NFU president Ben Gill has had some second thoughts about foot and mouth vaccination.
Throughout the crisis, there was opposition from the National Farmers' Union to vaccination as a weapon.
But on a BBC4 radio programme, he urged the Government to undertake research to develop a vaccine or vaccines. And he was critical about cutbacks in research.
Government minister Elliot Morley, who was with MAFF and now the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs throughout the crisis, told the programme he never wanted to see another mass cull.
"Of course there might be things we want to do differently in the future. We are having a big conference in Belgium on things like vaccination for instance."
Updated: 08:55 Thursday, November 22, 2001
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