The slaughter policy adopted by the brutish government, and by some other european countries, is draconian but it is not new. This approach to containing the disease goes back to the beginning of the century and derives from measures taken by wealthy, landowning pharmers to protect their material interests, “In the old days, farmers had it tough. There were 870,000 outbreaks of foot and mouth in Europe in the early 1850s, and farmers fought to control them by movement restrictions and temporary market closures. In Britain it was endemic and landowners lived with the bane. But by the beginning of the 20th century, there was a growing lobby of wealthy farmers, with pedigree stock, who persuaded the government to take more drastic action. They wanted the disease eradicated to protect the productivity of their herds.” [1] ; “Abigail woods ­ a vet who is researching the history of foot and mouth at Manchester University, financed by the Wellcome Trust ­ adds that it was Britain, too, that pioneered the zero tolerance policy to foot and mouth, originally to protect a few wealthy stockbreeders, and was the first country to ban imports from countries with the disease.” [2]

The f&m virus is not lethal to Animals (or oomans) but it temporarily undermines their health. Only rarely do Animals die - mostly the young, “The tiny virus .. is in the same family as those causing the common cold. It can be spread by direct or indirect contact with infected animals; by people exposed to the virus who develop no symptoms but who harbour and spread it; by contaminated shoes, clothing, vehicles, farm implements, meat, milk and garbage, and by air. Weather permitting, the virus can travel many miles. The virus survives refrigeration and freezing and can live for up to a month in the general environment, although heat, sunlight, disinfectants and high acid and alkaline conditions can inactivate it. The disease is endemic in parts of Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America, where periodic outbreaks sometimes have severe economic consequences. The British Agriculture Ministry said that in the last 12 months, outbreaks have occurred in Bhutan, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Georgia, Greece, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Malawi, Malaysia, Mongolia, Namibia, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Uruguay and Zambia. The virus incubates for two days to more than two weeks before an animal begins to show signs of the disease, which causes different but related symptoms in susceptible animals. Cattle develop fever and virus-filled blisters in their mouths, lose their appetites, lose weight and produce less milk. Pigs develop severe foot lesions that make it impossible for them to walk. In sheep and goats, foot lesions are less obvious and may go unrecognized, allowing them to spread the infection. In all species, adult animals typically recover within two weeks, but death rates among young animals can be high. Vaccinated cattle that acquire the virus may harbour infectious virus in their mouths and throats for up to 30 months, and vaccinated sheep can become similar viral vectors for nine months.” [4] ; “To many farmers who have lived without foot and mouth for decades, such suggestions (that f&m disease is just a common cold) will seem like heresy. "There is a view that foot and mouth is no more of a problem for livestock than a cold for humans," said Peter Rudman of the NFU. "The truth is, while adult animals generally recover, mortality among young stock can be high."” [5]

One of the characteristics of this disease that enables it to spread is that it incubates for a long while, erupts, then declines, but does not necessarily disappear, “A new problem is the possibility that a small number of sheep become carriers. These are animals that have the disease and get better without the farmer noticing. These sheep are not normally infectious but if they are put in a stressful situation, for example loaded in a lorry and carried long distances, then they could pass on the disease. Sheep can be carriers for up to nine weeks after recovering from the infection.” [6] F&m is the most infectious disease amongst Animals.

Charles clover states the strain of the f&m ravaging brutland came from india, “First identified in India in 1990, it has penetrated countries which have not suffered an outbreak for decades. In South Africa, the disease was traced to food waste offloaded illegally from an Asian boat in Durban harbour and fed as pig swill. In Japan, which had not recorded an outbreak of the disease since 1908, the suspect was hay and silage from China contaminated with faeces, urine or saliva. In South Korea, dust storms from China were suspected.” [7] ;“Though the exact source was still a mystery, Dr Kitching's team established earlier this week that the virus is a strain that originated in India, and has been seen in South Korea and Japan in the past year. "The next question, once we've established when it got to the farm, is how it got there," said Dr Donaldson. "Other incidents have been attributed to garbage from ships being given to pigs uncooked." The outbreak last year of swine fever, also an Asian strain, came from a sandwich thrown to a pig on a farm.” [8]

F&m does not pose a health threat to oomans. It is theoretically possible for oomans to contract the disease but they would not die because of it. According to geoffrey lean, “Foot and mouth disease only very rarely affects people, and even then only raises a slight temperature and a few blisters.” [9]

The maffia believe the disease started on a particular pharm when a pharmer fed swill from local schools to his Animals, “Ministry investigators will want to go back beyond the catering waste which was fed as pig swill at Bobby Waugh's Burnside Farm at Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland - the primary source of the foot and mouth outbreak - to the ingredients of the food that went into it.” [10] ; “On Burnside Farm at Heddon-on-the Wall, Northumberland, last week, farmer Bobby Waugh was defiant. "I am not the villain of the piece," he protested after an outbreak of foot and mouth among his pigs was identified as the likely source of the epidemic.He had fed his pigs on swill from local schools and numerous complaints had been made about conditions on his farm, but the question of how the infection arrived there remained unresolved.” [11]

The disease could have entered the country with legally imported food for public sale. After the food had been eaten, it could have been used as swill for Pigs - still carrying the disease, “This weekend officials confirmed that it is allowing imports from four countries which have had outbreaks in the past year; 300 suspected cases were reported in Argentina last week and Brazil, Uruguay and Namibia have also had cases recently. Foot and mouth is endemic in parts of South Africa; an outbreak was confirmed last September, but Britain did not ban imports until January 5.” [12] Only a week or so before the outbreak of pharmers’ subsidy disease the oxford mail carried an article about a pharmer who wanted brookes university to provide him with swill.

The disease could have entered the country as legally imported food for private consumption, “But senior officials at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Maff) told The Independent on Sunday there was "no doubt" that it had come to Britain with uncooked meat from abroad. Among the possible causes being investigated by Maff scientists are sausages brought into the country by a traveller, or food discarded from a container ship docking in an English port.” [13] Many travellers could have brought back meat products from countries which are banned from exporting meat products to brutland because of f&m disease. People often bring back speciality food with them from other countries, “Travellers are only allowed to bring in a maximum of 1kg of meat, which must be checked. In reality, baggage is rarely scrutinised and during one operation last September, customs and Maff officials discovered passengers on a flight from Ghana were carrying 1,400kg of meat. Even a memo from the chief veterinary officer in 1936 warns: "So long as meat is imported from infected countries, foot and mouth is a risk."” [14]

The disease could have been in the food waste which ships dump onto docks and which is then converted into Pigswill, “Maff is not yet clear how foot-and-mouth arrived at Burnside Farm in Northumberland where the first outbreak is thought to have taken place ­ but pigs there were fed on swill, which is often made from waste thrown out by humans. Foot-and-mouth is one of the world's most contagious diseases. Viruses on an infected piece of meat could easily survive being thrown from a ship's galley into a rubbish container, processed as swill, sold to a farm and poured into a pig trough.” [15] ; “Scientists suspect foot-and-mouth disease reached Britain through food discarded from a docking container ship and fed to pigs up to a fortnight ago. "The next question, once we've established when it got to the farm, is how it got there," said Dr Donaldson. "Other incidents have been attributed to garbage from ships being given to pigs uncooked." The outbreak last year of swine fever, also an Asian strain, came from a sandwich thrown to a pig on a farm.” [16] It could even have been dropped from an aeroplane when it dumps toilet waste.

Huge numbers of exotic Animals are being illegally imported into this country and any of them could be carriers of the disease especially since many might have been stored on pharms prior to their exportation into this country.

It is possible that some slave Animals could have been imported illegally. Pharmers are a law unto themselves and basically import-export whatever they want. In 1999 the labour government was forced to act against pharmers illegally exporting Animals.

The disease could have been imported via the vast quantities of feedstuff that are imported into brutland from around the world. During the f&m outbreak the importation of cadavers is banned but it is still legal to import feedstock from countries with f&m.

There are also theories that the infection could have arrived in brutland on the wind.

Many commentators and pharmers believe the disease was deliberately imported into brutland by the ALF in order to wreck the brutish Animal terrorism industry.

After the anthrax attacks in america during october 2001, many of the commentators and pharmers who believed Alf was responsible for importing the disease into brutland then started to blame osama bin laden and saddam hussein.

Ben gill of the national pharmers' union chairman, said: "We don't know how the infection got into the country, but it does look a little peculiar when we have had two outbreaks ­ one of classical swine fever, one of foot-and-mouth disease ­ over the past few months, both of them Asian types. One can't help speculating that there is some sort of coincidence with the freeing of world trade that has been continually increasing over the past decade."” [17]

Some commentators argue that the culling policy makes economic sense because firstly, if an Animal gets the disease the whole country loses its ‘f&m free’ status which incurs a financial penalty. Without this competitive edge over other countries it would be much more difficult to export cadavers. And, secondly, Animals are less productive after contracting the disease, “Instead, it is an economic disease. When animals are sick they produce less milk, and put on less meat. MAFF asserts that cows also milk less well when they recover, though late last week could produce no scientific evidence to prove it.” [18]

The mass cull is not an economic response to f&m disease. The important economic point here is that if pharmers weren’t subsidized up to the hilt they wouldn’t dare murder their Animals because they’d lose their only source of income. Many couldn’t afford to slaughter their Animals at their own expense and then buy healthy ones. Pharmers support this sickeningly depraved, exterminist policy solely because the government (i.e. pharmers’ representatives in parliament) pays for the massive costs of the slaughter and the replacement of slaughtered Animals. The mass slaughter of Animals with f&m is possible only because the government re-imburses pharmers’ costs.

Most Animals recover from f&m disease. Usually, only a very small proportion of the youngest and weakest Animals die of the disease. According to geoffrey lean, “Foot and mouth disease .. doesn't even kill animals. Vets say that it is no more serious for animals than a bad cold for humans.” [19] Pharmers supported the mass cull not because their slave Animals were suffering or in pain, nor because these Animals would die in agony from a lethal disease, but because taxpayers were being fleeced to meet the costs of the slaughter - even though large numbers of taxpayers are vegans or vegetarians opposed to eating meat.

Nothing could reveal the extent to which pharmers regard mcblair as a soft touch for more and more subsidies than that the day after the prime minister announced a general election, a demonstration was held outside downing street by the tourist industry, which has been decimated by the pharming industry, demanding a staggering £12 billion in compensation. When ordinary workers have demanded wage increases costing a couple of million pounds the labour government has hit the roof denouncing them as being greedy and threatening that such subsidies would topple the country’s economy into an inflationary spiral. And yet the tourist industry measures itself by the pharming industry. It has spent the last four years watching their pharming colleagues pushing up their subsides from a measly £3 billion a year to anywhere between £6billion to £10billion a year, so obviously this is the ball park they were aiming at. If, a few years ago, people had been told that in the near future a group would be organizing a demonstration demanding £12 billion in subsidies from the government, the vast majority would have regarded the demonstrators as being clinically insane. And yet so lavish have mcblair’s pharming subsidies been this is now regarded as being politically feasible.

Pharmers are industrial relics producing a product that increasing numbers of people don’t want to eat. Over the last three decades meat consumption has dropped by 50%. Basically people don’t want to eat a rotting, fattening, bse-infected, disease riddled, pesticide soaked, hormonally-boosted, salt encrusted, drug-infested, shit-stained, product dressed up as meat.

The brutish livestock industry occupies 50% of the land area of the u.k. and a substantial part of the 25% of the land used to grow crops ends up producing feed for Animals. Despite the fact that the country has one of the biggest, and most intensive, livestock industries in the world, (albeit on one of the world’s smaller islands) it cannot make a profit, “It is almost impossible for a farmer to make a living producing beef in this country.” [20] It is kept afloat solely by guargantuan subsidies around £6 billion a year. How is it possible the brutish livestock industry to receive such vast subsidies and yet still not make a profit? The overbloated size of the pharming industry is due to the gargantuan, obscenely overbloated, subsidies given by successive governments.

The illusion of cheap meat and dairy products can be preserved only through gargantuan subsidies, “"Cheap" meat and dairy products are not cheap at all. The prices in the supermarkets may be higher but consumers spend only a fifth of their income on food today compared with a third a couple of generations ago. But cheap meat and dairy products look a shade more expensive if the cost of bse, the billions of pounds in compensation to pharmers, cost of the young lives lost to variant CJD, the f&m disease, etc, are taken into account. The social costs of the Animal slavery industry are considerable. The national audit office reckons that diseases associated with obesity cost the NHS £500m a year and the economy as a whole, in lost output, £2 billion. Add that to the cost of cheap food.” [21] Meat products are also cheap because there are huge numbers of people who refuse to eat meat and yet have to finance those who enjoy sucking blood and eating cadavers.

Ever since mcblair got into power, the labour government imposed strict controls over government spending. It stated repeatedly that it was impossible to increase government spending without triggering off an economic crisis. And yet during the f&m crisis the government was throwing money at this disease as if it grew on Trees. It is as if this vast sum of money doesn’t have the slightest impact on the public sector borrowing requirement, interest rates, inflation or economic growth. Similarly, it is almost as if pharmers are above politics in that they can be given mountainous subsidies without the slightest political discussion as to whether they deserve such money. But as soon as the government spends £10 million on miners, the media is outraged, and the whole country is up in arms about inflation and the stability of the economy. The fact that there have been no protests from livestock consumers about the vast f&m subsidies they are paying is proof that the landowning elite’s domestication campaign to transform oomans into livestock has succeeded.

There is little doubt that the vast subsidies being paid to brutish pharmers are depriving teachers, schools, universities, nurses, doctors, hospitals, care workers, pensioners, and public transport, etc, of the funds needed to maintain a civilized society.

“In europe’s third major outbreak since 1990, classical swine fever (csf) swept the dutch pig belt last year. Nearly six million pigs died - most of them killed not by the virus, but by the farmers themselves. The epidemic cost the netherlands £400 million. Three years earlier, germany had to fork out over £600 million when csf hit its dense pig region. And csf is now raging in the pig country of northern spain. Csf is not europe’s only animal plague. Of the 15 serious diseases that must be reported to world monitoring authorities, nine have broken out since 1984. Six were major epidemics. To cut production costs, pigs are born on one farm, weaned on another and fattened on yet another. In these specialized farms, thousands of animals from different places are crammed together. In the u.s. such mega-units have to be surrounded by a 30 kilometre pig-free zone to curb the spread of disease, but no such safety zone is required in europe.” [22]

“Hundreds of thousands of pigs are being slaughtered to stamp out a virus which has killed 67 people. Scientists fear that a new strain of encephalitis - brain fever - spread by fruit bats has passed to humans through the pig population.” [23]

There is little doubt slave Animal diseases are going to erupt in brutland again because it is impossible to run an intensive Animal industry alongside a global, free market, economy. The country’s open door policy allows the free movement of people and Animals. More and more people are going abroad (twenty five million last each year); many are bringing back speciality foods with them. More and more people are flooding into the country illegally. More and more livestock Animals are being illegally imported - some of which may have diseases. More and more exotic forms of Wildlife are being illegally imported into the country - some of which may have diseases. More and more food is being imported. The number of barriers preventing the spread of diseases around the world are being reduced dramatically. There is a huge flood of potential infectivity moving rapidly around the world. This is the inevitable outcome of creating a global village. Unless the brutish government can stop the illegal importation of food, Wildlife, and slave Animals, etc, they stand little chance of stopping diseases from erupting in brutland.

The reason that such obscene levels of subsidy are given to the pharming industry is because there is a grossly disproportionate number of pharmers in parliament. The house of lords is dominated by the landowning pharming aristocracy. The house of commons is no different. Politician-pharmers enjoy a career in the house of commons before they are put out to graze in the lords. Pharmers represent 1% of the population and yet there are far more pharmers in parliament than any other social group. They corruptly use the political system to line their own pockets i.e. providing their disease ridden industry with subsidies. The country’s politicians are basically stealing taxpayers’ money from the country’s coffers to rescue themselves and their industry from the disasters which they keep creating. The only reason these huge numbers of pharming politicians are not convicted of the theft of public money is because they pass laws which make it legal to give themselves vast amounts of money. Pharmers domination of parliament enabled them to realize they could make vastly more money from milking parliament for subsidies than they ever could from selling their dodgy products. Bse, the autumn 2000 floods, and f&m disease, are the direct and immediate products of a corrupt and degenerate political system.

The reason for the f&m disaster occurring in brutland is not because of an accident or a bit of bad luck but because this country’s pharmers know they can get away with anything as a result of their control of the country’s political system. The english disease is the product of the corrupt carcass of the brutish political system in which the landowning pharming aristocracy have a veto over all political policies. This veto locks the country into a barbaric medieval primitivism e.g. where bloodsports are given protection against the wishes of the vast majority of people in this country.

The media supported pharmers in the f&m epidemic (as they did during the bse epidemic and the fuel tax insurrection) and bestowed upon them enormous amounts of sympathy. It portrayed them as innocent victims of a terrible tragedy. They may have been the innocent victims of one disease but when they’ve been afflicted by four diseases suspicions have to be raised. Is it really feasible that pharmers are the accidental victims of a succession of disease outbreaks such as salmonella, swine fever, bse, and f&m diseases? The media plugged the propaganda that pharmers:

Virtually everyone in society believes the government’s handling of the f&m crisis was acceptable - what they objected to was that the government wasn’t carrying out the slaughter policy efficiently enough. Despite all the disasters pharmers have provoked over the last few years, people continue to be willing to subsidize them. There is hardly a whisper of criticism about the scale of the subsidies being given to pharmers or what pharmers are doing with the subsidies, “Over the past 35 years i have written about many scandals and examples of inexcusable barbarism. For sheer evil, nothing matches what is now going on in the uk. Our government is using huntsmen and soldiers to slaughter hundreds of thousands of healthy sheep to preserve farmers’ profits. Britons - supposedly animal lovers - simply do not seem to care. Citizens who would riot about the price of petrol do not seem concerned. Have you heard one squeak of protest from britain’s wealthy animal rights and welfare organizations?” [24] Pharmers’ domestication of brutish consumer livestock is so intense, the livestock will continue to finance further pharming disasters and, eventually, the wrecking of the Earth’s life support system. The domestication process is so intense it has left the livestock in an almost catatonic state.

The bse ideology promoted by the maffia and the national pharmers union is based on two absurdities. Firstly, in 1989 the maffia argued that bse existed solely in specified bovine offals. This meant it did not exist in Cattle blood and therefore not in Cattle meat. This bizarre explanation enabled the government to ban the sale of Cattle offals but not bseef. The mcblair government was eventually forced to accept that bse-cjd in oomans was present in oomans’ blood and this required the cleaning of medical and dentistry equipment. This change over bse-cjd put the maffia in the absurd position of arguing that bse exists only in specified Cattle offals but in the blood of oomans. Secondly, at the end of the 1990s a number of scientists declared that bse in Sheep is all pervasive - meaning that it exists in Lambs’ blood and thus Lamb meat. This put the maffia in the even more absurd position of believing that bse does not exist in Cattle blood (and thus nor in meat) but that it does exist in the blood of oomans (and thus ooman meat - if you’re partial) and Sheep (and thus meat).

For the first couple of weeks after the start of the epidemic, the maffia insisted f&m was being spread by Animal to Animal contact - usually at markets and that it was easy tracing infected Sheep. However, their confidence in the belief that the physical contact theory became questionable since there was no way of tracing all the Animals that had been at livestock markets.

Some commentators believed the disease was spread on the wind, “This weekend, the number of cases of foot and mouth reached 139, and chief vet Jim Scudamore admitted the scale of the epidemic had come as a shock. It was hoped that the ban on moving livestock would have helped win the battle against the virus, but the disease is being spread by wind.” [25] The maffia denied this.

It is possible the winter 2001 floods could have spread the disease. The disease could have been in food that had been dumped into rubbish bins or onto rubbish tips which were then flooded. This could have helped to spread the disease around large areas of the country.

The disease could have spread as a result of the vast numbers of slaughtered Animals that were left to rot in fields and barns until they were disposed of on a funeral pyres. Some of the Animals were not burnt for days even a week later. Wildlife could have eaten the carcasses and transferred the diseases. And yet, bbc1 early evening news 11.3.2001 reported that “Cattle aren’t contagious once they’re dead”.

Some believe the disease could have been spread by smoke from funeral pyres.

Although the government closed down large parts of the countryside, many people went about their daily business which took them through infected areas. Pharmers use small country roads when moving their Animals from field to field and these roads were also used by members of the general public. In other countries people were virtually compelled to stay on their land but this did not happen in brutland so people going about their ordinary business could have helped to spread the disease.

A few weeks into the disease the government allowed many pharmers not affected by f&m disease to transport their slave Animals to abattoirs for ooman consumption. Some of these Animals could have been incubating the disease and could have helped to spread the disease.

Some of the lorries carrying murdered Animals were not sealed, “Farmers in unaffected foot and mouth counties in and close to north Wales - Caernarfon, Denbighshire, Flint and Cheshire - claim unsealed lorries are carrying dead infected cattle on the A55 for rendering at Widnes, on Merseyside.” [26]

Various propositions have been put forward as regards who might be responsible for spreading f&m.

“The prime suspect is infected meat from the far east, served in a chinese restaurant and then allegedly carried as leftovers in swill to a pig farm at heddon on the wall in tyne and wear.” [27] The mirror also reported that the meat came from the far east.

The pharming industry blamed the maffia for the f&m disease.

The pharming industry also blamed the Animal rights movement.

The pharming industry is always highly productive when it comes to blaming somebody else, “The National Farmers' Union's chairman, Ben Gill, said: "We don't know how the infection got into the country, but it does look a little peculiar when we have had two outbreaks ­ one of classical swine fever, one of foot-and-mouth disease ­ over the past few months, both of them Asian types. One can't help speculating that there is some sort of coincidence with the freeing of world trade that has been continually increasing over the past decade."” [28]

The pharming industry also blamed the bbc for the f&m disaster.

Green anarchist published an article exploring the possibility that the disease was created by a conspiracy between the european union and euro-phile elements within the maffia, “The intention is clear - to make people throughout europe dependent on european control of the food supply.” [29] The contention is that the european community were able to spread the disease by forcing brutland to close down the country’s network of local abattoirs. The epidemic distracted attention from electoral efforts to save brutish sovereignty. Green anarchist speculates, along with the ‘ecologist’ magazine and william hague, that, “The real issue, which should have been dominating the (2001 general) election, the abolition of the pound, was knocked right off the agenda.” [30] In other words, eurocrats were guilty of silencing extreme right wing, pharmer-loving, meat-eating, ultra-patriotic, eurosceptics trying to save her majesty’s mug on the country’s currency, “The people most likely to shout about the abolition of the pound are the euro-sceptic right, the uk independence party, and countryside alliance, farmers, and rural tories. With foot and mouth, these people would be deflected. .. the foot and mouth outbreak proved a master-stroke by somebody to electorally undermine the countryside alliance/conservative anti-europeans.” [31] Most radicals would say yessiree to that. To lend credence to the view that eurocrats were forcing right wing tory extremists back into their subsidized luxury pharmyard bunkers, the author provides an earlier example of eurocrats’ dastardliness, “Gordon foxley was the director of ammunition procurement at the ministry of defence. In october 1993 he was found guilty of corruption. He accepted £1.5 million in bribes (from a fiat subsidiary, and two other european companies). As a result of his corruption, contracts .. went to these companies. The royal ordnance fuse factory at blackburn closed, losing at least 862 jobs.” [32] Green anarchist believes it is possible that foxley-ite elements within the maffia spread f&m as part of what it regards as “the european totalitarian agenda”, “After studying europe, the idea of uk officials inside acting on behalf of europe ought to be a favourite thesis by now.” [33] Green anarchist concludes this scenario by suggesting that, “Europe is also responsible for the fact that uk farmers feel forced to export to europe in order to survive economically.” [34] It ought to be pointed out that brutish pharmers export their disease ridden shit not because they are compelled to do so by eurocrats but because eurocrats provide them with subsidies to do so.

It is possible that globe trotting greens could have brought the disease back from their winter vacations around the world. Every year, many of the goldsmith family fly south for the winter. Thankfully the goldsmiths’ couldn’t have brought back the disease from their ranch in mexico because mexico doesn’t have the disease but it could have come from their ranch in kenya. Perhaps it might have happened when one of them popped back to brutland to pay off their organic milk bill. The ‘live locally’ goldsmiths still find it impossible to live on the Earth’s northern continents during the winter because of the inclement weather.

The maffia could have triggered off f&m in order to cover up the spread of bse in Sheep and the spread of bse and bse-cjd around europe. After years of denouncing the idea that Sheep were infected by bse even though many scientists believed it was highly likely, in autumn 2000 the government admitted for the first time that bse could be present in Sheep and that drastic culls might be needed to eradicate this source of the disease. [35] If the slaughter of these Animals had to be carried out, it is likely the public would be more sympathetic if it was done because Animals had f&m disease rather than bse-cjd. If the maffia stated that Sheep were infected with bse the public would have been so alarmed it would once again affect have damaged bseef sales. By the end of 2000 the bse and bse-cjd epidemics had at long last erupted in many european countries which, for the last 15 years, had been pretending they were unaffected. The media in brutland was increasingly having to report on these events which would invariably have had a negative effect on sales of bseef in brutland. So, what better way of making the bse in Sheep issue redundant and blocking out news about the spread of bse in europe than by spreading f&m? If this was the case then, as it turns out, pharmers have been highly successful. Over the last six months, the media has rarely mentioned the bse in Sheep issue or europe’s panic over the spread of bse.

Green anarchist blames eurocrats and foxley-ite members within the maffia for triggering off the f&m disease but, in any detective story, we are always told to look for the beneficiaries of any crime. And it is quite clear that the biggest beneficiaries of the f&m crime was pharmers. There is a much stronger case for arguing that pharmers/nfu/maffia deliberately triggered f&m in order to obtain lavish compensation payments. The f&m epidemic was started by a pharmer. It was started as a result of a feeding practice which the maffia should have criminalized years ago - the use of swill. It was accidentally spread by pharmers engaged in mass criminality - defrauding welfare benefit payments from the european community. And it persisted because more and more pharmers couldn’t resist the luxurious compensation available for diseased Animals. The disease increasingly became a scam by pharmers seeking welfare benefit subsidies. Such a statement cannot be regarded as scandalous: if the government offers far more subsidies to pharmers with the disease than to pharmers without it then how could it possibly be surprising that pharmers kept spreading the disease around the country?

It is highly doubtful that there was any f&m conspiracy. What has been argued above is that if there was a conspiracy then the group most likely to have carried it out, because it had the most to benefit, was pharmers. The idea that there was any sort of conspiracy behind the f&m epidemic is difficult to envisage for the simple reason that the epidemic is just the latest in a long trend of self-inflicted pharming disasters. First, in the late 1980s, it was salmonella in eggs; then bse; then bse-cjd; e-coli; swine fever, and then the autumn 2000 floods. Disasters amongst such an incompetent bunch of Animal murdering, Earth wreckers is about as surprising as a disaster at st trinians. The state of many pharms had declined markedly over the last few years because large numbers of pharmers have been spending substantial amounts of time on flying picket duty all over the country. The f&m disaster was a disaster waiting to happen. It was nigh on inevitable. It is not surprising that pharmers are blaming everyone else for the disease because this is exactly what they do everytime their industry goes wrong. These rural terrorists are mentally incapable of admitting they have any responsibility for any wrong doing.

In the early days of the f&m outbreak every single pharmer interviewed on television blamed the spread of the disease on the closure of local abattoirs and the opening of a much smaller number of centralized abattoirs. This meant that Animals were having to be transported longer distances before being murdered. It was remarkable that pharmers and their leaders always blamed the spread of the disease on the closure of local abattoirs and demanded the reopening of these abattoirs. It was as if they had all been trained on what to say by press releases from a national pharming organization - such as the ecologist magazine.

“The new crisis facing farmers must come as something of a relief to the government. The potentially embarrassing Countryside March is delayed, and the small farmers who have been subjected for years to endless political sabotage look set to join the world's lost species list. In other words, new Labour's loudest foe is defeated, and because foot and mouth is nothing new, they can't be blamed. But the truth is they can, and must be blamed along with their close buddies, the supermarkets, which have price-fixed small farmers into bankruptcy. It was the EU, with full new Labour support, that outlawed small abattoirs by imposing regulations that no medium-sized business could possibly handle. And while they enlisted the god of "hygiene" to justify the red tape, it was known at the time of the E.coli outbreak that triggered the rulings that the meat responsible was prepared by an industrial plant that already complied with EU hygiene rules. That is why animals are now carried hundreds of miles from field to slaughter, and why the spread of disease is all the more inevitable.” [36]

.. “animals intended for our table are still being fed bits of other creatures despite the bse disaster. Feeding animal residues to herbivorous creatures is against nature. And now nature is taking a terrible revenge. They have allowed 800 local slaughterhouses to be shut because of e.u. regulations. Why not set up a chain of local slaughterhouses, and if the eu objects tell them to stuff it.” [37]

“However the disease arrived, it was subsequently trailed across the country by transporting animals unacceptable distances for slaughter - all because of “industrialized” farming. (Strange that there is no mention here of the vast numbers of Animals being traded across the country and vast numbers of Animals being exported for slaughter - it had to be Animal transports in this country that causes the problems!). Some 33.5 million pigs, cattle and sheep are involved in this absurdity every year, and all the government does is close down yet more slaughterhouses, so making the situation worse. Even more unacceptably, some cattle - herd animals - are mixed with animals from other herds during their journeys, causing them considerable distress. This situation has been created by nonsensical european regulations that have seen the closure of 800 local slaughter houses in the past 10 years. (Actually, it was the discovery as a result of the bse crisis that these local slaughterhouses were in such an appalling unhygienic state and so badly run that they couldn’t be trusted to carry out the government’s regulations for removing offal. What a short memory this pharmer has). Once environmental health officers could monitor slaughterhouses; now vets have to be permanently on duty to monitor slaughterhouses that have been upgraded to ridiculous and expensive levels far beyond simple hygiene and cleanliness. (in other words they have been brought up to the highest european standards. It is exactly this contempt for high standards of hygiene that is basically behind the spread of the diseases in this country). Farm livestock should not be faced with the stress of travelling long distances - they should be killed locally and the carcasses then transported. The possibility of spreading any disease - swine fever, or foot and moth disease - is then minimized.” [38]

.. “the possible european origin of the (f&m) outbreak. Europe is responsible for the increased transportation of Animals about britain, because of the forced closure of many british abattoirs due to the imposition of european regulations.” [39]

Oxfordshire green mep caroline lucas complained about the closure of locally based abattoirs, “This trend must be reversed so that animals can be slaughtered close to the farms on which they are reared.” [40] Local politics means local abattoirs!!

There are various reasons why the scale of the f&m epidemic had little to do with the extra journies necessitated by the abolition of local extermination and concentration camps and the creation of centralized abattoirs.

Before outlining the reasons for the extra journeys, it ought to be pointed out that the reason the european community forced the closure of brutish abattoirs was because they were some of the most appallingly unhygienic hell holes ever seen in a so-called modern civilized society. For generations this country saw nothing wrong with running slaughterhouses which were more unhygienic than public lavatories. The problems started with slave Animals grazing on pastureland. These Animals often end up being covered in mud. After they are loaded onto lorries they could be couped up for anything between 2-48 hours. Throughout the journey the Animals on the bottom tier are drenched in urine and excrement from those above. The longer and more stressful the journey, the worse their condition when they arrive at the extermination camps - they are not given a good wash and blow down before being shot, having their throats slit, and being dismembered. What added to the appallingly unhygienic conditions in local abattoirs was that workers routinely ignored the health and safety laws. Workers were paid piece rates which meant they had no time to obey government regulations - except, of course, when health inspectors were around, “A public health report on the first cluster of (ooman) deaths from the disease (bse-cjd) highlighted abattoir and butchery practices legal in the 1980s, but likely to cause the human form of bse. In cattle, the danger areas (of bse) are the brain and spinal cord. But during slaughter at smaller abattoirs, an insertion was made into the cow’s brain to ensure it did not kick out. Infected material could leak elsewhere. Animals were then wiped down not hosed.” [41] As a consequence, "The guardian first disclosed in march 1989 that only one brutish abattoir in 10 held an e.c. hygiene export certificate." [42]

One way of showing that the longer journies necessitated by centralized abattoirs were not the cause of the epidemic is by taking a quick look at the journies made by the average slave Animal.

Many pharmers rear their own Animals but many also buy them from markets. Animals are transported from a pharm to a market and are then bought by another pharmer and transported to a new pharm. Sometimes a slave Animal may have to be driven to a number of markets before being sold.

Many pharmers constantly move their Animals all over a region in order to use any fresh pastureland that might be available. Sometimes Animals are transported 20-100 miles to enjoy fresh pasture. This was one of the most surprising discoveries about the Sheep industry during the f&m epidemic - that so many pharmers graze their Sheep on temporary pastureland, “Around 500,000 uninfected animals are stranded in infected areas due to restrictions on movement. But many are now suffering because of the restrictions. Some lambing ewes cannot be moved to sheds and their young are dying in the fields.” [43]

Some pharmers send their Animals to special fattening units before sending them to extermination camps.

Many small pharmers send their Animals to holding centres i.e. places where hauliers collect Animals for transport to concentration camps.

Some of the people who buy slaves at Animal markets aren’t pharmers but Animal dealers who buy and sell Animals like shares on the stock exchange. These Animals are the ones most likely to be moved around the most before being sold.

Pharmers move their slave Animals around the country because of bed and breakfasting activities to defraud the european community of additional subsidies.

"The importation and exportation of animals to and from the UK runs into the tens of millions." [44] ; "1991 UK live exports were up a staggering 30% on 1990 to 1,186,702. There was a 15% increase in Calf exports to holland and france for veal production."; "773,502 lambs and sheep and 399,599 calves were exported in 1991 from the UK." [45]

There are only a few cases where Animals have to endure only one journey and this is where Animals are reared solely on one pharm before being taken directly to the slaughterhouse. This occurs most often in the system introduced by major supermarkets, “The supermarkets are in the practice of buying animals straight off the farm and trucking them directly to the slaughterhouse. Before the supermarkets, farmers would drive their animals to market, have them mingle in pens with animals from other farms, and, if they couldn't sell them at an attractive price, drive them back home, with whatever bugs they had happened to pick up.” [46]

It can be seen from the previous sections that the journies made to concentration camps were only a small proportion of the journies made by the average slave Animal. By far and away the lengthiest and greatest number of journies that Animals had to endure were the result of pharmers’ ‘bed and breakfasting’ activities to defraud the european community of subsidies. It should not be forgotten that none of the illegal journies would have been included in official estimates of the distances travelled by pharm Animals. [47] It is nonsense for pharmers to blame the f&m epidemic on the creation of centralized abattoirs.

The guardian, home of the organic pharming, and the organic food, brigades highlighted pharmers’ criticisms about the increasing distance that Animals have to travel to be slaughtered. However, the actual increase isn’t that substantial; “Journeys of 200-400 miles to slaughter are not unusual for animals today. The average journey to abattoir has been estimated at 100 miles.” [48] It has been argued that, “Between 1978 and 1998, the distance food was transported increased by 50%.” [49] This figure is not relevant to considerations about the distances travelled by Animals. It is primarily a measure of the distances travelled by processed food from manufacture to retail stores to consumers.

The pharming industry blamed everyone else for the f&m epidemic and one of the easiest excuses was the absence of local abattoirs. The increase in the distance travelled by Animals being slaughtered in centralized abattoirs rather than a local abattoir is just a fraction of the total distance travelled by the average slave Animal throughout their brief lifetime. The european community was responsible for this tiny increase in the distance travelled but, the benefits of centralized abattoirs far outweigh this negative factor. Overall, rather than being condemned for what it has done, the european community ought to be applauded for abolishing the hell holes that greens’ call local abattoirs.

The reasons why the centralization of concentration camps in brutland were not responsible for the f&m epidemic have been highlighted above. The reason the european community was not to blame for the f&m epidemic is because pharmers were the culprits. There are a number of reasons why pharmers were responsible for bringing this disaster upon themselves.

By far and away the biggest contribution that pharmers made to spreading the epidemic was their ‘bed and breakfasting’ activities whereby pharmers moved Sheep around the country in order to obtain bigger european community subsidies. It might be argued that pharmers are good, decent, honest citizens who wouldn’t possible be engaged in criminal activities but the fact is that pharmers had been engaged in mass criminality during the bse epidemic. [50]

The second main contribution that pharmers made to spreading the epidemic was their exploitation of the government’s relaxation on the movement of Animals. Once this relaxation had been permitted, pharmers took advantage of the situation and immediately started moving their Animals without the necessary licenses, “Farmers have been criticised for abusing the relaxed regulations which allow animals from supposedly non-infected areas to be transported to abattoirs to be killed and sold for meat for human consumption. Jim Scudamore, the chief vet, said he was alarmed that farmers were taking animals which had not been licensed for slaughter. "There are worrying reports of abuse of this system, including farmers turning up at abattoirs which have not been expecting the consignment or with more animals than had been licensed," he said.” [54] ; “A downing street aide said there was evidence that some farmers were breaking the strict ban on moving animals. “There have been some prosecutions, that is a fact.”” [55]

Pharmers’ third contribution to the epidemic was the massive subsidies on offer for diseased Animals. The number of subsidies on offer to pharmers was considerable and the sums involved were substantial - running into billions of pounds. Most of the pharmers whose Animals were free of f&m but were subject to movement restrictions, were financially better off having the disease than not having it. The financial incentives for pharmers to infect their herds and recover their losses were staggering. [56]

The epidemic is Sheep pharmers’ fault for refusing to adopt the Sheep passport system because they knew this would halt their criminal rip-off of european subsidies. The absence of such a scheme meant that the maffia couldn’t trace the Animals suspected of having the disease, “Maff officials failed to implement a European directive on tagging sheep and goats which could have made it easier to track animals infected with f&m, it emerged last night, writes Nick Fielding.” [59]

Some pharmers were so frightened of their Animals getting the disease they moved them from infected areas to non-infected areas in order to claim non-infected status and thus sell their Animals into the food chain - even though this could have infected more Animals. The government encouraged pharmers to cheat by opening up the abattoirs again.

It is known that prior to the outbreak of f&m disease many Animals were exported to ireland where they simply disappeared into thin air. The ira has been involved in defrauding european community’s subsidies in order to raise money for their activities, “The region (south armagh) is effectively unpoliced because the IRA demands freedom from legal interference in its commercial operations, lest it inflict another Canary Wharf on London. The sheep that spread the infection to Ireland were bought illegally in England, taken illegally to a farm in Meigh, in South Armagh, and from there they were shipped illegally to slaughter in different parts of Ireland. This was not a one-off transaction, but part of an huge racket, criminal, complex and extremely sophisticated, and run at one highly profitable remove by the IRA of South Armagh throughout the ceasefire, made all the easier by the complete removal of border security.” [60]

Pharmers triggered off the f&m epidemic as a result of the appalling conditions in which they kept their slave Animals and they turned a disease outbreak into a colossal epidemic as a result of their criminal activities and the vast incentives being offered for diseased Animals. The epidemic is the direct result of pharmers’ appalling disregard for Animal welfare and their criminal activities. They brought this disease upon themselves because of their appalling unhealthy pharming practices and their corruption. Pharmers have been abusing Animals by treating them as lumps of meat and now they are suffering the consequences for this abuse - and long may this continue.