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Andrew,
Please can you explain how the items [or even which items] in swill carry

FMD virus but we are told that dead animals cannot pass it on? At least that is what I understood when piles of rotting carcases were left about the country.

Joyce

Hi joyce,

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Originally from Blacks;

"The virus can survive in frozen kidneys for 4 months or more. The use of swill containing scraps of meat or bone, or other animal tissue for feeding to pigs is a very important factor in the spread of foot and mouth disease, and because of the number of outbreaks traced to swill, the Ministry of Agriculture imposes a requirement upon those who use swill that it shall be boiled for 1 hour befor being fed."

The ministry claimed that as the pH level changed in decomposing carcasses ths would kill the virus, their theory, not mine, obviously this pH change does not occur in meat preserved for human consumption.

Swill feeding has been the most common cause of new outbreaks of FMD since the slaughter policy was introduced, and the only scource of infection came from outside the UK.

Also from Abigail Woods:

"for over 40 years, Argentina was
sending us infected meat, which via pigswill caused over 50% of all
FMD outbreaks during this time. Meat imports from other infected countries were banned in the '20s, but because the Argentine trade
was so important (at that stage providing 1/3 of our meat supply) and due to substantial British investment in Argentina (we owned a considerable % of the meat packing houses and shipping cos), the government decided to continue the trade. Instead of a ban, administrative arrangements and inpections were introduced to try and stop FMD infected animals leaving the farms and ending up at the meat packing plants for export."