Originally from: Ron
                        
I've just been having a discussion with some one who is involved with the fuel protest. Amongst other things I pointed out the ambiguity of the farmer with "Buy British Beef" in the back window of his foreign built vehicle. Also, the lack of support by the farming community for the miners, steel workers, fishermen, and all the others who have been savaged over the last years.

"Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee".

And then, a point struck me, where were all these protesting farmers when the murder of nearly 12 million animals took place in 2001?

It seemed to me that, at that time, most of the organising, the financing and protesting was done by little people, many of whom had little or no connection with farming.

Are not the big sheep breeder/farmers worried about the latest insane pronouncement, the potential murder of 25 million sheep, if BSE is found in one sheep.

Or is it, as in FMD, the compensation cheque cures a lot of pain.

By the way I am being paranoid in thinking that this totally mad theory has two possible sources, a. research funding, and/or b. the animal welfare organisations.

The animal welfare organisations proved in 2001 that they did not regard the mass slaughter of healthy farm animals as a welfare problem. They would like to get rid of them anyway.

I feel belligerent today, Ron.

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The country life is to be preferred,
for there we see the works of God,
but in cities little else but the works of men.