JUST as you thought this crisis was over, it all blows up again.
Last week minister David Miliband assured us all is under control, he managed the situation well and his actions were appropriate.
We now know that he got it all wrong.
Whilst he was trying to lay the blame at the door of migratory birds, we now know the truth that this virus was almost certainly brought in from Hungary.
At first I believed the company was importing live birds from Hungary, but I now believe that rats were the means by which the virus was able to transfer from the meat processing plant to the turkey rearing buildings.
As an ex-farmer I am appalled to think that turkey meat was being imported from Hungary and then being sold to an unsuspecting public as the best of British meat.
We must be appalled at the scale at which this turkey meat is being imported at the same time as our present enfeebled government lambasts this country’s farmers for producing food surpluses.
The complicity between the government and the company is something which is emerging slowly, but we probably will never be told the full truth, as the Tony Blair philosophy of life is the general public should believe what he spins to them rather than the actual truth.
It was exactly seven years ago that the foot-and-mouth crisis was emerging, but we have never been told the full truth this fiasco.
In those days the government believed there was a bureaucratic solution, but it was wrong. I now wonder if history is repeating itself with the bird flu crisis.
I shall not be unduly worried because I am not a fan of turkey twizzlers; nor will I shed a tear if supermarkets are left with their shelves full of unwanted turkey products as consumers opt for higher quality food products which have been bred and reared in this country.
