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One year on - we can look back and laugh . . .
How many DEFRA vets does it take to change a light bulb?
Two: One to rip all the wiring out and the other to explain why
there is no alternative.
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Why did the sheep cross the road?
Because it saw a DEFRA vet coming.
Why did the journalist cross the road?
He was following the sheep in front.
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The Duke of Edinburgh is introduced to a DEFRA vet.
"So what do you do?" he asks
"I kill healthy animals all day"
"And why do you do that?"
"I can't answer that, I just carry out orders from Whitehall"
So the Duke goes over to a high-up DEFRA policy maker.
"Why are you killing all these healthy animals then?"
"We just carry out the policy decisions of the Minister, your
Highness".
So he moves over to Margaret Beckett.
"What's it all about then, all this killing of healthy animals?"
"I just act on the best scientific advice available to me,"
relpies the Rt.
Hon Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Baffled, the Duke turns to Prince Charles.
"What do you think, boy?"
"Father, foot and mouth disease is a mild illness that can
be defeated
effectively and economically by ring vaccination. The DEFRA policy
of
contiguous culling is inhumane and traumatic to animals and farmers
alike;
it is ruining the rural and tourist economies, damaging public health
with
serious pollution of air and water, and is making British agricultural
and
scientific policies the laughing stock of the world. It really is
appalling."
"Well I agree with DEFRA, you wooly-minded-bleeding-heart-liberal-treehugger,"
says the newly enlightened
Duke.
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