Originally from: Joyce
                        
"Whilst vaccination can be a useful weapon it remains bedevilled by grey areas, which is why a slaughter policy will remain the main tool for combating foot and mouth.
In any future outbreak, the UK government will be bound, by EU law, to consider vaccination, but this does not mean an end to the slaughter-and-burn scenes we saw nightly on our televisions during the peak of the 2001 epidemic."

or from warmwell:

Sept 30 – Oct 6 ~"Emergency vaccination is moved to the forefront of control measures instead of being the last resort. The new legislation is a true reform." David Byrne

So which is right? I seem to remember the UK government considered vaccination many times in 2001.