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Thu 04 Apr 2009Minister says animal burials restricted and must be licensed
DEAD ANIMALS cannot be buried on farms except in exceptional circumstances and only under licence, according to the Minister for Agriculture. Brendan Smith was responding yesterday to calls from the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) to allow farmers to deliver their animals to rendering plants, hunts and kennels and to allow burials in remote areas designated for the purpose.
The farming organisations have been angered by the removal of a subsidy in the Budget which covered most of the charges of disposing of dead animals through rendering plants since 2000.
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