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BOVINE SLAUGHTER AND
BIRD FLU
It is really alarming to note that B.S.E. (BovineSpongiform-Encephalopathy); the dreaded 'mad-cowdisease' might imperil eleven million cows as reported in Hindustan Times, years earlier, besides that already 1,60,000 cows have been destroyed due to it. The British Health Secretary, Stephan Dorrel shocked the farming community by confirming that wholesale slaughter was one of the options should there is surge in cases of C.J.D. The human counter part of B.S.E.
It is however, important to note that there have been reports of about ten people, had been so far affected and or died. Here also scientific conclusion is lacking. The decision to slaughter live stocks enmass, smacks of frenized panicky, senseless, cruelty. It was being done in the context of main European countries banning import of beef. Total export of beef-annually from Britain is reported to be 2,48,000 tonnes of which major importers are France 80,000 tonnes and Italy 42,000 tonnes. In France the sellers are putting up hoarding of “French beef". Some 10,000 schools in England provide to their children, beef, in their meal and lacs of persons are using
