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Letter: Slaughter numbers

Published 15 June 2002

From G. Faulkner

Your article on foot and mouth vaccination (11 May, p 12) would have had more impact if you had quoted the figure of 10 million plus animals that the British government now admits were slaughtered, rather than the figure of 4 million you cited.

Somerton, Somerset

Issue no. 2347 published 15 June 2002

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