Foot and mouth in Germany

[forest of dean redneck 11,664]

Just seen there’s outbreak of foot and mouth in Germany  if it gets over here then it be will spread like hell with the deer population the way it is.

[THE STIFFMEISTER 16,094]

12 minutes ago, forest of dean redneck said:

Just seen there’s outbreak of foot and mouth in Germany  if it gets over here then it be will spread like hell with the deer population the way it is.

I don’t think many on here actually realise the impact this had last time . It’s was f***ing apocalyptic 

[mushroom 13,124]

4 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

I don’t think many on here actually realise the impact this had last time . It’s was f***ing apocalyptic 

Ingrained in my brain! The sight and smell of the huge corpse bonfires. A friends dad double barreled himself because of it, as did many other farmers. 

[THE STIFFMEISTER 16,094]

The town I am from was the epicentre of the outbreak. It was f***ing howling . The way it was carried out , breaking into healthy isolated herds and carting them away , destroying generations of breeding in front of distraught farmers who were remunerated at a fraction of their value at a set price whilst lads were getting 300 quid a day following wagons and brushing up spilled liquid was criminal.

the smell and taste of the air was something that will always stay with me. It was the final straw for many in farming . 

 

17 minutes ago, mushroom said:

Ingrained in my brain! The sight and smell of the huge corpse bonfires. A friends dad double barreled himself because of it, as did many other farmers. 

 

[TOMO 26,368]

Don't worry, Pfizer will roll out a jab so we don't all get it

[forest of dean redneck 11,664]

28 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

I don’t think many on here actually realise the impact this had last time . It’s was f***ing apocalyptic 

Yeah heartbreaking to see the pics in paper . Talking to people that kept livestock on moors and in the forest and they lost all the generations of breeding that  knew where the resource's were and then to have to start up again buying in new stock that didn’t have a clue where to go to find feed water shelter etc .

it could be the end of many a farmer here then the land will get rewilded or built on , the uk agriculture will go same way as the manufacturing industry at this rate then we will be to reliant on food imports , I wonder if it should of stayed as small farms with animals taking to local markets ,slaughtered  then end up in local butchers etc like years ago?.

[jukel123 8,295]

It was horrific. The whole of the Lake District stunk of charred  burgers as did Dumfies and Galloway. There were mass burial pits  built by the army. I drive by some and always remember  the horror.I knew farmers who were broken by it and it hit farmers children hard. But others who were disappointed their farms werent hit  because the compensation levels were very high. I know slaughtermen who  bought new cars and deposits on houses with the money they were paid  the government . They were working stupid hours 24/7. But they were traumatised by it and said they would never want to live through it again.

As Stiff says it started in Longtown mart. Pigs had eaten discarded sandwiches from an airline of a country already infected with it.  The sarnies should never have been on british soil. I can't remember  if the guilty party was punished

Forest is dead right. If we get it again, we could possibly say goodbye to our status  as a non infected country because deer are at plague proportions.

However I think I remember it being said at government level that they would never go down the cull route again and would opt for vaccination. I hope so.

Edited January 11 by jukel123

[eastcoast 4,159]

Jesus Christ. I come on here in the hope of seeing a nice picture of a Jack Russell but it's all doom and gloom. We are an island. Whatever little faith I have in the people who are tasked with protecting this island just because it happened in Germany should not, and most likely will not, mean that it comes here. 

[WILF 47,291]

I remember it, terrible.

[THE STIFFMEISTER 16,094]

33 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

It was horrific. The whole of the Lake District stunk of charred  burgers as did Dumfies and Galloway. There were mass burial pits  built by the army. I drive by some and always remember  the horror.I knew farmers who were broken by it and it hit farmers children hard. But others who were disappointed their farms werent hit  because the compensation levels were very high. I know slaughtermen who  bought new cars and deposits on houses with the money they were paid  the government . They were working stupid hours 24/7. But they were traumatised by it and said they would never want to live through it again.

As Stiff says it started in Longtown mart. Pigs had eaten discarded sandwiches from an airline of a country already infected with it.  The sarnies should never have been on british soil. I can't remember  if the guilty party was punished

Forest is dead right. If we get it again, we could possibly say goodbye to our status  as a non infected country because deer are at plague proportions.

However I think I remember it being said at government level that they would never go down the cull route again and would opt for vaccination. I hope so.

If it hits again , there’s no compensation most of my pals are saying 

yep , every driver , slaughter man , hired hand was on serious money. 

the smell was the thing I remember mostly , it was everywhere , although I would describe it more as burned bacon than burgers , I was out one night in Carlisle , and it was in all the pubs , the clothes , people absorbed it . There’s was a thin film of grit everywhere in the air in Longtown . It stuck to cars , windows , houses , everywhere . 
 

 

[paul sr 824]

The authorities, will tell us this is an other reason to eat Lab-grown meat . 

 

[WILF 47,291]

3 hours ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

I don’t think many on here actually realise the impact this had last time . It’s was f***ing apocalyptic 

[white van man 3,329]

56 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

If it hits again , there’s no compensation most of my pals are saying 

yep , every driver , slaughter man , hired hand was on serious money. 

the smell was the thing I remember mostly , it was everywhere , although I would describe it more as burned bacon than burgers , I was out one night in Carlisle , and it was in all the pubs , the clothes , people absorbed it . There’s was a thin film of grit everywhere in the air in Longtown . It stuck to cars , windows , houses , everywhere . 
 

 

Remember it well mate. Probably one of the worst thing I had to do whilst serving was work on the foot and mouth outbreak. Building the fire pits, burning the cattle, visiting the poor farmers and seeing their stock being killed pretty much in front of them. Some took their own lives. The smell was what I remember the most. We were living in a 30 man room working shifts so the smell never left. Some people made serious money from it. The slaughter lads used to joke saying they’d earned more by morning tea break than I would get for doing the 12hr shift. Terrible times and I hope it doesn’t make its way over here again.