Many consumers and indirectly, therefore, the country only requires food that is cheap and they are not willing to pay for animal disease safety and surveillance. Only 19 sheep went to Longtown Market of which just six came from the infected group andthe rest is history. The disease had been disseminated through the sheep population with secondaiy fall out for some seven days before the first case and some ten days before the potential for this spread was recognised. At the same time don't forget we normally kill half a million animals a week for meat. Once again I am acting as a spokesman for a large group of people who have earried out an immense amount of work into two huge calamities for the UK agriculture commodity.
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