1. My apologies, I actually understated the real cost of Prof. Neil Ferguson's FMD (Foot & Mouth) disastrous "modelling" in 2001. "12,000,000 animals (Meat & Livestock Commission stats.) were slaughtered but that did not include lambs at foot, aborted lambs, calves or piglets..."

2. Further, 10’s of thousands of chickens were slaughtered in the early months on welfare grounds apparently. 88% of all animals slaughtered had not contracted FMD (DEFRA).

3. "Great Orton airfield was used to slaughter sheep under the (voluntary Cull); that was anything but voluntary, and farmers not participating were ruthlessly threatened. There was only one mild case of FMD, recorded from the thousands of blood tests done at Great Orton (DEFRA)

4. One human being was killed by a CBI, captive Bolt Instrument at Great Orton (Accident).

5. There was a travelator that ran from the slaughter tent at Great Orton to the graves. This ran 16 hours a day transporting “dead” young lambs. Slaughter men working there told me that many of the lambs were buried alive.

6. The man that advised Blair during this fiasco was, as many will know, Prof. Ferguson of Imperial College. He was sacked by DEFRA late on during the epidemic but the damage had been done! Prof Ferguson was awarded an OBE in 2002 for his work during FMD 2001

7. Thank you to Mike Robinson of @ukcolumn for the update.