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...sheep be destroyed-at least twice as many as the number of animals culled in Britain itself. European Muslims prepared to celebrate the festival of Eid al Adha without its main ritual, the sacrifice of sheep. In distant Thailand, officials even threatened to jail travelers caught bringing in beef or pork from any of the 15 European Union countries. And on Friday came more doleful news there will be no St. Patrick's Day parade in Dublin this year...
...imported from non-E.U. countries. Environmentalists denounced the drive toward intensified, low-cost farming as the culprit. And in Brussels, bureaucrats were warning that they couldn't afford another crisis: the E.U. has already spent $1 billion to bail out farmers suffering from the bse-induced plunge in beef consumption. "If [foot-and-mouth] does spread to the Continent," says Commission spokesman Luc Veron, "the money would be gone before we could write a check...
...global trade in livestock and meat products-the market has grown by an average of 9% a year for the last decade-and one can see why so many farmers seem buffeted by forces beyond their control. Farmers in Britain questioned why the government allows the import of any beef from countries such as Botswana, Brazil and Argentina, where foot-and-mouth is endemic. Says Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association, an organic farming lobbying group: "The globalization of agriculture is presumed to be a good thing, treating food commodities like processed steel and shipping it around the globe...
...easy when rap wars were organized by geography: East Coast vs. West Coast and so on. The apparent beef between tiny sex kittens LIL' KIM and FOXY BROWN is more confusing than the Balkans. New York City police surmise that a shootout last week involving 20 people and five guns occurred after Lil' Kim, left, and her entourage ran into rapper Capone and his entourage outside hip-hop radio station Hot 97. Capone, part of the duo Capone-N-Noreaga, is allied with Foxy Brown, inset, who proved you can rhyme "bitch" with "bitch" on a none too complimentary...
...Whom, then, will the artists complain to? They're still the injured party - even label babies like Britney Spears have a moral claim on the music they make - but next time, instead of scolding their own fans, the next Metallica might want to take their beef to the record companies themselves...