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...Someone will have to pay for this mess, and not just the cows. The European Commission says its budget can cover only a 10% decline in beef sales, which would leave governments to prop up national markets on their own. That means a higher bill for grumpy, tofu-eating taxpayers. Which is why those European politicians who ignored warnings about the threat of bse and then lied about it are frenetically trying to shift blame for the crisis. French Agriculture Minister Jean Glavany said last month that Britain should be "morally condemned" for spreading the disease on the Continent...
...last decade. Despite the recent rise in the number of bovine cases, the chances of encountering a mad cow on the Continent are tiny: since 1990 the incidence of bse in cows in Europe is fewer than 2,000, compared to 180,000 in Britain. And yet across Europe, beef consumption has plunged 27% in the last three months; in Germany it has been cut in half. This is an epidemic propelled by fear, and governments aren't immune. Ridiculed for their attempts to downplay the threat last year, German authorities last week pledged to buy, slaughter and bury...
...idea is that humans didn't evolve on French fries and ice cream. Instead, survival during our formative years was fueled by eating more meat, which allowed our early ancestors' brains to get bigger than those of other primates. So forget the pasta, and load up on roast beef, these books urge. Your body will thank you later...
...wrote The Paper and carries a W.G.A. MasterCard. "It was like the royal treatment, actually," he said of his screenwriting experience. "They even gave me a small part--and my own dressing room--and I got paid for that too. I can't think of a single beef." You might remember Steve as the critically lauded but hard-to-spot "German Newsperson...
...last decade. Despite the recent rise in the number of bovine cases, the chances of encountering a mad cow on the Continent are tiny: since 1990 the incidence of bse in cows in Europe is fewer than 2,000, compared to 180,000 in Britain. And yet across Europe, beef consumption has plunged 27% in the last three months; in Germany it has been cut in half. This is an epidemic propelled by fear, and governments aren't immune. Ridiculed for their attempts to downplay the threat last year, German authorities last week pledged to buy, slaughter and bury...