How British farmers were left ‘staring into the abyss’ after the foot-and-mouth export ban

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A 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

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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