A tree is silhouetted by a large burning pyre of livestock infected by foot-and-mouth disease near Wigton, Cumbria, on 15 April 2001A cow is lowered onto a burning pyre near the Scottish village of Ecclefechan on 21 April 2001.
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Foot-and-mouth pyres created more pollution than all the factories in the UKA government study in April 2001 revealing the scale of emissions raised the fear that farmland would have to remain unused for long after the crisis was over, reports Geoffrey Lean
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Six months after the foot-and-mouth outbreak, farming life began again with first cattle saleFor the Orcadians, the resumption of the weekly cattle mart was more than just a lifeline for business, says Paul Kelbie
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How foot-and-mouth was a disaster for British tourismWith tourism worth £24bn, the industry questioned the wisdom of the draconian measures put in place to combat the spread of the disease. Robert Mendick reports Do you know something we don't? This is the second foot and mouth post you posted? What about SARS? BSE? I love a good retro virus.....
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How British farmers were left ‘staring into the abyss’ after the foot-and-mouth export banA ban on meat, livestock and milk had catastrophic consequences for the UK’s £600m export industry, as Michael McCarthy, Stephen Castle and Nigel Morris reported in 2001
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Where did foot-and-mouth come from? At the time, nobody knewIn 2001, environment editor Michael McCarthy met Paul Cheale, who was facing an expensive cleaning bill after his Essex abattoir became the centre of the outbreak
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‘If the smell can get out, so can the virus’: Stench of foot-and-mouth farms was only the beginningWhen Paul Vallely visited affected farms in March 2001, the piling up of dead animals, left unburied for as long as a week, was just the latest problem for farmers left struggling after the outbreak If memory serves me correct, that was a decent bar👍 truth
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