Media Coverage
This section provides external links from the media about the allegations over the foot and mouth outbreak

Media Coverage on the National Demonstration held on 8th April 2001

BBC: "Chinese restaurant 'not disease source'" (15 Apr 2001)
The Telegraph: "Chinese hit by backlash from 'racist' rumours" (13 Apr 2001)
This Is London: "Home in the heart of Soho" (9 Apr 01)
The Guardian: "Hopes raised as figures for new cases stay stable" (9 Apr 01)
The Independent: "New cases raise fears that virus has spread by wind" (9 Apr 01)
The Times: "Chinese protest scapegoat claims" (9 Apr 01)
This Is London: "Chinese are not to blame - Brown" (9 Apr 01)
The Telegraph: "We don't blame Chinese, says Brown" (9 Apr 01)
ITN: "Brown's cull plea to farmers " (8 Apr 01)
BBC LondonLive: "Chinese Community protest foot-and-mouth link" (8 Apr 01)
The Independent: "Maff's 'Chinese restaurant' theory doesn't stand scrutiny" (8 Apr 01)
The Independent: "Farmers'undermining' government foot and mouth strategy" (8 Apr 01)
The Independent: "Chinese stirred into action by racist smears and slanders " (7 Apr 01)
The Independent: "Once again, we are an easy target and a convenient scapegoat" (7 Apr 01)

Newspaper Coverage of the Chinese Source of Foot and Mouth

The Telegraph: "An epidemic of untruths" (12 April 01)

The Guardian: "Takeaway your stereotypes" (4 Apr 01)

The Evening Standard: "Danger meat smuggled into London" (28 Mar 01)

The Independent: "Farm virus 'lay undetected for months " (3 Apr 01)

The Independent: "Illegally imported meat seized by health officials, Chinatown" (3 Apr 01)

The Independent: "Northeast's Chinatown reacts angrily ..." (28 Mar 01)

The Telegraph: "'Illegal meat' link to epidemic" ( 27 Mar 01)

Local Newcastle paper: "Farmer at centre of crisis speaks out"( 27 Mar 01)

Daily Mail: "Blaming Pigswill is Smokescreen" (27 Mar 01)

The Guardian: "Smuggled Meat Blamed" (27 Mar 01)

The Times: "Smuggled Meat Blamed for Epidemic" (27 Mar 01)