Word: slaughtered
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...average of 27% last month and export markets have collapsed. In Germany, Spain and Italy, sales have plunged between 40% and 50%. France's turnover has fallen by some 30%. Only in Britain, where the epidemic started in the 1980s, causing 83 human deaths and prompting the slaughter of nearly 5 million cattle, has consumption returned to pre-bse levels...
...across Europe, beef consumption has plunged 27% in the last three months; in Germany it has been cut in half. This is an epidemic propelled by fear, and governments aren't immune. Ridiculed for their attempts to downplay the threat last year, German authorities last week pledged to buy, slaughter and bury 400,000 cows in an effort to rid the country of the disease...
Rwanda's judicial system was crippled by the genocide, as a vast majority of its judges were either perpetrators or victims of the slaughter...
...across Europe, beef consumption has plunged 27% in the last three months; in Germany it has been cut in half. This is an epidemic propelled by fear, and governments aren't immune. Ridiculed for their attempts to downplay the threat last year, German authorities last week pledged to buy, slaughter and bury 400,000 cows in an effort to rid the country of the disease. Full Story...
...Challenge No. 1: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Washington needs the help of friendly Arab governments, like those in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt. But America's allies are upset by U.S. acquiescence in what they see as Israel's slaughter of Palestinians in the 16-month-old Aqsa intifadeh. The U.S. will try to calm the conflict, but overt cooperation with Arab states will not be easy as long as Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza continues...