The disposal order left the discretion with the department as to how they should be disposed, and in choosing, in choosing to destroy them in the most public, audacious, grotesque manner imaginable, this department showed its utter contempt for farmers and for animal welfare, and took the step that was the most grotesque of all,” the TUV leader said. Yes, they were at your behest Mr Muir, grotesque in the fields at Fivemiletown, the shooting dead, healthy animals that had an outlet in March, had an outlet in other farmers, had an outlet even to be sold for the public good, but the choice that Muir’s butchers took was to shoot them in the manner of which we are all appalled.