Oh, wait, it's DEFRA, they'll go with not-annoying-the-farmers approach rather than the slightly harder let's-tell-the-farmers-the-truth approach.
Like they did when they unnecessarily slaughtered several million cattle over a nonexistant chance of a Foot and Mouth epidemic back in 2000? Yup, the farmers weren't annoyed by that in the slightest.
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Date: 2007-Oct-30, Tuesday 11:00 (UTC)Like they did when they unnecessarily slaughtered several million cattle over a nonexistant chance of a Foot and Mouth epidemic back in 2000?
Yup, the farmers weren't annoyed by that in the slightest.