The BSE disaster has cost every man, woman and child in the UK £177 each in compensation to farmers alone. This would have been very much more if we hadn't obtained funding from our European partners.
When another health disaster, Thalidomide, happened the cost for compensation was borne by the drug manufacturers that caused it.
Surely it would be logical to ask for recompense from the perpetrators of this epidemic namely the British feed manufacturers involved.
Perhaps also Tory Party Central Funds as it was their government which colluded with them (in agreeing to a reduction in heat treatment etc).
MIKE SMITH
St Andrews Close
Wroughton
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