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TIME.com: Having slaughtered almost half a million sheep and cattle and preparing to slaughter a further 700,000, the British government appears to have suddenly revived the option of mass vaccination of animals against foot-and-mouth. Are they conceding that their handling of the crisis has been inept...
...government's handling of the crisis, so Blair's in a difficult bind. It's not yet clear whether they're going to go ahead with inoculation, although they've been granted permission by the E.U. to go ahead. Many people in these farming communities prefer the idea of slaughter to vaccination, because current technology doesn't properly discriminate between the presence of antibodies as a result of infection and the presence of antibodies as a result of inoculation. That could mean that Britain would lose up to $1.5 billion in lost exports to countries that won't accept vaccinated...
...These images of a mass slaughter of animals obviously present the society with a very traumatic picture of the source of its food. Is it possible to discern a psychological impact...
...farmer in the afflicted French town of Mayenne told a British reporter to go back to "your whore of a country." The predominant mood, however, is not petulance but perplexity about how to fix a system that ships livestock in big herds over long distances for sale and slaughter, crossing borders and oceans like any other global commodity, thus giving lethal bugs a chance to spread...
...violence paid their money fully expecting this kind of mayhem, and then shed crocodile tears when it happened," wrote a nonfan of NASCAR from Salem, Ore. "Shame on all of them." "If any other sport had a comparable death rate, there would be calls for legislation to ban the slaughter," declared an Oklahoman, while an Ohio environmentalist found even more reasons to condemn motor sport: "NASCAR is truly the winningest sport of all--it's tops in noise pollution, and beats out clean air and oil conservation. Wherever NASCAR's rubber meets the road, the human race is the loser...