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Slaughtermen earn three times their normal income, vets twice theirs

“When their livestock is infected, farmers routinely get twice the value of their animals, while greedier ones are getting tens of thousands of pounds for cows worth just a few hundred. Across the country there are dozens of foot and mouth millionaires, with the biggest payment going to a farmer in Scotland who received a cheque for more than