The enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test, frequently used to test HIV and now foot and mouth disease (FMD), is notoriously unreliable. The test is conducted using a sample of the patient ...
If I were a cow, I would have been shot last week. ...
Albert Howard, an Honorary Fellow of the Imperial College of Science, was formerly the Director of the Institute of Plant Industry and Agricultural Adviser to States in Central India and Rajputana ...
Until last Monday, 12 March, Wynn Gittens was a hardworking dairy herd farmer, farming 200 cattle and 1350 sheep at Ucheldre Farm, Brooks, near Welsh pool, Wales. But in the space of a single day, ...
As I live in Japan, foot and mouth hardly affects me, but it bothered me that nothing I read in the press of the government's response to the outbreak, or the public and press response to what was ...
The Soil Association has recently come out against the government's policy on FMD. Here is the edited crux of the argument for an alternative put forward by Soil Association president Patrick Holf ...