The Silence of Green

“Mass murder! It’s a mass murder!”, one of the farmers questioned by Andreas HORVATH cries out in desperation. At the beginning of 2001, foot-and-mouth disease was headline news on television and in the press. Images of burning pyres piled high with carcasses of dead animals provoked shock waves around the world. A mass hysteria emerged and Britain’s farming industry reeled from the shock-never to fully recover.