Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-04-03-Speech-2-169"
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"Mr President, Mr Byrne has given us a very clear statement this afternoon in an area that was requiring more clarity. In Cumbria, where the outbreak was spreading out of control, we told the farmers that they would have to slaughter even healthy animals in a preventative cull. They reluctantly agreed to comply with that request and the slaughter of healthy animals has begun. Now we appear to be changing direction and saying at a time when we have not enough veterinary resources to deal with the backlog of animals requiring slaughter, with the huge backlog of animals requiring disposal burial, we are saying now that we wish to diversify and use these vets for a mass vaccination policy.
This sort of dithering has been an element which has been obvious throughout this whole disease. To say that the UK government has been decisive is a nonsense: it dithered over whether to bring in the army. It dithered whether to use incineration instead of burial. Now it is dithering over vaccination. Let me say this afternoon that vaccination is not the right way forward. After what Mr Byrne has told us, if we use the vaccination policy we effectively bring down the curtain on our agricultural economy. We would close off the export trade for all these products from animals in the areas where vaccination had been used.
Vaccination is not a sensible way forward just now during the epidemic. We know that in Saudi Arabia they have used the vaccination policy for the last two years. They have nevertheless had six outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease. We know that when you vaccinate cattle it can take up to 14 days before they develop immunity. In the case of pigs it can take 7 days. During that time they can spread the virus. I would pose one question to Mr Byrne before I finish. He was talking about whole areas of Holland, France and Ireland where restrictions will be lifted. Will similar restrictions be lifted in areas of the United Kingdom not affected by the disease?"@en1
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