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...really picture it," Herbie Crichlow says, "I shouldn't be here." No kidding. A brash English import who says he's the "black sheep" of Sweden's low-key pop scene, Crichlow moved to Stockholm for one thing, or more accurately, one woman. The short story: boy meets girl on a Barbados beach, boy falls for girl, girl goes home, boy follows, freezes, acclimatizes, marries...
World poverty is another issue in which the Clinton administration made headway through globalization, by relieving the debts and lowering import barriers for developing nations, as well as making more abstract commitments towards universal education and removing the digital divide, he said...
...expansion of 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...
...Also, vaccines contain inactivated viruses and the inoculated animals can pass the disease on. It is also difficult to tell the difference between a vaccinated animal and one that actually has the disease, since both show signs of the virus in tests. For this reason, many countries ban the import of vaccinated livestock. To eradicate the disease once it strikes, all infected animals-as well as those suspected of infection-must be destroyed and all locations that might harbor the virus, such as farms, abattoirs and markets, must be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected...
...What can be done to prevent future outbreaks? Apart from banning the import of potentially contaminated animals or products, not much. E.U. legislation already requires member states to quarantine and destroy all infected animals and animal products once contamination is discovered. To stop the disease from spreading, E.U. law prohibits movement of all animals, meat, feed, utensils or other products such as wool or milk liable to transmit the disease...