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"We can all agree on one thing: farmers everywhere in the European Union certainly did not need this disease to come upon them at this moment in time, and certainly the farmers in the United Kingdom did not need it at all.
But it is at a time like this that you realise how mobile animals are. You need only look at the map and see the distances they travel. Mrs Doyle referred to the scare in my home county in my constituency in Northern Ireland. We had hoped that we would get away with it unscathed but it shows just how dangerous and highly contagious this disease is, through the way animals move. At this time those animals have all been tested. I have been in touch with my local veterinary department. There is cooperation with the government of the Republic of Ireland and indeed a perimeter has been set which happens to straddle the border between the two areas.
I should like to ask the Commissioner one question. He referred to intensive farming. Would he not agree with me that the hype being put forward in the media about intensive farming/factory farming has nothing to do with all this? In fact in 1967 when the last outbreak occurred, the type of farming we have now did not exist. Would he not agree with me that this is the case?"@en1
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