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...Worst hit - so far - is Britain, where the stench of burning hair, hide and flesh of slaughtered animals casts gloom across the countryside. By week's end at least 250,000 animals had been destroyed, and that was only the beginning. Agriculture Minister Nick Brown announced plans for the "pre-emptive" killing of every pig and sheep within 3 km of any infected farm in Cumbria and southwest Scotland. By some accounts, the massive slaughter order could doom more than a million animals. Officials even considered calling in army sharpshooters to gun down sheep - including newborn lambs and heavily pregnant...
...were shipped to slaughterhouses hundreds of miles away. Within a few weeks it turned up in Northern Ireland and jumped the English Channel to a farm in western France. But even before French veterinarians confirmed cases in six cows last week, authorities from Germany to Portugal were ordering the slaughter of tens of thousands of animals that might have been exposed. Across Europe, traffic backed up for inspection and disinfection at border posts left idle and untended for years. Most of the world banned meat from the European Union, sending already struggling farm businesses into an economic tailspin...
...reek of burning carcasses. Prime Minister Tony Blair had hoped to hold local and national elections May 3, but he risks incurring the wrath of rural voters if he lets the ballot go ahead while a highly infectious disease restricts the movement of people as well as livestock. Draconian slaughter, perhaps, could contain and defeat the infection before May. But Labour's strength among rural voters, never great, had diminished over the party's drive to ban fox hunting and will plummet further with the cull. "There will be many tears in the British countryside today," said Ben Gill, president...
...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...