MARGARET Beckett told Peter Luff "sadly there is no way to deal with disease of such gravity".

However, there s a much easier way - it's called vaccination.

As to her other comment "the key priority has to be to bring the disease to an end as quickly as possible" clearly that was not the object at all because they have done everything they can to prolong it by not vaccinating .

The reality is that vaccination might bring about a quicker resumption of trade. However, as with BSE, legislation to export is one thing, purchase of the product is entirely another.

ANN WARD,

Throckmorton,

Pershore