5392 x 3547 px | 45,7 x 30 cm | 18 x 11,8 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
2000
Ubicazione:
Cumbria, United Kingdom
Altre informazioni:
FOOT AND MOUTH CRISIS, Cumbria England. Air pollution as burning ashes float out into the night. The odour of burning cows can be smelt for miles around. An epidemic of this flu virus spread rapidly throughout Britain. Millions of clove footed beasts, mainly cattle and sheep were culled, wherever a case of Foot and Mouth disease was found. Driven by economics, export, and international pressure, the government sanctioned the mass extermination of animals across the country, subsidying and paying farmers for every beast that was killed. Beasts suffering from foot and mouth can become immune, but the disease costs farmers more time and money to rear a fat animal, therefore in economic terms, and for international sales, Britain and other European countries chose to kill millions of animals.