Mr Adam - and his blind followers of the 17 Dec 2002 EU vote.

 

Nobody likes to be lied to.  Nobody likes to be deceived.  Nobody likes to be party to the skulduggery of others.

 

EU Honourables  481    Noo Labour 32    

 

Do these figures not mean something to you Mr Adam  ?   Of course they do.....denial.....and here's what the bad loser says.

 

"The Conservatives and Green Members have failed in their attempt to put the blame for the foot and mouth crisis at the door of the British Government.  The European Parliament Temporary Committee has produced a reasonably balanced assessment of what was the largest outbreak of Foot and Mouth ever recorded anywhere in the world".

 

Get one thing clear Mr Adam if nothing else, it was the largest recorded slaughter of healthy animals the world has ever seen, and the shocking truth was about 87% of them were healthy. Honest figures suggest 11 million dead animals.

"Reasonably balanced" - your arrogance is as tangible as your ignorance of the truth of the matter. We all know you are trying to cover for Tony's lamentable cock-up, but when a battle is over......it's over. As a mine engineer you should know when the seam has had it. There is nothing that will keep this FMD pit-roof of Noo Labour excuses from caving in.

 

If 481 compared with 32 is a failure, then what is a "victory" in your estimation Mr Adam ?  What school of logic did you attend ?

 

Blame is well and truly at your government's door Mr Adam, it then goes right down the hall, up the stairs, and into every room and space you have and then overflows into the street.  Honourable people know who to blame alright; as the EU proved.

 

Your government was responsible, and it was to blame for the largest outbreak of stupidity and incompetence trying to control and eradicate FMD in 2001, and that recent EU vote shows it fair and square  -  the EU were not for believing any of the 12th Dec 2002 "Briefing Document" utter garbage you shoved out either were they !  Your 'mine' of misinformation has collapsed on you. Blair's last ditch effort, using your MEP votes to "save face" backfired as badly as his FMD Contingency Plan that never was did. Some failure egh ?

 

My last email to you Mr Adam, copied to your misled MEP's probably did not reach them all, so I shall embellish it a little further for the benefit of the likes of,

 

Mark Watts - Compassion in World Farming - Special interests: transport and animal rights.

I did not read any papers about your compassion or animal rights during FMD 2001 - why was that then Mark ?

Maybe you have no views on what happened regarding animal rights during the slaughter of millions of them - 87% of them healthy by the way.  I did not see you at the front of any crowd shouting to stop men with shotguns shooting pigs in a trailer ?  Nor a single word about the 25 shots to kill five healthy bullocks at Knowstone. Slaughtering healthy animals whilst they give birth is a heinous crime - I did not even see your name connected with upholding what you believe in. Forgive me if I missed your active involvement. If I'm wrong, I shall be pleased to receive supporting evidence to the contrary.

 

Glyn Ford - Human Rights, Expert on civil liberties, citizens' freedoms and rights, justice and home affairs. Member of Surfers against Sewage.

I did not read any papers about your Expert involvement about civil liberties being violated during the 2001 FMD crisis, nor freedoms being broken (Carolyn Hoffe's home being broken into ?) nor about untreated stinking leachate being poured into the Irish Sea or the North Sea (maybe no surfers to worry about ?) coming from (400 lorries a day) the suppurating mess under Great Orton. If you complained in your Expert capacity about that, I shall be pleased to see the evidence Glyn. Surprise me !

 

Gary Titley - Human Rights, security

I did not read any papers about your concerns about Human Rights or farm security during the 2001 FMD disaster - why was that Gary ?  Too busy watching rugby, football and cricket  ?  Human Rights were trodden over like never before in this country, yet the likes of you turned the other way during the FMD disgrace - why did you stay silent ?  No stomach for telling the truth about the whole hellish mess the 2001 FMD crisis was ?

 

 

Claude Moraes - Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs Committee  He has written extensiively (sic) on legal annd (sic) civil liberties issues

I did not read any papers you may have published about the legality of the Contiguous Cull after Alayne Addy saved 200 farms from that ILLEGAL barbarity - part of the Citizens Freedoms and Rights. Not a word after the "Grunty" the pig case - bit odd Claude being so clued up on the law and civil liberties; that might have been a great opportunity to help your hapless Mr Adam with his idea that there were two cases upheld even though your government withheld VITAL information - all a bit silly to use inferior cases to fall back on. They never did again did they !  Too busy with the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants were we ?  Please pass on any papers you published extensively relating to the 2001 FMD mess to refute my assessment of your active involvement.

 

Barbara O'Toole -  Economic Regeneration Officer.

I did not read any papers about how you see the UK recover from 'blowing' #20 BILLION of the purse during the 2001 FMD fiasco to protect about #650 million worth of meat exports - that would be a good Economic regeneration project for you ? I'll make it easy for you, where did #9 BILLION of taxpayers money go defending, for instance, that illegal Contiguous Cull nonsense ? 

Did you write anything about the cost/benefit of a "slaughter only" policy following Professor Peter Midmore's account ?  Please forward relevant 'papers' or even an article you wrote somewhere/anywhere about UK rural regeneration after the 2001 FMD.

 

Eluned Morgan  -  Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy  tourism, minority languages, business. Other interests: reading, audio books, walking.

I did not read any papers about how alarmed you were about the UK's environment, public health or tourism when it came to the blights all those hellish pyres caused, or the burial pits that leaked blood. What about the businesses that closed down forever (60 farmer suicides) due to your government's mishandling of the 2001 FMD disaster - did you write anything about that ? Did you write anything about eating vaccinated meat ? You like reading, I bet you did not read "Fields of Fire" by Quita Allender; because if you had, you would never have voted with the badly misinformed Mr Adam. Please send me details of anything relating to the FMD disaster you wrote about.

 

Catherine Stihler  - Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy Committee   President of the European Parliament Health Intergroup  Studied International Studies and Geography gaining an M. Litt in International Security Studies.

I did not read any 'papers' you may have published about the impact brought about by the 2001 FMD crisis on the environment and public health - did you know untreated stinking leachate went into the North Sea AND the Irish Sea (one could argue full of SRM) ?  During your International Studies, did you not come across the case for vaccination, as practised by Uruguay for instance, and now we are eating their vaccinated meat ?  A strange silence from academics like yourself. The UK FSA says there is nothing wrong with eating vaccinated meat, yet they will not broadcast the fact - much like yourself - why is this ?

 

Stephen Hughes  -  Has specialised in health and safety issues .  social exclusion, third sector, civil dialogue   

I did not read any 'papers' you may have published concerning the Health and Safety issues that were at the heart of such atrocities as GILWERN (have you heard of that slaughter ?).  Maybe you wrote about the idiots chasing cows on quad bikes and firing rifles with intent to kill these beasts, but failing badly - I did not see your articles on those issues !  Plenty of scope for your social exclusion, third sector, civil dialogue expertise Stephen. Did you in fact put pen to paper on anything related to the FMD scandal ?  There were plenty opportunities on the Health and Safety side - slaughtermen getting blisters on their hands which were mistaken by some clown as FMD !

 

 

Eryl McNally -  Friends of the Earth. Special interests: energy, research, education, overseas development, women’s rights.

I did not read any 'papers' you may have published Eryl screaming about millions of animals being buried - nothing under the banner Friends of the Earth - I don't suppose getting rid of 11 millions animals one way or the other bothers Mother 'earth' much ?  Nor pouring stinking untreated leachate into the Irish and North Sea was worth writing about either - otherwise you would have got on your high horse for these important issues ?

Education is a wonderful thing - it is a pity your Mr Adam lacks so much of it regarding FMD and the law surrounding it. Ask him why he fails to mention the case of "Grunty" the pig, and why his big shot lawyers did not progress any further battles with farmers forbidding the Contiguous Cull !   He prefers to hide behind the two cases the government "won" (cheats can always win) by its sly and devious move of failing to disclose ALL the relevant facts. I wonder why he does not mention Alayne Addy and how she saved 200 farms from his mindless and unscientific government ? Have a look what Stephen Smith QC makes of these two cases your Mr Adam's boasts about like a cockerel at dawn - you might change your mind as to why you voted as you did. 

I certainly would not put money on Lord Whitty being right (and would counsel everyone else not to): in my opinion, for the reasons I have given, the decisions in Winslade and Westerhall should not be considered as authoritative.  Stephen Smith QC   date : 20 May 2002.

 

 I did not see any women slaughterers grabbing money per animal killed - is that not an issue you might like to raise somewhere under woman's rights ?

 

Michael Cashman -  Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs Committee Human Rights   An actor for over 30 years, his career spanned films, theatre and television with both classical and contemporary roles.  Probably best known for his portrayal of Colin in BBC TV's EastEnders he has also been widely acclaimed for his Shakespearean roles.

Special interests: human rights, civil liberties, employment and social justice.
Not much acting during FMD then Mike !

Not much Justice either, nor the exercise of Human Rights - did you get a script published for any of that during the FMD 'drama' ? Mike ?  Missed your performances on Citizen's Freedoms and Rights - Kirstin McBride, "Misty the Goat"; she may have liked you standing up for her rights whilst the cops kept the family busy, giving the vet time to murder her healthy pet goat. All this done whilst ignoring human rights. Then these clever cops charged her with assault - travesty of justice or what !?  All the FMD "acts" could not be imagined, nor the roles played out - did you have any part in it ?  Maybe there were some gay slaughterers you could have "helped" get over the trauma ? Get them to join Stonewall. Missed your performance Mike, sorry.

 

 

Richard Howitt - Special interests: ethical business and fair trade, indigenous peoples and human rights. 

Another human rights artist on the cards - I failed to see anything about your distain at the way human rights were violated during the 2001 FMD crisis Richard !  Did you murmer something, somewhere - I would like to see what it was.  Was it about the fair trade the South American's do with the EU when it comes to vaccinated meat ?  Was it the fair trade Uruguay does with us with their vaccinated meat that your government will not talk about, nor the FSA failure to educate the people about ? 

Maybe it was the ethical business of the HALAL butchers - they way they cut the throats of live animals without stunning and let them bleed to death ?  I have done a little research into "ritual slaughter" and without trying to upset the religious applecart I ask the question, what is more dreadful, killing 20,000 "pests" (foxes) a year or cutting the throats of 1.56 million sheep/goats and over 91,000 cattle ?

 

One rule for some

If the UK government wants to ban foxhunting because it is cruel and infringes animal welfare, then by the same token and to avoid the charge of total hypocrisy and attacking a minority groups "rights", then "ritual slaughter" must also be banned.

If not, then why not ?

Those who delve into the ways of ritual slaughter (web links) may find the descriptions very distressing - be warned.

There is, in fact, no sentence in the Bible, and no injunction in the Talmudical treatise on slaughtering (Chullin) against making the animal unconscious.
We are united against the slaughter of conscious animals, consider it a horror in itself, and an abomination when coupled with the vicious devices used to restrain conscious livestock.  We have nothing to gain, neither on earth nor in heaven, by slaughtering God's creatures while they are conscious.
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        Rabbi Dr. Eugen Kullman
        Department of Religion and Philosophy
        New School for Social Research
        Vice-President, Friends of Animals, Inc.

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Ref Site : http://www.viva.org.uk/Viva!%20Campaigns/Slaughter/goingforthekill3.htm

 

Numbers of animals killed in the UK by religious slaughter methods

A House of Commons Research paper (1998) comments that information is not held centrally on the number of animals killed by Shechita or Halal methods. The FAWC quoted Agriculture Department estimates as follows:

Total number of animals killed by religious slaughter methods (including pre-stunned animals) per year in the UK

	Halal (Muslim)	Shechita (Jewish)	Total
Cattle	36,500	54,700	91,200
Sheep/Goats	1.531 million	28,000	1.559 million
Poultry	9.1 million	2.34 million	11.44 million

These figures include animals that are pre-stunned for Muslims. The table below shows the numbers of animals NOT stunned:

Total number of animals killed by religious slaughter methods which are not stunned per year in the UK

	Halal (Muslim)	Shechita (Jewish)	Total
Cattle	35,900	54,700	90,600
Sheep/Goats	1.214 million	28,000	1.242 million
Poultry	754,000	2.34 million	3.094 million

Comparison of number of animals stunned and not stunned by Muslims per year in the UK

	Halal (Muslim)	Shechita (Jewish)	Total
Cattle	600	35,900	36,500
Sheep/Goats	317,000	1.214 million	1.531 million
Poultry	8.346 million	754,000	9.1 million

 

 

Ref Site : http://www.ritualmurder.org/id25.htm

 

In a 22-page booklet on farm animal welfare, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals described shechitah, the kosher method of slaughter -- as well as halal, the Islamic code of animal slaughter -- as painful and distressing to animals.

    "It is a fundamental right of religious groups to practice their beliefs without hindrance," the booklet stated. "But where those beliefs are directly responsible for animal suffering, that right has to be challenged."

    "Surely it is not unreasonable to suggest that, in the light of new scientific knowledge and society's more caring attitudes to animals, religious traditions might be changed," it added.

    The booklet elicited condemnations from the Jewish Board of Deputies, the umbrella group representing secular Jewish organizations, and from the Federation of Synagogues and the London Shechitah Board.

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Ref Site : http://www.maf.govt.nz/biosecurity/animal-welfare/nawac/papers/religious-requirements.htm

 

I'm sorry Richard I missed all your 'papers' on these items, can you send then to me please ?

 

 

Bill Miller - Legal Affairs and Internal Market Committee; Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism Committee; industry and commerce, health issues.

There must have been a few legal affairs matters you could have written about Bill, to try and strengthen the fatuous argument put forward by your mate Mr Adam about the legality of the Contiguous Cull, how perhaps Alayne Addy won her 200 cases and your sly as a fox government "won" two by suppressing some vital evidence (maybe you would like to 'cross swords' with Stephen Smith QC on that one ?) - or were you taking the lead of the muted government after "Grunty" the pig case ?  

Very wise in decision, it's always best to know when you are beaten and when you are in a deep hole, stop digging. What about the health issues then, such as eating vaccinated meat ?  Nothing from your European perspective ?  Staying quiet like the FSA ?  What do you know about the health issues on eating vaccinated meat Bill ?

 

 

Mel Read  -  Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy Committee and Labour Spokesperson and Government Link Member for Trade and Industry.   Substitute member on the Legal Affairs and Internal Market Committee. social issues, competition policy, employment issues, public health and telecommunications and the information society. Other interests: bee-keeping, gardening and reading. 
Why could you not have said something Mel about the External Trade in vaccinated meat, so that the UK population would not have been so convinced by the NFU's dumb arguments ?   Then again you could have said something about the Trade and Industry we do with South America in vaccinated meat; or the legal side of killing healthy animals - which was illegal !   Maybe even a word or two on the social issues that caused 60 farmers to commit suicide during the 2001 FMD fiasco. Maybe the competition policy between Uruguay supplying vaccinated meat to the UK instead of good old Aberdeen Angus ?  Public health with all that stinking untreated leachate being poured into the Irish and North Sea which more than likely contained BSE/SRM material - could you pacify doubters with your FMD knowledge ?  You will know by now that DEFRA were hopeless when it came to the information society; maybe your expert help could be offered even now ? 

 

Simon Murphy  -  Special interests:  industrial policy, small and medium sized businesses, competitiveness, employment, and anti-racism. Other interests: running, writing, reading, fishing, cooking and watching football.

Having agreed with Mr Adam such that you voted "against" the EU FMD resolution on the 17 Dec 2002, what persuaded you that you knew enough about FMD to believe him, or did you just believe the garbage that was in his 12 Dec 2002 "Briefing Document" ?  Plenty small and medium sized businesses went under due FMD - did you manage to write about this during 2001 in-between running, writing, reading, fishing, cooking and watching football  ?

Glenys Kinnock - Citizens Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs Committee. Has written books about Eritrea and Namibia. Former teacher in secondary, primary, infant and nursery schools.  Ethical business and fairtrade, indigenous peoples, human rights.

 

I wonder if you would agree with me Glenys if I said, "Nobody likes to be lied to.  Nobody likes to be deceived.  Nobody likes to be party to the skulduggery of others" ?   I have the faint suspicion you would.  I have also the faint suspicion some of those words would be in your lessons to the children in your role as a teacher all those decades ago - would I be correct ?

Then why Mrs Kinnock have you allowed yourself to be talked into agreeing with Mr Adam by the act of adding your name to his shameful attempt to cover and hide the truth about the 2001 FMD fiasco, by voting against the EU FMD resolution on the 17 Dec 2002 having sighted his deplorable 12 Dec 2002 "Briefing Document" ?

 

I do not suppose you know that Namibia exported 8,589 tonnes of vaccinated meat to the UK between Jan and Dec 2001 ?

 

Yet your big buddy Mr Blair and Maff/Defra had a hairy fit about vaccinating our healthy animals during that FMD fiasco he was "in charge" of !   He could have been a hero instead of the leader of a debased government that shamed a nation.

Having been persuaded by others not to vaccinate (like the NFU, and Nestle) and the laughable Mr Morley who "considered vaccination 10 times" you and the nation watched million after million of these healthy animals burn for weeks. We read about many more millions being buried.  We now read about what a unprecedented Olympian cock-up the Labour government made of the whole issue, yet the hapless Mr Adam still has the brass necked audacity to say, "The Conservatives and Green Members have failed in their attempt to put the blame for the foot and mouth crisis at the door of the British Government".

 

So who was to blame then ? The people of Namibia who vaccinate their cattle and send us their meat or some clown who refused to authorise localised vaccination during a National Emergency when the EU had given their permission ? 

Tricky question for an ex-school teacher, now wearing the long black robes for political comfort.

What about your views on Halal slaughter when balanced against fox-hunting ?  I've missed your articles in the ethical business press about that one too. 

 

I wonder if you will be tempted to write another book starting with your familiar words, "Could do better....."  on how to handle an FMD crisis ?  I don't think you will somehow, for I have seen nothing of your views on how the crisis was handled or what you know of it - hence my utter surprise and disbelief that you found enough informed comment from somewhere to vote with Mr Adam so readily !  I don't suppose Neil helped you on that score either, as he is too busy with other matters. How is he getting on finding out who fiddled the EU books to the tune of #billions ?  Still no accounts then ?   Never mind, I'm sure it's an ethical business even though the idea of letting the EU citizens see the FULL accounts now and then is not on the menu (pity about no "double-entry" system).

 

Conclusion

 

I find it utterly astonishing and profoundly sad that an educated collection people such as yourselves can be duped into signing/voting with the 'arguments' that Mr Adam presented to you all on his "Briefing Document dated 12 Dec 2002, and on the 17 Dec 2002 you sold your souls to brass necked hypocrisy and wanton falsehoods that his document contained.

I would have to put it down to an act of total unadulterated ignorance on your parts, for NONE of you has published anything substantial (if at all) connected with FMD to give you any sort of qualified right to vote the way you did  -  stinking rotten politics got in the way of truth. There is no shame, nor a hint of an apology from Noo Labour.

 

NONE of you gave evidence to the Royal Society (that I can find) yet you voted for changes Mr Adam pushed as fact, when the truth was otherwise to be found had you cared to look for it.

Do you honestly believe in your hearts, "The allegation that there were violations of animal welfare legislation during culls and in connection with the movement ban; there is no evidence for this ........ "

If you are ready to swear on a bible you believe that, then I have NO faith in anything, any of you say ever again.

In fact, don't even look for a bible - an honourable person could not be party to that clap-trap about no animal welfare violations.

 

The Contiguous Cull was the most vile and evil example of bad science ever to lead an equally bad government through. A government who have been proven to have failed their country in the most appalling and shameful manner. That is was helped, assisted and controlled by the police, the army and veterinary endeavours is a indelible blot on a once civilised society. It is a sad reflection on how we perceive our relationship with sentient beings, and how we master a curable disease.

 

The hastily updated Defra FMD Contingency Plan had better be changed PDQ, for it still preaches the sick and heinous lessons of 2001 as it rides on the back of an equally repugnant AHB. 

 

I take some comfort that the EU is now in the driving seat on FMD matters, as the UK cannot be trusted. The vaccinate-to-live policy is the preferred affordable option from day one  -  make sure you use it next time. Prove you can learn from your unpardonable mistakes.

 

As a penance, you will all do well to read Stephen Smith QC's letter regarding the illegal Contiguous Cull  -  reproduced below from Warmwell.   If that name does mean anything to you, then get a grip and learn from www.warmwell.com

 

 

I shall be pleased to apologise to any of you who prove me wrong - which is far more than your government ever pledges.

 

 

Captain Bryn Wayt

 

 

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To : All Labour MEP's who voted against the resolution on the EU FMD issue - 17 Dec 2002.

 

Gordon Adam, David Bowe, Michael Cashman, Richard Corbett, Robert Evans, Glyn Ford, Mary Honeyball, Richard Howitt, Stephen Hughes, Glenys Kinnock, Linda McAvan,  Arlene McCarthy, Eryl McNally, David Martin, Bill Miller, Claude Moraes, Eluned Morgan, Simon Murphy, Barbara O'Toole, Mel Read, Brian Simpson, Peter Skinner, Catherine Stihler, Gary Titley, Mark Watts, Philip Whitehead, Terry Wynn.

 

The Report was passed by 481 votes in favour,  32 votes against ( 27 UK Labour MEPs) and 13 abstentions.

 

 

Slaughter on Suspicion

 

In my opinion that is what happened to your credibility when you decided to follow, like lambs to the slaughter, that disgusting assemblage of lies and deceit concocted by Gordon Adam in his "government briefing sheet" (dated 12 Dec 2002) prior to the vote on the 17 Dec 2002.

 

Nobody likes to be lied to.  Nobody likes to be deceived.  Nobody likes to be party to the skulduggery of others (is that not right Mrs Blair ? ) - you all have, in my opinion, been ill advised and unwisely guided by Mr Adam, and by superior judgement of your peers been found wanting.  By putting your names to Mr Adam's unwholesome propaganda you have left an indelible stain on a nation.

 

You all purport to agree with him on his now proven pile of nonsense, and yet I see that NOT ONE of you presented any evidence to the Royal Society's Inquiry into FMD. Ref Site : http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/inquiry/evidence_ind_w.htm

Yet you all vote upon these heavy issues as if you knew the first thing about the affair. Clearly you don't give a damn; and for purely party political reasons you voted with Mr Adam - honour, honesty and truth buried with the 11 million animals.

 

I have been surprised by some of you. Some of you obviously find doing U-turns so easy.

 

David Martin : The man who had to get his brain turned round !

"The key event in the emergence of Labour's new policy was the decision at the beginning of 1988 by Neil Kinnock, the Party Leader, to abandon Labour's previous commitment to withdrawing Britain from the EC if it won power. The intellectual ground for that change was prepared in a Fabian pamphlet written by David Martin, MEP, then Leader of the Labour group at Strasbourg..."

His most recent Fabian publication A partnership democracy for Europe and his chapter Power to the People in Changing States; A Labour Agenda for Europe, edited by Glenys Kinnock draws on the work he did as the European Parliament's rapporteur on the current Intergovernmental Conference and sketches out what a socialist Labour policy for Europe might look like.

If the vote on the FMD crisis had anything to do with it then his, "sketches out what a socialist Labour policy for Europe might look like" - does not only "might look like" it definitely looks like you want to bury the truth if it means avoiding a roasting; why else did Mr Adam try and smudge, bury, and go into 'denial' with his fatuous bullet points in that briefing sheet ?  You mention animal rights campaigner in your European CV - not much evidence of you on the front lines helping the animals David !  Did I miss anything you wrote about the hellish slaughters that went wrong, or did you not bother ?

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Phillip Whitehead : http://www.labmeps-emids.fsnet.co.uk/

Looks like he is in charge of "Total Hypocrisy" -  of the Burrel case, he said,

"Think about it. Where else in Europe would the criminal process be first invoked, and then aborted, at the behest of a family which feared for its closest secrets. It is not the example of other EU nation states that we should fear, but the example we are making of ourselves".

"Closest secrets" of FMD and where was the Chief Witness (Mr T. Blair) when the EU asked for him to spill the beans on his total sham control and eradication of FMD during 2001 ? There were criminal activities and verifiable cruelty to animals, but it was all buried with the evidence. As Phillip so wisely points out, "the example we are making of ourselves" that's what the Labour party now fears - a Labour party who hide the truth, and then arrogantly refuse to say sorry when they have obviously lied and deceived a nation over and above having squandered #BILLIONS of their hard earned cash. That's criminal - where else in Europe - try Page Street, try Downing Street.

Mary Honeyball : http://www.maryhoneyball.net/docs/biography.html

I spent some time as Chief Executive of Gingerbread, the lone parent's support charity. I have, in addition, run a local Council for Voluntary Service, been a senior Manager with SCOPE and prior to becoming an MEP, was General Secretary of the Association of Chief Officers of Probation.

How the truth affects all these areas Mary, and yet has been avoided in Mr Adam's briefing Note has escaped you surely ?

Richard Corbett : http://www.labour-eastyorkshire.org/ereport.htm

Special Interests Building a more effective, democratic and accountable EU. Constitutional issues. The Euro.

Poor Richard better think again then.........democratic and accountable !!!   What a sick joke. Those who inflicted FMD atrocities on farmers have never been held accountable. Morley's Cumbria cull said to be voluntary - then retracted by the same man. If a CEO had misappropriated a company fund to the tune of #1 Billion he would have been sacked. The UK Plc has been raped of, lets just say 10 times that, and not one UK Plc official has been tossed to the lions.  Hey ! Richard, you have a hell of a lot of building to do sunshine; talk is cheap. 

Linda McAvan : http://www.labour-eastyorkshire.org/ereport.htm

Deputy Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party. Bureau Member of the Socialist Group, Member of the Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy Committee

Well Linda, you have a lot of homework to do on the Human Rights that were torn to shreds by your jackbooted killer squads during the 2001 FMD crisis have you not ?  No violations to investigate whatsoever ?   Buried by Mr Adam ?

Conclusion

I just want you all to know that I hold you in the highest contempt for putting your names to vote "against", as it was one of the most hideous documented attempts to hide the truth about the 2001 FMD self-induced disaster by a government bereft of honesty and back-bone.

Ephesians 4

You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbour, for we are all members of one body.

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Captain Bryn Wayt

 

 

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Mark Watts MEP South East Labour Euro Office, 29 Park Road, Sittingbourne, ME10 1DR Tel: 01795 477880  Fax: 01795 437224 email: mfwatts1@aol.com website: www.markwatts.labour.co.uk Brussels  Tel: 00 322 284 5568 Fax: 00 322 284 9568 Email: mwatts@europarl.eu.int MEP since 1994. Born 1964.

Member of the European Parliament Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism Committee.  Labour Spokesperson and Government Link on Transport and Tourism, and Government Link with the Cabinet Office.  Substitute member on the Employment and Social Affairs Committee.

Vice-President of the European Parliament delegation for relations with Malta.

Leader of the Labour Group on Maidstone Borough Council 1990-1994. Member of the TGWU, Compassion in World Farming, and the Co-operative Party. Former local government officer. School governor.

Chair of the European Fabian Society; Co-chair European Transport Safety Committee; Member of the TGWU.

Special interests: transport and animal rights.

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Glyn Ford MEP South West Office of Glyn Ford MEP, South West Labour Party, 1 Newfoundland Court, Newfoundland Street, Bristol BS2 9AP Tel: 0117 924 6399  Fax: 0117 924 8599 Website: www.glynford.com email: penny_richardson@new.labour.org.uk Brussels Tel: 00 322 284 5518/7518 Fax: 00 322 284 9518 Email: gford@europarl.eu.int MEP since 1984. born 1950

Member of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy and is a substitute member on the  Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy Committee

Expert on civil liberties, citizens' freedoms and rights, justice and home affairs.

Member of the European Parliament's Delegation for relations with Japan.

Former Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party (1989-1993)

Former senior research assistant and fellow in science and technology policy at Manchester University. Local councillor 1978-86.

Member of MSF, and President of the European Parliament interparliamentary council against anti-semitism.  Patron of the Anne Frank Trust.

Member of the Editorial Board of Tribune.  Member of Surfers against Sewage and the Willam Morris Society.

Special interests: reasearch (sic) and development, Japan and East Asia, fascism and racism, inward investment and defence.
 

To view a copy of Glyn Ford MEP's submission to the Register of Members' Interests held on the European Parliament's website,  click here.
 

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Gary Titley MEP North West 16 Spring Lane, Radcliffe, Manchester |M26 2TQ Tel: 0161 724 4008 Fax: 0161 724 4009 email: contact@gary-titley-mep.new.labour.org.uk website:  www.garytitley.eu.com Brussels  Tel: 00 322 284 5212 Fax: 00 322 284 9212 email: gtitley@europarl.eu.int MEP since 1989. Born 1950.

Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party, and Vice-President of the Parliamentary Group of Party of European Socialists.

Member of the Labour Party National Executive Committee.

Labour Spokesperson and Government Link on the European Parliament's Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy Committee and a substitute Member of the Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Foreign and Defence Policy Committee.

Specialist in trade and economic policy. Took a key role in the enlargement negotiations - was Rapporteur on Finland’s accession and Chair of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the European Economic Area (EEA). Speaks fluent Spanish and has working knowledge of French.

Former Director of the West Midlands Enterprise Board. Chaired the West Midlands Co-op Finance Company and the Black Country Co-op Development Agency. Member of the Labour Party’s Plant Committee on electoral reform. Member of the West Midlands County Council 1981-86.

Special interests: EU enlargement, security, defence industry.

Other interests: spy thrillers, theatre and watching rugby, football and cricket.
 

To view a copy of Gary Titley MEP's submission to the Register of Members' Interests held on the European Parliament's website, click here. 

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Claude Moraes MEP London 65 Barnsbury Street London N1 1EJ Tel: 020 7609 5005 Fax: 020 7609 3005 email: cmoraes@europarl.fsnet.co.uk Website: www.claudemoraes.net Brussels  Tel: 00 322 284 5553  Fax: 00 322 284 9553 email:  cmoraes@europarl.eu.int MEP since 1999.  Born 1965.

Claude Moraes is the Labour Spokesperson and Government Link on  the European Parliament's Employment and Social Affairs Committee.
Claude is also a substitute Member on the Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs Committee.
First Vice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with South Africa.  Vice President of the Parliament's Anti-racism Intergroup.

Member of Labour Party National Policy Forum.

Prior to his election as an MEP, Claude Moraes was the Director of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, the UK's only independent national organisation working on immigration, asylum and European migration matters.

Former researcher to the Rt Hon Dr John Reid MP and Paul Boateng MP.  Former National Policy Officer at the Trades Union Congress, and worked at the European TUC.

Claude Moraes was appointed as a CRE Commissioner in 1998. He is a Trustee of East London charity Toynbee Hall, and a Council Member of Liberty and Charter 88.  He studied Law and International Law at Dundee University and the LSE.  He has written extensiively (sic) on legal annd (sic) civil liberties issues, and in 1998 he won a British Diversity Award for his contribution to the Voluntary Sector.

Member of the AEEU, MSF and the Co-operative Party.

Special interests: civil liberties, immigration, asylum and the free movement of people in Europe, employment, trade union issues, London Government and regeneration.
 

To view a copy of Claude Moraes MEP's submission to the Register of Members' Interests held on the European Parliament's website,  click here

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Barbara O'Toole MEP North East 7 Palmersville, Great Lime Road, Forest Hall Newcastle-upon-tyne NE12 9HN Tel: 0191 256 6066  Fax: 0191 256 6067 email: botoolemep2@aol.com website:  www.otoole-mep.com Brussels Tel: 00 322 284 5362  Fax: 00 322 284 9362 email: botoole@europarl.eu.int MEP since 1999. Born 1960

Socialist Group Co-ordinator, Labour Spokesperson and Government Link Member on the European Parliament's Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport Committee and substitute member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee.

Member of the European Parliament EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee.

Steering Group and founder member of the European Internet Foundation.

Former Head of Policy Promotion at the Local Government Internation Bureau.  Was a university lecturer and an Economic Regeneration Officer.

Member of MSF and Unison, workeed (sic) with Unison in the peace and reconcilliation (sic) process in Northern Ireland; worked for the Polish and UK Government establishing local government economic development capacity.  Has authored books on governance and regeneration.

Special interests: regional and economic policy; new forms of governance and regeneration; media and broadcasting; European economic and industrial policy.
 

To view a copy of Barbara O'Toole MEP's submission to the Register of Members' Interests held on the European Parliament's webstie (sic) click here. 
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Eluned Morgan MEP Wales Labour Wales Euro Office The Coal Exchange, Mount Stuart Square Cardiff CF10 6EB Tel: 029 2048 5305   Fax: 029 2048 4534 Email: emorgan@europe-wales.new.labour.org.uk Website:  www.poptel.org.uk/eluned.morgan.mep North Wales: 47 Kinmel Street, Rhyl, LL18 1AG Tel: 01745 369507   Fax: 01745 369038 Brussels  Tel: 00 322 284 5457 Fax: 00 322 284 9457 Email: emorgan@europarl.eu.int MEP since 1994. Born 1967.

Socialist Group Co-ordinator, Labour Spokesperson and Government Link on the European Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee and is a substitute member on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy.

Memberof the European Parliamentary Labour Party Bureau.

Member of the European Parliament's Delegation for relations with Central America.

Former television documentary researcher. Worked as a stagiaire in the European Parliament in 1990.
Member of the European Movement, Amnesty International, Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign, BECTU and AEEU

Special interests: devolution, tourism, minority languages, business.

Other interests: reading, audio books, walking.
 

To view a copy of Eluned Morgan MEP's submission to the Register of Members' Interests held on the European Parliament's website click here.

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Catherine Stihler MEP Scotland Unit 3, Albany Business Centre Gardener Street, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, KY12 0RN Tel: 01383 731890 Fax: 01383 731835 email:  cstihler@cstihlermep.freeserve.co.uk Brussels Tel: 00 322 284 5462  Fax:  00 322 284 9462 email: cstihler@europarl.eu.int Born 1973    MEP since 1999.

Catherine Stihler is a member of  the European Parliament's  Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy Committee and is Labour Spokesperson and Government Link on the Fisheries Committee.

President of the European Parliament Health Intergroup.  Member of the European Parliament Delegation for relations with Hungary.

Former researcher and facilitator to Aberdeen South MP Anne Begg, prior to her election as an MEP, and is a former Young Labour representative on Labour’s National Executive Committee and has been member of the Labour Party National Policy Forum.

Catherine was the Labour Party candidate in Angus in the 1997 general election.

Worked in Germany and Italy as a student and co-ordinated visits of Central and Eastern European politicians to Scotland.

Former President of St Andrews University Students' Association.  Studied International Studies and Geography gaining an M. Litt in International Security Studies.

Special interests: environment, public health, volunteering, disability issues and European security.

Other interests: backgammon, films, singing and going to the gym.
 

To view a copy of Catherine Stihler MEP's submission to the 1999 Register of Members' Interests held on the European Parliaments website  click here.

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Stephen Hughes MEP North East North East Regional Office - Euro Constituency Room 4/38 County Hall, Durham DHI 5UR Tel: 0191 384 9371 Fax: 0191 384 6100 email: alma@mep.u-net.com website: www.daltonet.com/StephenHughesMEP Brussels Tel: 00 322 284 5408 Fax: 00 322 284 9408 email: sthughes@europarl.eu.int   MEP since 1984. Born 1952

Socialist Group Co-ordinator on the European Parliament Employment and Social Affairs Committee and is a substitute member on the Budgets Committee.

Member of the European Parliament delegation for relations with Russia.

Former Local Government Officer.  Member of the GMB, Amnesty International and President of Chester-le-Street MIND.

Has specialised in health and safety issues in the European Parliament, pressing for a range of new workplace laws and working environment funds.

Special interests: working environment, health and safety, social exclusion, third sector, civil dialogue.

Other interests: information society and getting the best for the North East.
 

To view a copy of Stephen Hughes MEP's submission to the Register of Members' Interests held on the European Parliament's website click here.
 

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Eryl McNally MEP East of England European Office, The Labour Party, 270 St Albans Road, Watford, Herts WD2 5PE. Tel: 01923 242102  Fax: 01923 242063 Email: eryl.mcnally@geo2.poptel.org.uk Website: www.erylmcnallymep.org.uk Brussels Tel: 00 322 284 5921 Fax: 00 322 284 9921 Email: emcnally@europarl.eu.int MEP since 1994. Born 1942

Socialist Group Co-ordinator on the European Parliament Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy Committee, substitute member on the Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities Committee.   European Parliament Delegation for relations with South America.

Member of the Labour Party National Policy Forum.

Former schools inspector for modern languages.

Former Deputy Leader of Hertfordshire County Council and member of the TGWU, Amnesty International, Socialist Education Association, Friends of the Earth, World Development Movement, SERA, Action for South Africa and the Co-operative Party.

Special interests: energy, research, education, overseas development, women’s rights.

Other interests: learning languages, folk and world music, swimming.
 

To view a copy of Eryl McNally MEP's submission to the Register of Members' Interests held on the European Parliament's website,  click here. 
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Michael Cashman MEP West Midlands  West Midlands Labour European Office Terry Duffy House, Thomas Street, West Bromwich B70 6PY Tel: 0121 569 1923  Fax: 0121 525 0949 email: jkeenan@michaelcashmanmep.org.uk website:  www.michaelcashmanmep.org.uk Brussels Tel: 00 322 284 5759  Fax: 00 322 284 9759 email: mcashman@europarl.eu.int MEP since 1999.  Born 1950.

Michael Cashman is a member of the European Parliament's Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs Committee and is a substitute member on the Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Foreign and Defence Policy Committee.

Michael is the European Parliamentary Labour Party Spokesperson on Northern Ireland.  Member of Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee.

Member of the Labour Party National Executive Committee since 1998.

An actor for over 30 years, his career spanned films, theatre and television with both classical and contemporary roles.  Probably best known for his portrayal of Colin in BBC TV's EastEnders he has also been widely acclaimed for his Shakespearean roles.

A trade unionist since 1969, he was elected Chair and Honorary Treasurer of the actors' union, Equity from 1994 to 1998.   Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Founder and Chair of the Stonewall Group (1988-1996), he was awarded a Special Service Award in 1988 for his campaigning work by the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights and the Gay Medical Association.

Special interests: human rights, civil liberties, employment and social justice.
 

To view a copy of Michael Cashman MEP's submission to the Register of Members' Interests, which is held on the European Parliament's website click here.

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Richard Howitt MEP East of England Labour European Office, The Labour Hall,  Colligwood Road, Witham, Essex CM8 2EE Tel: 01376 501700 Fax: 01376 501900 email: richard.howitt@geo2.poptel.org.uk web site:  www.richardhowitt.labour.co.uk Brussels Tel: 00 322 284 5477 Fax: 00 322 284 9477 Email: rhowitt@europarl.eu.int MEP since 1994. Born 1961

Member of the European Parliament's Development and Co-operation Committee and substitute member on  Employment and Social Affairs Committee

Member of the African, Caribean (sic) and Pacific States ACP-EU Joint Assembly.

President of the European Parliament's all-party group on disability.  He worked in the voluntary sector before becoming an MEP.

Member of Labour Party National Policy Forum.

Trustee of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies, honorary Vice-President of the Local Government Association, honorary President of the South and East Economic Development Strategy Think-tank, advisory board member of the World Development Movement.  Member of Unison and the AEEU.

Formerly Leader of Harlow Council for three years.

Special interests: disability rights, co-operative and voluntary sector issues, local government and Europe, ethical  business and fair trade, indigenous peoples and human rights.
 

To view a copy of Richard Howitt MEP's submission to the Register of Members' Interests held on the European Parliament's website, click here.
 

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Glenys Kinnock MEP Wales Labour Wales Euro Office The Coal Exchange, Mount Stuart Square Cardiff CF10 6EB Tel: 029 2048 5305   Fax: 029 2048 4534 Email: gkinnock@europe-wales.new.labour.org.uk North Wales: 47 Kinmel Street, Rhyl, LL18 1AG Tel: 01745 369507   Fax: 01745 369038  Brussels Tel: 00 322 284 5402 Fax: 00 322 284 9402 Email: gkinnock@europarl.eu.int MEP since 1994. Born 1944.

Labour Spokesperson and Government Link on the European Parliament's Development and Co-operation Committee.
Government Link with the Welsh Office.  Substitute member of the Citizens Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs Committee.

Vice-President of the African, Caribean (sic) and Pacific States ACP-EU Joint Assembly.

Former teacher in secondary, primary, infant and nursery schools.

President of One World Action, the development NGO, and patron of Saferworld and Jubilee 2000.  Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, President of Coleg Harlech, she holds a Doctorate at Bruunel (sic) University, and holds an Honorary Fellowship at the University College of Wales.

Member of the GMB, the Co-operative Party, the NUT and is President of Steel Action in the European Parliament.

Has written books about Eritrea and Namibia and, in 1993, her collection of interviews with British women, "By Faith and Daring" was published. In 1996 she produced "Could Do Better - where is Britain in the European Education League Tables?"

Special interests: Disability rights, co-operative and voluntary sector issues, local government and Europe, ethical business and fairtrade, indigenous peoples, human rights, gender issues, children's rights, third world development, education and the steel industry.
 
 

To view a copy of Glenys Kinnock MEP's submission to the Register of Members' Interests held on the European Parliament's website click here 
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Simon Murphy MEP West Midlands  West Midlands Labour European Office Terry Duffy House, Thomas Street,  West Bromwich B70 6NT Tel: 0121 569 1920  Fax: 0121 525 0949  email: tonyc@simon-murphy-mep.new.labour.org.uk website:  www.simonmurphymep.org.uk Brussels Tel: 00 322 284 5514 Fax: 00 322 284 9514 Email: smurphy@europarl.eu.int MEP since 1994. Born 1962.

Member of the European Parliament's Budgets Committee.

Member of the European Parliament Delegation for relations with Slovakia.

A former university tutor, local government officer and research/press officer to John Bird MEP from 1989-1994. Governor of the University of Wolverhampton and board member of the West Midland Development Agency.

Member of the GMB.

Special interests:  industrial policy, small and medium sized businesses, competitiveness, employment, and anti-racism.

Other interests: running, writing, reading, fishing, cooking and watching football.
 

To view a copy of Simon Murphy MEP's submission to the Register of Members' Interests held on the European Parliament's website click here. 
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4.                  However, this regrettably contains some errors of fact in respect of the outbreak in Great Britain. These include:

 

7        The allegation that lack of an effective system for identifying and tracing rapidly the transport routes taken by sheep hampered efforts to control disease; this was not the case.

 

Who’s fault was that then ?  No Contingency Plan, no tracing system you could call on.

 

7        The allegation that there were violations of animal welfare legislation during culls and in connection with the movement ban; there is no evidence for this and any allegations of welfare breaches were fully investigated

 

This was no “allegation” – the national papers were full of stories of atrocities.

 

1.      Sunday Times, 20 May 2001, Page 1. 3 Jon Ungoed-Thomas. “The RSPCA already has 60 cases under investigation….. MAFF has also received a complaint about a cow that survived for three days after being shot in the head……..Simon Middle, a tenant farmer at Sandhurst, Gloucester, said he has been told his lifestock would be sedated before being culled, ‘An idiot with a high-powered rifle turned up and just started shooting at my 87 cattle in one shed from up to 60 feet. It was complete lunacy. The cattle just went berserk, smashing the walls and trying to get out”.

2.      “Slaughtermen at Knowstone, Devon, riddled FIVE bullocks with 25 shots after they escaped from a cull. One animal was shot in the spine and writhed on the ground for 5 minutes before being killed”.

3.      Maff officials said the vast majority of animals had been killed quickly and humanely. It was investigating 12 cases in which its welfare guidelines had NOT been adhered to”.

 

 

7        The allegation that farmers were intimidated and pressurised in connection with the culls; there is no evidence offered for this.

 

If there have been no signs of FMD what can be the rightful authority issuing a “false Form A” then slaughtering healthy animals – here is what Dr Roger Windsor (vet) said, “The sorry story of vets examining herds and flocks of animals and when finding them free from disease signing the Form A, declaring the farm to be an infected place, will forever be a blot on the reputation of DEFRA. Yet the RCVS still takes no action. Young and inexperienced, or foreign vets were told by senior members of our profession that if they did not sign a Form A, the livestock would be killed anyway, and the farmer would receive no compensation. Lies. Farmers were told that if they did not co-operate in the slaughter of their sheep then their cattle would be taken as well. Doors were broken down by police to tear away pet goats from young girls. A retired vet in Dumfries who lived in the wrong place had his goats killed although there was a large housing estate between him and the infected farm. He had been involved with the ’67 outbreak, knew the disease and volunteered to keep his animals under close observation. The animals were killed. The widow of a veterinary surgeon had the door to her house broken down by the police so that her six sheep could be killed. It was a pity that they broke down the wrong door ! The animals were killed. The Animal Sanctuary at Mossburn had upset people by refusing to have their animals killed. However, after court action it was finally decided that they had to go and so SERAD agreed with her practitioner that he could put her animals to sleep at 10:00 am on the Saturday morning. At 5.50 am. on the morning agreed, police vehicles sealed off the road to the Sanctuary. The main road was also blocked at each end with police vehicles. Two cars and a police van blocked the side road, leading to the Sanctuary. There were ten police officers in the van. Two cars blocked the farm drive and four more police and a solitary constable stood near the house. A total of more than 30 policeman were involved.

      No one was allowed in or out. Is this how we as a profession wish to be portrayed ? Ross Finnie the Minister of Rural Affairs in Scotland, like Tony Blair, when confronted with Phoenix, decided that, with an election coming, there was just too much bad publicity and the policy was changed. The animals remain alive to this day.
Were all this not bad enough, the incompetence was compounded by a decision on a farm at Moffat that wild goats played no part in the epidemiology of this outbreak and so when the farm went down with FMD, it was decided that the wild goats on the farm would not be killed ! This made a real mockery of the slaughter of the pet goats in the county.
These horror stories refer only to Dumfries, where I had first hand knowledge; they have been repeated in Cumbria, and in Devon, and probably other areas as well. One wonders if MAFF had any idea of the meaning of decency, compassion or even justice.

 

7        The allegation that contiguous culls involved lax biosecurity and infringements of welfare law. Again no evidence is offered and this was not the case.

Have they heard of GILWERN ?   It took the HSE to take the Council to court and found them guilty.

Nick Green’s evidence as before.

 

7        The inference that the contiguous cull was not effective in curbing the disease; the Lessons Learned inquiry noted that it played a critical part in disease control in the 2001 outbreak.

 

Of 33,005 farms culled out as “contiguous” 210 were tested – there were NO “positive” test results.

Of 7,178 that were culled out as DC’s, 396 were tested, ONE was “positive”.

 

 

7        The allegation that there was further transmission of the virus due to the movement of carcasses to mass burial or incineration sites. There is no epidemiological evidence that transport of carcasses from infected premises through uninfected areas resulted in the transmission of infection to previously uninfected areas.

 

That's rich - did DEFRA use that sort of argument on Contiguous Premises ?

As Morley said, just because you get a “negative” does not mean no disease !?

 

 

7        The suggestion that the 3 km cull in Cumbria and Dumfries and Galloway may not have had a basis in domestic law. 

This is where Lord Whitty has been very badly briefed by someone who has not read Mr Justice Harrison's summing up properly.  What won the case for Rosemary Upton and Stephen Smith was the fact that the judge wisely decided that - even if the animals had been infected by transmission of infectious material by the defendant from an infected premises to her animal - there was no risk to surrounding farms. 

Lord Whitty cannot answer the question about why there were no further challenges following this disaster for MAFF - because there is no answer.  They had had their fingers burned.  They may well have realised that the evidence from Donaldson and Sumption was such dynamite that no challenge could possibly succeed - but they showed no desire to put it to the test.

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