Word: slaughtered
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...southwestern English county of Devon lie fallow, its 70 head of cattle close to worthless. He can't find a buyer for the ancestral farm, which he is now desperate to sell. An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has turned the verdant countryside into a gruesome field of slaughter. The prevailing sound is the crack of pistol shots felling livestock. Farms appear barren save for the smoldering pyres on which hundreds of perfectly healthy animals were incinerated last week. So far McInnes' herd has avoided infection, which means he still has a chance to unload the farm and "pack...
...Portugal. Possible symptoms of the disease were reported in Belgium. Although initial tests for the virus on a pig farm near the town of Diksmuide were negative, all 323 pigs-75 of them British imports-were destroyed and transportation of live farm animals was banned. Germany ordered the slaughter of all sheep, goats and deer imported from the U.K. since Feb. 1. France decreed that 50,000 sheep be destroyed-at least twice as many as the number of animals culled in Britain itself. European Muslims prepared to celebrate the festival of Eid al Adha without its main ritual...
...Given Europe's familiarity with the disease, why didn't governments vaccinate their livestock against it? The answer is that they did, and were successful in keeping the disease in check-until 1990, when the E.U. decided to adopt the British approach to prevention: immediate slaughter of animals thought to be infected. Why? British vets say vaccines can actually make testing for disease more difficult, since it is impossible to tell whether an animal's antibodies come from the vaccine or the virus. And even vaccinated animals can harbor the live virus for up to two years. Says David Tyson...
...southwestern English county of Devon lie fallow, its 70 head of cattle close to worthless. He can't find a buyer for the ancestral farm, which he is now desperate to sell. An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has turned the verdant countryside into a gruesome field of slaughter. The prevailing sound is the crack of pistol shots felling livestock. Farms appear barren save for the smoldering pyres on which hundreds of perfectly healthy animals were incinerated last week. So far McInnes' herd has avoided infection, which means he still has a chance to unload the farm and "pack...
Jacky talks about killing him, slitting his throat from three till nine and hanging him upside down so the blood drains out of him the way it ran from the baby pigs they used to slaughter in her village before a funeral feast. He deserves it, really, she says, for his freeloading, for his hanging around, for how he just stands there, spindly-legged and narrow-chested and pimple-faced with his big yearning eyes, and just begs for another...