Word: cowed
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...Sheep Department of Agriculture officials seized flocks of sheep from two Vermont farmers to test for a version of bse, or "mad cow" disease. The sheep, some of which were imported from Belgium and the Netherlands in 1996, tested positive in July for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (tse), a class of neurological illness that includes scrapie and bse. Officials said they would take the sheep to Iowa to be tested and killed...
...mail from Paula, dated three minutes later:] I now have a cow sitting on my left shoulder. Really...
BART SIMPSON Cartoon boy may have sex in future film. Don't have a cow--it's still on the drawing board...
...Coming on the heels of the mad cow disease crisis, how has the foot-and-mouth outbreak affected British eating habits...
...There's a significant shift toward vegetarianism, obviously. Polls show that some 20 percent of the population is now seriously contemplating vegetarianism, and restaurants are turning largely toward chicken and fish. This outbreak may shift attitudes a lot more sharply than the mad cow issue did. That initially brought down beef consumption by about 20 percent, but it soon recovered its old levels. But this foot-and-mouth outbreak may prompt a more significant and long-lasting move away from meat...