----- Original Message ----- From: "David Cragg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 9:36 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] bird flu and defra
> On our local news they mentioned that defra were transporting the (dead) > birds from Norfolk to Staffordshire for disposal. They did a similar thing > with dead cattle in the foot and mouth and some lorries drove along > dripping onto the roads! Now it's dead turkeys for a good hundred mile > trip through the countryside and just hope these lorries don't get > involved in any accidents tipping turkeys all about! You might wonder why > the long trip when a short trip would be more sensible but that is defra > organisation for you. They give the impression that they love to waste > money - as much as possible and they know they can always get more from... > The news report that I heard about this item called the disposal place a 'specialist', which would seem to me to indicate that there are not that many such places. Also the report mentioned that the birds were being transported in 'sealed containers'. Not that I am in any way defending Defra, but one should avoid sensationalising these things, in case one gets offered a job as a tabloid journalist. > Anyway the birds are taken to Cheddleton in Staffs as in the Cheddleton > on the Caldon canal. At the moment locals are complaining that there is no > information or extra protection for houses near the works and no sign of > exclusion zones round the works. But if one was put in would it affect > boating on the Caldon? Would, for example, given the police checks on > boats passing through London, there be police boarding all boats to search > for free range chickens or any other stuff that us weird bargees might > have stashed away? Keeping chickens on a boat is not unheard-of. Dorothy
