Originally from: coleen
                        
Just a pity Joyce that fmd did not open the eyes and ears of the people who's livings are going to be taken away. It would seem (yet again) that they cannot or perhaps they do not want to envisage a Country without animals and farmers to look after those animals. It very much reminds me of the miners – when they thought that we could never ever run a Country without our own mined coal and thousands of miners mining it! Look what we have now, imported coal. Maybe the economics on that issue do add up, and to import is cheaper. But to destroy 40 million sheep on a lie – then what next? Do the farmers think they will get the pay outs that fmd was providing, and then they will be able to just go back out and restock. Yet again as with fmd – where is their wake up call going to come from?
The few who did fight last time, cannot even do that this time round. Anyway there was not enough of us to make a difference – it would need every sheep owner to stand and refuse. They would only do that if they had the full facts, and like you say – there are plenty out there peddling the myths.

Coleen