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To: bobby beara who wrote (481)	4/23/2001 3:50:16 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 1735

Things are beginning to heat up in the UK countryside... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BREAKING NEWS: Health officials are stressing that the human form of foot-and-mouth is "mild" and usually clears up within weeks of contracting it. Call for use of napalm in foot-and-mouth battle The Government may consider using napalm to dispose of animals slaughtered over the foot-and-mouth outbreak. Labour MP Tam Dalyell had suggested to the Commons that it may be more effective than pyres. Environment Minister Michael Meacher said he would be prepared to look into its use. Mr Dalyell, Labour MP for Linlithgow had asked whether the Government had been in touch with the Nevada Department of Agriculture at Reno or the Louisiana State Veterinary Service at Baton Rouge who have experience of the use of napalm. Speaking during exchanges on the Rural Taskforce and the foot-and-mouth outbreak, he said: "Napalm will dispose of carcasses in 60 minutes, where pyres take three days. Because of the lack of vaporising effect of napalm, you don't get the by-products, the dioxins, that may arise from the burning of sleepers or old tyres. "Isn't this a matter that should be considered rather urgently and is the reason why it has not been considered that there are overtones of Vietnam which might not be acceptable to the public." Mr Meacher: "I take the point you are making. "I have no inhibitions in regard to Vietnam about the whole question of napalm. I am certainly prepared to look at it, and if in the, I hope, rapidly reducing number of fires in open fields, if that can make a contribution I am certainly happy to take it on board." ananova.com pearly