Originally from: Burkie
                        
Dear Frances and Friends: I just can't sit here and not share with you some rather important available information.

To exert myself into your woes isn't really fair. I have always been critical of the cull....in addition, I have been critical of your vets and your DEFRA/MAFF people.

What I am so sad to share with you is the fact that I think you've been "had" by some others, too....and these people are in very high places within the government of your country.

Here is a website I want you to take a look at, please.

I'll let you draw your own conclusions. It has to do with who supplies the meat you eat....where it comes from....and more.

This is just a start....call it another "Hint" to find the answers you are seeking, today.

Here the website address:

http://www.angliss-international.com/flash/products.htm

I would strongly urge you to take all the time you need to note any other names associated with this firm....but this map, graphically starts the process.

Best Regards from Kansas.

Burkie

Author wrote:
Dear Coleen, I could not have put it better myself. First step, Jane, is some sign of regret, remorse, admission, apology ??None of these things are forthcoming. The image of Tony Blair,defiant, unapologetic yesterday to me epitomises this stance. He "would do it all again, wouldn't change a thing " ! Its exactly the same attitude, that they did nothing wrong and, therefore, have nothing to apologise for. The arrogance is quite simply, breathtaking. isn't it ? In the instance of the management, excuse me, mismanagement, of the FMD epidemic, it is hard to see that there are not victims and those guilty of inflicting all the unecessary pain , grief and anguish upon them. More often than not, you can see faults on both sides, we say, its half a dozen of one and six of the other. Not in this case. You might just as well say that the Jewish people were guilty of being Jews and that Hitler and the Nazis had no choice. I am for turning the other cheek, but first there has to be a reckoning as a platform to begin to establish a new relationship, and, as Coleen says, its not there.Margaret Beckett said there were lessons to be learnt, you would have to agree with that ? The one we learnt, the hard way, is that we cannot trust these people as far as we could throw them ! What have they learnt ? That they need new legal powers to do what they did illegaly last time ? I understand, and I do not know if it is true or not, but it would not surprise me at all, that the simulated FMD exercise in Scotland was conducted as per 2001, no new technology, no new ideas. Do any of us know if this is a fact or not , anyone out there to give us a glimmer of hope that something, anything, constructive has been learnt ? Still we wait, Jane, and, no, sorry, we cannot bring ourselves to trust. That is truly why the vets, especially the ones paid for by the state are having such dificulty in operating. A certain lack of cooperation is endemic, nobody talks about it but, if you mention Defra or the vets, noses wrinkle and eyes are averted le

st they give away what is truly felt.