Group: uk.environment.conservation
From: "Baroness Edwina Frogbucket"
Date: Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: Infected animals everywhere. Foot and mouth now hits Norfolk. Time to go veggie?


"Old Codger" wrote in message
news:fmeie3hhk4apaten17hb4ddur1f085ssie@4ax.com...
> Foot and mouth hits Norfolk
> http://tinyurl.com/yux6af
> PETER WALSH
> 12 September 2007 17:21
>
> A three kilometre exclusion zone has been set up around a farm in
> Norfolk only hours after initial tests confirmed a new outbreak of
> foot and mouth in Surrey.

As far as I'm aware, the only reason there's mass hysteria regarding F&M is
because the animals who contract the disease lose weight and thus, value.
Apparently, the disease is not dangerous to humans - it's all down to money.

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Baroness Edwina Frogbucket