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UK Parliament Discusses Swill Feeding: February 2004
UK Farmer Sues Government over Swill-Feeding BanIntroduced after 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease Epidemic
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UK Parliament Discusses Swill Feeding: February 2004U.K. pig farmer, Jason Podimore, is taking action against the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) because a swill feeding ban imposed by MAFF (predecessor of DEFRA) caused him financial hardship.The legal action will be heard in the High Court on 2nd October 2003.
The UK Farmers Weekly magazine reports that Robert Persey, a former pig farmer from Devon, is an advisor to Mr. Podimore. They quote Mr. Persey as saying that they aim to establish that MAFF was responsible for the spread of foot-and-mouth by failing in its regulatory duty in that Bobby Waugh, the farmer at Burnside Farm, Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland who was blamed for starting of the 2001 FMD epidemic, was misguidedly given a licence to feed swill.
Swill or garbage feeding to swine is big issue in many countries around the world. There are international biosecurity risk issues around classical swine fever as well as Foot-and-Mouth Disease.
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