> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 5:30 AM
> Subject: Foot & Mouth
>
>
> > On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:51:34PM -0000, Jill Strobridge wrote:
> > > It's just as well Glastonbury has already been cancelled this year.
> > > My guess is that it would have been very unlikely to go ahead if
> > > that had originally been the intention.   In fact I hope Michael
> > > Eavis's cows are ok!
> >
> > I was just checking the web site.  Glastonbury proper is *just*
> > outside one of the "infected areas" ... for now ... so I suspect
> > you're right.
> >
> > Stonehenge is closed, and it's rather farther from any infected
> > areas.
> >
> > > A show in London will be no risk at all but Devon has major problems
> > > just now.    I don't know if Dave (Hawkwind) will be affected by
> > > this?    Anyone?
> >
> > Honiton's not listed at the moment, but it's less than 10 miles
> > from an infected area.  And of course I have no idea where their
> > place is in relation to the village.
> >
> > Dave, Kris: I don't know whether you folks keep livestock.  If
> > you do, my fingers are crossed!
> >
> >
> > FYI, here's the British Agriculture Ministry's Foot & Mouth "hub"
> > page:
> >         http://www.maff.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/fmd/default.htm
> >
> > Their information on "infected areas" (ie. areas so declared by
> > the Ministry -- they don't use the word "quarantine", but that's
> > pretty much the gist of it):
> >         http://www.maff.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/fmd/areas.htm
> >
> > --
> >
> > |  | /\
> > |-_|/  >   Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.        erics at telepres.com
> > |  |  /
> > With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not
> > necessarily a good idea.
> >         - RFC 1925 (quoting an unnamed source)
> >