Smoke fills the sky as cows and sheep are destroyed by an incinerator
at Netherplace farm in Lockerbie, as the foot-and-mouth outbreak
continues to effect Scotland, March 4, 2001. The British Government has
came under fire in the early part of the year, for its handling of the
foot-and-mouth disease, which made the countryside a no-go zone and
triggered warnings of economic collapse for farmers. REUTERS/Jeff J
Mitchell
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