Mary had a little lamb
It's mouth had got no blisters
Now it's burning in a ditch
With it's brothers and it's sisters

Why are you as tax payers allowing this mass slaughter of healthy livestock presently taking place in Northumberland?  Do you realise that billions of pounds of your money has been used to purchase not only animals that have been tested positive for foot and mouth disease, but thousands of animals that have not.

The government are paying farmers up to three times  the market value for each animal they purchase.  Why?  To slaughter them en masse then either bury the carcasses or burn them, thus risking pollution and endangering human lives.  There are many hungry people in the world, but Britain chooses to dispose of millions of tons of good quality uninfected English lamb, beef and pork.  What is the point of this?  Why import foreign meat when we have more than enough of our own, and far better quality?

Farmers have been intimidated by MAFF all over the country, and albeit too late now, they have begun to wake up to the lies that have been told to them. They now realise that their animals need not have been killed and the tax payers money would not have been wasted.

Surely all you hard working folk want to see your money being put to better use.  Hospitals and schools might be a good start.

Please, please wake up and stop this nonsense now, that is unless of course you prefer Northumberland without animals, but remember Northumberland without sheep will no longer require shepherds, Northumberland without cattle will no longer require stockmen.  Northumberland without livestock will no longer require  auction marts, feed merchants, butchers or vets and those farmers who depend on an income by letting  their land for grass parks will have no rent coming in at all.
There is an alternative – animals can be vaccinated against Foot and Mouth Disease.
Remember, it is you the tax payer that is contributing to this insanity!

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