Word: livestock
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...cases in County Louth north of Dublin. In Britain dozens of cases were confirmed daily and 514 cases had been certified by week's end. Farmers' gloom deepened as the government's chief scientific adviser feared that the epidemic could spiral out of control and half of Britain's livestock may have to be slaughtered. Late in the week the E.U. approved limited use of vaccination to fight the spread of the disease...
...dismayed by the slaughterhouse that Europe has become as foot-and-mouth disease ravages livestock [NOTEBOOK, March 19]. It is especially upsetting because it comes so closel y on the heels of the BSE epidemic. What would happen if these diseases spread to sub-Saharan Africa? Here, there are few slaughterhouses, but where they do exist, blood and waste run into open waterways from which the towns and villages take their drinking water. MOSES IDA-MICHAELS Lagos, Nigeria...
...causing more than just culls and quarantines on the farms of Europe. The foot-and-mouth epidemic is also spreading fear and despair to farm families who are watching helplessly as their livestock - and livelihoods - literally go up in smoke. Even in countries and regions that are so far disease-free, the virus frightens farmers and changes the way they manage their flocks and fields. Here are personal stories of life - and death - on three European farms...
...anyway, at some point, to get them to your dinner table. So it's certainly making people think about what and how they eat. For the farming communities, the trauma has been the deepest. They're paralyzed, depressed. Suicides are up. By some estimates, almost one third of all livestock farmers will quit after this. Farmers are a tiny proportion of the British population, but England feels very connected to the land in a kind of vestigial sense. So the impact of this crisis on the land has a psychological impact on people way beyond the farming communities...
...this regard the European Union is anything but unified. Fifteen countries with the potential of imposing 15 different bans on one another's food is the stuff of chaos. In Holland, Belgium and Germany, some officials actually took the side of the livestock against the British and French, criticizing the strategy of killing animals rather than vaccinating them--a difficult matter for a lot of reasons, not the least being that animals have to be re-inoculated every six months. All this is causing a rising fever in the body politic of the European Union--an unanticipated side effect...