London - Britain has found an incineration plant to deal with 350,000 tonnes of meat and bone meal it has in stock following the scare over the mad- cow disease BSE, farm minister Nick Brown said on Wednesday.
“We actually have the power station,” Brown told reporters after making a speech to the National Farmers Union's annual conference. He described it as being in the constituency of member of parliament Elliot Morley, which a ministry spokesman said was near Scunthorpe, Humberside, in the north of England.
The plant, which would be converted from burning mostly poultry remains, would deal with the stock over two years.
“Of course the stock is going up,” Brown said. “We're paying quite substantial warehousing costs.
The meat was purchased under an array of schemes designed to take beef off the market following the BSE scare.
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