Originally from: chris stockdale
                        
Dear Mike,
a lot of points raised in your last letter. Am still harvesting, so briefly
-- surely none of us are naive enough to expect this Govt. to now stand up and admit that their management was incompetent and worse! Realistically,how can they -- such would be tantamount to resigning on mass and handing the country over to Ian Duncan Smith, a Lib-Dem /Green coalition or similar?
 What I find most alarming is that these 'victors' will now write the History, including the strongly worded message that 'culling is the way to go', so that the next time it will happen again. This, and my committment given to my slaughtered livestock reinforced by daily contact with the few of their progeny which survived, is what is motivating me to see that good Contingency plans are both put in place and rehearsed, obviously including modern Diagnostics, an established 'Decision Tree' similar to that operated the Americans, advanced Vaccinology and post-vaccination Differentiation tests.
 Unfortunately, it is difficult to make or propose changes if one does not know from what; nor is it easy to establish fault-lines in management structures if what happened is obscured. The Truth, temporarily leaving aside it's spiritual significance if such is possible, is our best guide to future Policy, as without knowledge of it, we must forever re-discover the wheel -- a problem particularly inherently with F.M.D. control Policy, as History has already shown us.
 I agree that to seek revenge is folly in the highest degree, ensuring nothing but bad karma for that seeker. However, to seek the Truth in all that one does is part and parcel of Biodynamic farming and to deny my cattle access to the Fruits of that process is to deny the very real sense in which they, their manure, their milk, hides, flesh and their suffering contribute as co-workers in our collective management of the Planet, and to set at nought the concept of progressive farm management..
 Yours sincerely and with best wishes,
 Chris. Stockdale.