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...passed the virus on. "Pigs spread it, sheep carry it, cattle show it," says Johnson. William Cleave, a large cattle dealer from Devon, unwittingly purchased a flock of diseased sheep at the market and took the animals to another market in Cumbria, before sending them to a farm in Highampton, 700 km away...
...fateful journey. At Cleave's farm in Highampton, sheep passed the disease to cattle; some of the sheep were then sent to a slaughterhouse about 170 km east, while others were bought by a farm in Herefordshire, some 200 km north, causing one more outbreak. Still another batch went 300 km northeast to a market in Northampton. Cleave packed a shipment of 348 sheep off to the British Channel port of Dover, where they were carried to Germany on a livestock ferry...
...pain, the global marketplace will churn on, and people will get their food from somewhere. In parts of England last week the dark mood of rural inhabitants seemed to reflect a sense of betrayal, anger at the overturning of an old order. "Leave us alone," says a farmer in Highampton. "No one cares if we live or die." Adrian Edwards, the local butcher, says he will allow his supplies to run out this week, rather than sell imported meat. "That's not something we're going to do," he says. "There's a principle involved here." But unlike foot...
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