Re: Composting manure

"0tterbot" <spl@xxxxx> wrote in message
"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

A couple of years ago we had a terrible outbreak of foot and mouth
disease, resulting in very many animals being killed and burnt and
a lot
of farmers being put out of business or even committing suicide.
It was
awful.

pardon my ignorance - but we don't have f&m here (there you are!!),
but i
thought it was soil-borne(?)

It's a virus and all cloven hoofed animals can get it.

In an attempt to prevent a future outbreak of this dreadful
disease it was
decided to ban any feeding of meat or kitchen waste to any animal
or bird
which was normally part of the human food chain, even if that
animal or
bird was a pet. So it's illegal to feed our pet chickens (which we
might
eat and we certainly eat their eggs) with anything which
originates in our
kitchen or other catering establishment. That includes anything,
even
carrot peelings.

however, one thing about legislation is that if it's too extreme or
illogical, people just flaunt it entirely. i can only assume that
the u.k.
is full of people giving kitchen scraps (possibly including cooked
meat or
bones) to their chooks. and i'm wondering why they shouldn't.

The F&M outbreak in the UK was so appalling that it might interest you
to do wome reading on it. Imagine the consequences if it even got
into Oz? All cattle, sheep,goats, camels, alpacas, pigs etc could be
at risk.

As a cattle producer, the UK outbreak was enough to nearly make me
weep. So many good stock and gene lines just down the drain.

And, because the Brit govt paid compensation there were reports that
some unscrupulous farmers who actually cashed in on that and
deliberately infected their herds - imagine what that did to their
uninfected neighbours and to the social fabric of the neighbourhood?

Blanket laws, althoughh unreasonable in application to reasonable
people are the only way to go when there are unreasonable people
potentially involved.


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