Hoof and Mouth - attn Brits

[hamster8 at hotmail.com]

Foot and mouth barely affects animals.  *There is no crisis 
whatsoever* ... it is just MAFF getting uppitty.

Foot and mouth is no worse for animals than a bad cold for humans.  
They recover after about two weeks.  If we just sit tight and let it 
blow over, it'll be fine.  The problem is that having had f&m, milk 
and meat yields from affected herds decline dramatically.  The reason 
we are slaughtering all our livestock is therefore primarily 
economic.  It would not be profitable to sell recovered meat after 
the disease has died down because there would be a bit less of it - 
ergo this means Arch Commissar Grand Fuhrer Blair (ldr. Puppet Govt. 
of GW Bush & Country) seems to think we need to destroy everything.  
It is ridiculous, it has gotten completely out of hand.  There is 
nothing to worry about.

Just my two things.
Al