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...setting off yet another health panic in Europe. It even prompted soul-searching about the future of European agriculture and the safety of European food in an increasingly competitive, and hazardous, global marketplace. But the epidemic's most devastating impact was felt in picturesque English counties like Devon and Northumberland, by scores of businessmen even less fortunate than McInnes: despondent small farmers who watched entire livelihoods go up in smoke with the remains of their condemned animals. "It's a killer," sighs McInnes. The National Farmers' Union estimates the crisis costs farmers $30 million a week. "We're just waiting...
...Europe get into this fix? British veterinary investigators last week zeroed in on Burnside farm, a pig-fattening facility in Northumberland, in the north of England. Vets believe pigs at the unit may have been fed leftovers from local school lunches that possibly contained bits of contaminated meat. The current virus, experts say, is the pan-Asian variant of the "O" type of foot-and-mouth, a highly infectious strain, which could have entered Britain through illegally imported meat. Once the virus got into the pig swill at Burnside, it was too late. A group of pigs from the farm...
...What caused this particular outbreak? No one knows for sure, but the infection is thought to have come from abroad, perhaps Asia, since the U.K. has been disease-free for years. The most likely source is contaminated meat or bones in pig swill at a Northumberland pig-fattening unit...
Magnificently captured by Shakespearian actor John Wood, most familiar to recent movie-going audiences as the elusive Dr. Stephen Falken in War Games, Northumberland is every inch the cold-hearted villain, complete with gaunt complexion, beady eyes and extended five o'clock shadow. The first of the principal actors to appear on-screen, we see him directly after the camera shows the ax being lowered over the head of King Edward's former favorite, the Duke of Somerset. After hearing of Somerset's death, Northumberland nestles back into his chair and with an admirable coolness, casually inquires...
CARY ELWES as Northumberland's wayward son, Guilford, is solely responsible for the film's comedic angle. A frequent client at all of greater London's bars, bawdy houses, and brothels, the unscrupulous Guilford would seem the least likely martimonial candidate for the solemn and studious Jane. Thanks to the wry wit of screenwriter Edgar, Guilford is never at a loss for words. Countering his nervous bride-to-be's request that they live "as cousins," Guilford tells her that when he was informed of the marriage he was "sampling the pleasures of a certain lady of the evening...