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...Officials in britain were too busy acting decisively to dwell on such details. Many rural schools were closed and national parks cordoned off. The transporting of livestock was banned, which meant butcher shops had trouble finding meat to sell-and prices soared by up to 50% for what they could locate. Horse racing was suspended for seven days. The Labour government moved quickly to assuage rural misery in what will probably be an election year, picking up the entire tab for all slaughtered animals and offering a further $225 million in compensation to farmers. On Friday the government relaxed...
...Since the discovery of the first foot-and-mouth cases at the Essex slaughterhouse, the E.U. banned all imports of British livestock and meat products. But Britain's ban on transporting animals meant there weren't any to export. Indeed, across England, once-bustling market villages turned into ghost towns as commerce slowed, farm families stayed home and people from the cities stopped venturing into the countryside...
...months. Also, vaccines contain inactivated viruses and the inoculated animals can pass the disease on. It is also difficult to tell the difference between a vaccinated animal and one that actually has the disease, since both show signs of the virus in tests. For this reason, many countries ban the import of vaccinated livestock. To eradicate the disease once it strikes, all infected animals-as well as those suspected of infection-must be destroyed and all locations that might harbor the virus, such as farms, abattoirs and markets, must be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected...
...snow emergency citywide parking ban is also in effect...
...right-wingers who envision a shopping mall in every town. To these people, heritage and culture are something to be packaged and marketed. The English have the unfortunate knack of preserving those aspects of their heritage that should be consigned to history while discarding what should be preserved. A ban on fox hunting may reverse that trend. JON FYNE Shizuoka, Japan...