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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...
Roberto Gloria has a sign touting Danish beef in the window of his Rome butcher shop, but nobody's buying. Red meat used to make up 60% of his business, he says, but since the first case of "mad cow" disease was discovered in Italy last month, "no one even asks for it. Shoppers are terrorized." Meanwhile, at a bustling organic meat and vegetable market on Paris' Boulevard Raspail, greengrocer Gérard Courvaisier is all smiles. "Business is up 30% here. People suddenly see us as a refuge. The mad cow crisis has been a real shot...
...possibly tainted beef-believed to be the main vector of human infection-by three French supermarket chains. Then came reports that Germany, Spain and Italy, previously untouched by the epidemic, had discovered their first bse cases. "I lost between 50% and 60% of my customers overnight," says Paris butcher Alain Lamarchand...
...Supermarkets have also taken a big hit. In France, where the large chains account for some two-thirds of all beef sales, turnover was down nearly 40% at the end of January. Many local butcher shops, on the other hand, have actually seen an increase in business. Paris' Frédéric Juré, who proudly displays photos and ID certificates of the cows he carves up, is now selling more beef than ever. "'Mad cow' disease has been a great good," he says. "It has breathed life back into the small butcher shops...
...farmed land from 2.6% to 20% within the next 10 years. Even without more government aid, Europe's organic farmers are enjoying flush times. "Every time there's another bse scare, our customers increase," says Richard Counsell, an organic farmer in southwest England. Jean Bessière, an organic butcher at Paris' Raspail market, says he is selling 30% more beef, and 100% more veal and pork, since October. Dominique Vérot, spokesman for France's National Federation of Organic Agriculture, reports that organic meat sales are up by 25% to 30% nationwide. He expects the country's organic...