Top Veterinarian to Go On With Mass Cull
From Times Wire Reports
Britain’s chief vet brushed aside angry protests from farmers and pledged to push ahead with a mass cull of healthy animals in areas stricken by the foot-and-mouth livestock epidemic sweeping the country.
The government’s chief veterinary officer, Jim Scudamore, spent hours in talks with farmers from Cumbria in northwestern England--one of the worst-affected areas--but was not swayed by their pleas to spare the lives of animals not yet infected.
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