Letter: Wish for quango to shut down

Letter: Re. "Feeding scraps to chickens is banned" (Shropshire Star, December 14). So another quango has flexed its muscles and stopped domestic and catering waste food being utilised to feed farm animals.

I would point out that waste food was fed to farm animals for centuries with no ill-effects.

The Foot and Mouth outbreak in 2001 may or may not have been caused by waste food.

But what caused its unprecedented spread was the fact that farm animals had to be transported half way across the country to be slaughtered, as small local slaughter houses had been closed down (another coup for the quango "Animal Health"?).

So now we have the ludicrous situation that waste food, which could well be fed to farm animals, has to be sent to landfill sites.

Let's just hope that "Animal Health" is one of the quangos being sold off by the government, and then quietly closed down.

J Phillips

Telford