Save our Harriet!

Tuesday 9th January 2007, 12:00AM GMT.

A FAMILY in Gloucester battling to save their pet Jersey cow from slaughter have had their case taken to the House of Commons – and it could even go to the European Union.

Harriet the Jersey cow has been the pet of self-employed builder David Price and his partner Liz Davis from the Forest of Dean in Gloucester since 2000. The problem arose when officials from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said Harriet must be slaughtered because she was born on a farm in Oxford five months after a calf there which developed BSE. However, her owners said Harriet lived a mile away from the infected calf and did not come into contact with it.

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