Science at a distance

These contributions show a conflict between central control and local initiative; laboratory science and ‘field’ science:

…she did all the trillions of paper work and organised the slaughter team, and they arrived and she says, oh I haven"t heard from Page Street yet whether or not I can kill them. So they waited three hours and they were querying it, and she was sort of saying look, they"ve no skin and they"re blistering and they"re septic, oh no they said, you"ll have to wait another hour, so she put the phone down and she said, ‘get on with it’.

(Health and veterinary ,diary, 2002)

The older vets who were round from the "60s, they just knew that was the only way to stop it. [. . .] early on you"ve just got to get on and cull to stop it.

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