annemarie1 : I'm looking for pictures of the old Forest Row Station to display inside.
annemarie1 : II'll be opening a small coffee shop / sandwich bar in the old Coal Marchantt's office, Station Road, Forest Row.
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NigelS : Thanks to the "Arabian Nights" team. I always reckon that our village panto is funnier and more closely in the tradition of panto than many professional productions!
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The Foot and Mouth Virus is a natural phenomenon, and nature has its own way of dealing with it. Only flawed government policy driven by modern pharmaceutical veterinary practice, and the global transportation of meat and livestock has turned it into a crisis.
Nature’s way is for livestock to endure the symptoms (which are no more
severe than flu is for humans). Most animals survive the experience and
benefit from an enhanced natural immunity to any future attack from the
virus, which they pass on to their offspring through natural selective
breeding. Thus the herd is strengthened over time. This was normal
practice, and worked well for farmers during the first 10,000 years
after the agricultural revolution.
Modern pharmaceutical veterinary practice changed all of that during
the middle of the last century under the delusion that it could do
better than nature. This is when the current practice of culling stock
at the first symptom began, and now takes the form of a DEFRA jackboot
stomping through the countryside - to the tune of £8B and 7 million
animals in 2001.
Any O Level biology student could figure out that during the last 60
years since this practice started, our domestic livestock has been
denied the opportunity to develop or pass on natural immunity to
viruses which have become more prevalent due to global transportation
of animal feed, meat and livestock. Consequently we now have a very
weak and vulnerable population of farm animals that collapse like a
pack of cards as soon as a strain of the virus shows up.
To a large extent this problem will be resolved as we come to the end
of the era of cheap oil, when global transportation of animal feed,
meat and livestock become unviable. Then we can return to more secure
localised agriculture once more. But in the meantime someone needs to
blow the whistle on this crazy mass cull policy, and let farmers take
back the control that served them well for 10,000 years.
