See post 13 above
perhaps someone who can/does listen to said programme… can give us a resumé ??
Personally, the only foodstuffs we’ll take into UK will be Dates and Pruneaux d’Agen.
At 5.45am guess we have missed it.
Its the draconian measures of kill everything I find upsetting. Just with any virus on any spiecies, not all will catch it, that might mean finding some who have stronger immunity and fostering those?
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I so agree. Dutch Elm, Foot and Mouth, Mad Cow disease - kill everything, so we never find the one with a glimmer of resistance - how are they different? Why are they different? Makes me weep.
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I think they are all variations of Dutch Cow’s Foot Disease.
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A cow with clogs on going clip clipady clip on the stairs. 
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That reminds me of an OU exam I once sat. I think it was at the end of the Science Foundation Unit.
The course had covered Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human version of Mad Cow disease. The course textbook has based on very recently out of date theories and during the year of the course the newspapers had been full of the news of the new breakthrough in combatting the disease as it had been proven that it was not viral. The multiple choice exam paper had a note attached. The note told us that if there was question on CJD we were to answer in accordance to what we had learned from the textbook and to ignore the more up to date information.
And we propagate the message for another generation. It is getting to be a wonder how humans have survived this long.
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slight thread drift… but this reminds me of the English Teacher at a local UK secondary school, who explained to me quite seriously…
" I can’t correct their spelling mistakes, it would depress them too much!!"
and this was for kids about to do their GCE’s… aaaargh
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You clearly had the same demented childhood as I did. 
Novelty records for children have a lot to answer for. Clive Dunn’s “Grandad” traumatised a generation.
The original horror was recorded by a Sixties crooner named Ronnie Hilton, but here is the much less unhip version by David Bowie:
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Friends made up the children sitting around Clive
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You mean they weren’t real? 
Real enough, we meet up every now and again. 
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Foot and mouth is one of the most contagious organisms on earth.
Culling is, therefore, necessary to ensure that all virus is eliminated.
You can still hear the Farming Today programme on BBC Sounds.
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