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October 27, 2001.
News
Release
Risk
assessment delay hurting your business – tell your MP!
The
Countryside Action Network is calling on proprietors and staff of rural
business hit by the Government’s delay in publishing the risk
assessment for the resumption of hunting to write to their MPs now.
C.A.N.
spokesman, Janet George, said: “DERA
has been sitting on this risk assessment for nearly two months and this
is adding to the uncertainty. Many
rural businesses, that have been suffering the effects of FMD for many
months, are struggling to survive. For some, it is too late. The delay
in the resumption of hunting is adding to their woes.”
Riding
schools, livery yards, rural hotels and pubs, farriers, feed merchants
and many more were relying on the start of the hunting season to get
them through the winter. With
no idea of when that will be, many are in desperate trouble.
Janet
George said: “No-one
involved in hunting would do anything to risk more FMD outbreaks.
But it is worth remembering that the hunting associations imposed
their own voluntary bans on hunting a week before the Government stopped
livestock movements and markets. If
the Government had responded to the first reported case as quickly as
hunting did, the disease would have been contained many months ago.”
Businesses
that are relying on the income from hunts and hunt supporters and those
who have unfortunately lost their jobs as a result of the continued
difficulties and uncertainties are asked to write to their MPs now.
Email: enquiry@countrysideaction.net
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