Jiglu: Farmtalking: Discussion: Re: RE: I COULD HAVE STOPPED FMD

Originally from: Farmtalking

Mary and Norm are quite right!

The Bobby Waugh Trial was reported daily on Farmtalking and picked up and copied elsewhere on other websites and in the media. Those reports remain on the Farmtalking website as Norm has indicated.

The Western Morning News and the news media in the UK are well aware of the existance of farmtalking and I've no doubt of Warmwell too!

However, journalist who were around at the time may well have moved on and those writing today are quite unaware of events in the past and are often unwilling to thoroughly reseach them!

I'm sure none of us fall into that category!

Author wrote:
March 2 – 6 ~ Jim Dring says "I could have prevented FMD" – but could he?
A document, apparently submitted to the Anderson Inquiry into the foot and
mouth crisis, is the subject of two articles today, one in the Western
Morning News and the other in Farmers Weekly. The statement, by the MAFF vet
Jim Dring, is headed "To: The Anderson Inquiry" – but no mention of it was
made in the inquiry's report.
It will be remembered by many readers of warmwell that Bobby Waugh claimed
that on confirmation of FMD being present on Friday 23rd February, Jim Dring
went into one shed and stated that certain pigs had been infected for four
weeks. When told that this would have taken the date of infection to the
time that he carried out his annual inspection on 24th January, Bobby Waugh
claimed that Jim Dring changed his estimation to three and two weeks.
The news articles quote Jim Dring apparently apologising for his own
negligence in renewing Waugh's swill feeding licence. In fact, he is
indirectly asserting that Waugh's farm was the index case for the outbreak
and that Bobby Waugh was to blame for the outbreak. However unpleasant
conditions on Burnside Farm farm were, it was never suggested, even at the
trial, that Bobby Waugh somehow introduced FMD into the UK. No evidence has
come to light to prove the origin of the 2001 outbreak – even though Waugh
is widely accepted as the culprit.
During Bobby Waugh's trial, Mr Jeremy Stuart-Smith QC asked Mr Dring to
explain how he had continued to licence the premises, and to explain how he
had continued to file his six-monthly reports, over a number of many years,
by 'ticking' the box marked, 'Satisfactory' ...(
http://www.warmwell.com/may11waugh.html) Mr Dring himself authorised the
feeding of unprocessed swill to Bobby Waugh's pigs.
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From: "Poppa Crispin" <...>
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Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:14 PM
Subject: [farmtalking] RE: I COULD HAVE STOPPED FMD
Sorry Pat/Everyone, I know it was a traumatic time for all involved but
this vet Dring is being used (again) to deflect the true cause of FMD. Let
me say I do not know the answer either but looking at the evidence in
hindsight (20/20) I believe he is liar!

Read these reports again and without bias against the Waughs who had been
pig farmers and around pigs for over fifty years.

http://131.104.232.9/animalnet/2002/5–2002/animalnet_may_9–2.htm
http://farmtalking.org/news-waugh-9&10.htm
http://farmtalking.org/news-waugh-11.htm
Defence expert denies Waughs guilt and criticised vet/Maff conclusions.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/army42901.cfm
http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles3/footmouth15.html
http://www.faringdon.org.uk/WARMWELL/inbox.html
Hoo Roo
Norm
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