Alec and Sandra Lambert, sons Henry and Alec Edward, Fieldgate Farm, Bainbridge.

(Sandra)
"Unfortunately, the whole atmosphere's changed. It's caused a "them" and "us". Anybody who still has animals will tell you. There's a divide, "them" and "us". There's been a terrific rift, and you wonder whether things will ever go back to normal in a community like this. If you look at the situation now, the farmers who have lost their animals are better off. But will that be the scenario in two years time? They no longer have the stress of getting the disease, and they don't have the problem of selling the animals. But they've got a different package of worries. They've got to live on the compensation money Ð no one knows for how long - and then buy new animals. And will they then be able to restock at the level they had before? I don't think anybody will win, whether you're in or out, you're going to suffer. It's caused a lot of unhappiness. There are so many emotions and tension is so high. I don't know how we're going to come out of it Ð this winter well be very testing. But we're not like miners or steel workers Ð the government can't just get rid of us like that. The fields will always be here and the grass will keep growing!".