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Tue May 15, 2001 - Updated at 05:22 AM
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May. 14, 2001. 07:46 AM
Eco-terrorists linked to foot-mouth outbreak
British, U.S. farm groups say these groups can't be ruled out
MAX NASH/AP
FARM DUTY: A police officer guards a sealed-off farm in England
during the height of the crisis in March.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Eco-terrorists may be behind the rash of
foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks across the globe, two prominent
agriculture leaders warned today.
The heads of both the U.S. and British farming groups said opponents
to intensive forms of agriculture could not be ruled out as the
source of disease outbreaks.
Ben Gill, president of the United Kingdom's National Farmers' Union,
in Canberra for a farmers' conference, said Australia should
maintain its tough quarantine measures because of the threat of
eco-terrorists.
''There's no doubt foot-and-mouth spread to the U.K. illegally and,
unfortunately, we cannot rule out eco-terrorism,'' he said.
''The last thing you would want to do is ease your quarantine rules
in Australia. If you can find a way to further tighten them, then do
it.''
The head of the U.S. Farm Bureau, Bob Stallman, confirmed last week
his organization had begun talks with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation into possible eco-terrorist activity.
Stallman said there were activists encouraging the introduction of
foot-and-mouth into the United States to protest against intensive
agriculture.
A rash of foot-and-mouth outbreaks have been recorded across the
globe over the past three years, most linked to the Asian strain of
the disease.
Gill said Australia would have to contend with increasingly militant
green splinter groups which would stop at nothing to undermine
existing agricultural practices.
''The pressures of the green groups are intense in Europe, and what
I understand, building here in Australia,'' he said.
Australia immediately increased its quarantine restrictions when the
foot-and-mouth outbreak erupted in Britain in February.
Tougher inspections at ports and airports, and bans on meat,
livestock and used agricultural equipment were introduced.
Gill said he would campaign to have Australia's quarantine laws put
in place in Europe.
''I have to say I wish we had your standards in Europe,'' he told
reporters.
Millions of animals have been slaughtered in Britain in an attempt
to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.
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