F&M is no threat to humans and eating animals infected with it would be no worse than eating a human or dog that had a cold. (For my own part I am happy to avoid eating all species, infected or not.) BSE on the other hand can transmit to humans as variant CJD.

Can't say I'm looking forward to the elections, such is the miserable choice, but equally I can't see a problem either. Mass meetings, hustings, heckling etc sadly fell by the wayside years ago, and most local campaigning/canvassing is totally eclipsed by a few soundbites on the news at ten. And thanks to new legislation since last time, we can all have a postal vote, just for the asking.