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...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 the globe. We don't want that anymore...
...ravaged farmers. Still, France is reluctant to go along with major changes to the cap, in part because under the current system its farmers receive more cap money than any other E.U. country. And organic farming doesn't necessarily make disease control any easier: the 1967 foot-and-mouth outbreak occurred at a time when small farms predominated in British agriculture. Farmers then kept pigs outside, facilitating the airborne spread of the virus. And for consumers, there's still one major problem with the organic alternative: it's expensive. Shoppers addicted to cheap food are more likely to scoop...
...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-and-mouth disease, such empathy didn't travel far. About 10 km down the road, business is brisk at a brand new supermarket that had every intention of keeping its shelves stocked...
What is foot-and-mouth disease? It's a highly contagious viral infection that hits cloven-hoofed animals. Symptoms include fluid-filled blisters that appear in and around the animal's mouth, nose, teats and feet...
...dangerous to human beings? No. Britain has recorded only one case, in 1966, of foot-and-mouth disease in a human. That occurrence was mild, transient and showed symptoms similar to those of flu, plus blisters on the hands. Humans cannot contract the disease through consumption of infected meat or from other people...