The Teacher

The Teacher lives with her husband in a rural area and drives 12 miles along narrow roads to work. There were many pyres along the route:

I drove down here one beautiful spring day, and counted twelve pyres on my way down, twelve!

…early in the morning you see a lot of people in tractors and you, get to the point where you recognise people and I’ve been doing it five years so I recognise everything

And I was stopped like that several times, different farms, and just had to sit there while they got on with stuff. The worst one was later when they had killed them all and then had to pick them up and take them to the different places, because that was just, the stench […] some of those animals were left ten days before they were picked up

…there was a few, good few days where, when it was playtime we just didn’t take the children outside because, of the smell as much as anything. I mean it was making them gag.

I find that really hard that they can hide things for thirty years, I think that’s dreadful. I want that changed. It might be supposedly for, I suppose it’s probably for our own benefit. Not sure that that’s going to wash, might wash if you’re a politician with things to hide, but not if you’re a member of the public who wants to know...

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