WHEN is the media going to refrain from trying to increase their sales by scare-mongering headlines: Chicken Can Kill!

We read there is a 'deadly' flu virus in Thailand which, as they say, is related to the growing of poultry.

Britain is gripped by a new food scare over chicken imported from Thailand. If it is not chicken it is beef, pork, eggs, milk, salmon etc. I am beginning to wonder what next for the British farmer and grower through no fault of our own!

Thanks a bunch Mr Blair for importing all this darned rubbish from overseas, especially third world countries.

Other countries in or out of the EU do not always comply with the strict rules for growing meat and veg as UK farmers and growers have to.

I have been growing poultry for more than 40 years and have to comply with stringent rules regarding the rearing and growing these birds to a very high standard. My farm is visited through the year for a government official to audit my poultry and housing conditions etc to comply with the Farm Assured Poultry scheme for poultry to be sold from my premises for humans.

This strict code should be registered and applied throughout the world for the sake of good husbandry towards not only the livestock, but the prevention of such alien viruses.

Choose meat wisely, preferably meat stamped 'British Grown' or with the little 'red tractor' logo on the wrapper and you can't go far wrong.

Mr Blair, this is surely a wake-up call for you to eradicate further damaging reports caused through livestock which have not been grown to the same high standards as we the British farmer and grower have to adhere to.

MARGARET R BEVAN,

Llanellen, Abergavenny.