While we're on the topic......

BSE: The slaughter is stomach churning, but nessasary. What was not nessasary was the root of it all. The animals contracted the disease through mans greed for money
How? by feeding the animals (herbivores!!) there own species back to them in ground bone meal! Why do this? faster weight gain, less waste, cheaper!..... well obviously it wasn't! Not only Germany was affected: Britain, Ireland, Italy, alot of Europe had/ has cases! Not all farmers used these feeding practises, some were "caught" by buying in infected stock unknowingly, and sometimes internationally. It is a sad state of affairs.

Foot & Mouth: Disease happens, ok I have to accept this, but it's the handling of the situation that got me. Thank God, we didn't get more than one case in the Republic. But I have to say it was hard to take seeing the tipper truck in Britain offloading the many carcises. I cried. I also cried when seeing a report on BBC of a flock of sheep being targets for the people(Army) supposed to be putting them to sleep humanly in Wales! The BBC showed an amateur video of this, and what got me was one particular ewe wasn't killed first time, had to be caught, wrestled and then shot again, while her lamb was frantically jumping around her. Who ever "he" was he needs help! Here we go on the cruelty thing again. So I must say: I just done see the"why?" of it.

Spencer, nice quote! Very apt, very brilliant.....very true!