Word: slaughters
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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...
...mouth in the western region of Mayenne. The bans, said Marc-Henri Cassagne, head of the organization that monitors animal health in France, "are abusive in their application to areas of France that have shown no sign of contagion." But even Agriculture Minister Jean Glavany warned that the slaughter-and-burn policy around Mayenne may not halt the outbreak. "There will be more cases," he said flatly...
...move has been met with general approval at home and--surprisingly--in Europe as well. Foot-and-mouth has already led to the slaughter and incineration of 180,000 pigs, sheep and cows in Britain, with 100,000 more marked for destruction. On the day that the U.S. banned European meat, import doors also slammed shut within the European community. Belgium, Portugal, Spain and Germany banned French meat, and German border police began checking all incoming trucks transporting meat. Consumers on both sides of the Atlantic, who want their meat products on the shelves but would like them free...
...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...