FOOT & MOUTH DISEASE.FACT SHEET

•	Foot & Mouth Disease is a viral illness, usually mild in mature sheep and moderately unpleasant for some cattle. 
It depresses the profitability  of the animal for a while afterward.
•	The horrific problems of F&M arise not from the disease, but from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF)’s 19th century approach to disease control by mass slaughter of healthy animals ringing an outbreak.
•	The modern alternative – ring vaccination – is effective and cheap (it costs £1 to vaccinate a cow, compared with £1400 to kill and dispose of it).
•	MAFF has consistently misled the media and the public about vaccination.
•	MAFF makes much of the fact that a vaccinated herd will have some carriers of the virus.  In fact, cheap and readily available modern tests can distinguish between carriers and non-carriers. 
•	Ironically, MAFF’s strategy causes much more disease spread than vaccinated carriers or even ramblers.  Burning spreads the virus in the smoke, and the road journey to rendering plants and burial sites scatters infected materials into clean areas – as clearly shown in the report on the 1967 outbreak.
•	The disposal of millions of carcasses gives rise to intolerable air and water pollution and the risks of disease.
•	Pyre smoke contains dioxins and PAHs (Cancer causing agents),SO2, particulates (asthma and heart disease). Worse, MAFF have seriously underestimated the risk of spreading BSE and vCJD from all these fires.
•	MAFF’s policy is ineffective,  traumatic, polluting, expensive, immoral, cruel and wrong.  The Green Party & UK Independence Party, along with many other organisations & informed individuals call for 
VACCINATION  WITH NO MASS SLAUGHTER
This Leaflet Is From: www.SilentMajority.co.UK/FootInMouth
YOU CAN
MAKE A REAL
DIFFERENCE

It is up to each and every one of us to defeat the shame that The Government and their agents The NFU & MAFF have brought on our country. You can help by:
•	Wearing the white V for vaccination ribbon.
•	Asking your radio station to play Misty for me.  Misty was a healthy pet goat killed by MAFF.
•	Joining in the SILENCE FOR THE LAMBS for one minute at 12 midday on Tuesdays
•	Joining in demonstrations outside MAFF regional offices
•	Writing to Tony Blair PM at 10 Downing Street, London SW1A OAA demanding him to make decisions in Britain’s interests NOT as a puppet for the EU & 
•	- vaccinate (if he has not already done so by the time you get this leaflet), 
•	- stop the needless mass killing of healthy animals
- order the demise of MAFF, an inquiry into the whole fiasco, and reconstruction of agriculture 
•	Donating to communities like Epynt  who are fighting a grim battle to save their environment. 
•	                                             (www.epynt-disaster.co.uk) 
•	and visiting sites which give the FACTS www.sheepdrove.com   www.soilassociation.com 
•	www.SilentMajority.co.UK/FootInMouth
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