One very important question is: If animals can be culled and moved from one area to another as carcasses on welfare grounds, why can't they be moved alive?

We know that the infection lives on in dead animals or it could not possibly have entered the country on dried meat, gone through swill processing and infected pigs, as we are led to believe.

There is panic and deep shock in the farming community around Small Dole and Warnham.

The plague is destroying people's lives, eliminating blood lines and could change the face of the land in this country.

-Joan Stanley, address supplied