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...that she hasn't been busy. Last week, Künast asked local governments to revoke the export permits of two slaughterhouses after it emerged that they had shipped to Britain beef products containing material linked to the spread of bse. She came under fire from Brussels for not closing down the abattoirs entirely...
...nast also took flak for opposing the mass killing of animals to help support beef prices during the bse crisis. But after being lobbied by farmers, suffering from a 50% collapse of beef consumption in just two months, and officials from other countries, she reluctantly agreed to the slaughter. "We were relieved," said Michael Lohse of the German Farmers' Association. "The situation in the stables is a catastrophe...
...nast supports sweeping changes in the E.U.'s costly Common Agriculture Policy, which bases subsidies to beef producers on the number and weight of cows rather than how they are grown. She favors subsidies to farmers who make better environmental use of their land. In any case, she has run into a brick wall in Brussels: France has vetoed any changes to agricultural policy until after its 2002 presidential elections. At home, Künast has been forced to oppose E.U. agriculture chief Franz Fischler's efforts to cut subsidies for farms with more than 90 animals: the move could...
...does not even kill most infected animals. Yet foot-and-mouth disease was arousing anxiety throughout the world last week, and the virus that causes the ailment in pigs, sheep and cattle was closing borders, destroying livelihoods and bringing to a standstill much of the world's trade in beef, pork and lamb...
...alert," said Chuck Lambert, chief economist at the U.S. National Cattlemen's Beef Association as Department of Agriculture inspectors imposed strict checks on goods and passengers arriving from Britain and France. "We have to re-energize our systems and not be lax." From Sydney to Seattle, worried officials banned European meat imports, confiscated sandwiches and decontaminated arriving passengers to prevent inadvertent infection by a disease that, like everything else these days, is going global. Full Story...