Originally from: Bill
                        
Surely Janet Hughes must look to her lawyers for compensation for what was clearly very bad advice. Lawyers being what they are, (the second oldest profession after prostitution) , take all your money and when the money is gone they slink off like thieves in the night.

What Janet Hughes' lawyers would not have known is MAFF/DEFRA were themselves responsible for the epidemic.

The Institute For Animal Health at Pirbright, The Royal College Of Veterinary Surgeons and MAFF/DEFRA were guilty of gross incompetence for relying on tests that will not work until the animal has been infected for at least 5 days. Cattle in Dumfries and Galloway that showed clinical signs of FMD in November 2000 had tested negative and on the advice of Ministry vets were sent to Cheale Meats for slaughter. That's the probable route the disease took to Bobby Waugh's.

The above allegations have been put to Lord Whitty and Elliot Morley on a number of occasions and they have not uttered a word of denial. (There will of course be a record of the negative tests and the subsequent movement to slaughter of those cattle).

Within the last few weeks a retired Ministry vet has told me the epidemic could have originated from live vaccine tests. He has also told me that although vaccinated cattle were supposed to be incinerated it was common practice to sell them to the meat trade.

This is the modern Britain we live in.

Bill.