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Show Al4 The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD Sunday, December3, 2000 Fearful Europe Yanks Beef From Fields, Menus Governmentsseizing — mad cow-infécted herds continent __resists Newly discovered cases sent ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BELLEGEM, Belgium — The schools from Paris to Berlin rushing to yank beef off cafeteria menus. — Butchers in Athens stopped selling all cuts in their crumbling brick; buildings at the end of a lane in therolling fields of Flanders — is strangely quiet. A dog barks in a barn and cats wander through the: muddy courtyard, but there are no cows mooing in thefields. shops. Italian farmers blocked trucks at the borders to keep foreign cows out. Even atthe Brussels headquarters of the EuropearrUnion, which is struggling to restore publicfaith in food safety, the fear is visible: A sign taped to a restaurant door in- Denis Veys,, whose family has raised cattle here for generations, forms customers that only beef from Argentinais being served. sits at his kitchentable and fumes. Until about: a week ago, he was the proud ownerof131 cattle. Then Europeanshave been disabused. of that notion by a parade of food mad cow disease struck one animal, authorit-ies seized his entire herd, and a stunned Veys was left to wonder how his family is supposed to get loy. “This is a criminal thing,” he says,eyes fl:ashing angrily through the smoke: from a_ cigarette still cally modified plants from the United States, mad cow disease has created a frenzy. PAUL(GEITNER BY PAUL arent little farmstead that hormone-treated beef and geneti- scares in recent years,from dioxin in chickens to shellfish poisoned by an oil spill. Still, those on the continent - thought that mad cow disease — clutched in a dirt-stained hand.“It came from England andinfected the whole of Europe.” His anger is shared by many Europeans; caught up in a new wave ofhysteria about the bovine plague from Britain — andits equally fatal human equivalent — ee has sweptthe continentthis bovine spongiform encephalopa- thy, or BSE — was mainly a problem across the English Channel, andhad already been dealt with. The brain-wasting diseaseorig- plentiful, Europeans—rely—much. more heavily on slaughterhouse waste to boost the protein content ofanimal fodder. BSEwasn't identified until 1986, but by the mid-1990s, Britain was seeing tens of thousands of cases a year. ear. Then in 1996, a link was established between BSE and a new and similar human illness called variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease Britain. Thepublic health uproar abated only after the European Union banned exports of British beef and feed in 1996 and millions of British cows were incinerated. But ‘the all-clear proved Unlike the United States, where farmers neverimported any of the they did import have all been traced and either quarantined or destroyed. Hoping to restore public confidence, EU farm ministers are ex- Canada. That entire herd was animal products in ‘fodder, for cows as well as for pigs and pq try, for at least six months.——#. Also, starting Jan. 1, all cows over 2% years old will have to be certified BSE-free before they can be butchered and sold. Veys, the Belgian cattleman, was the ninth in his country 40 havehis herd seized this year, and he is angry no onetold him years ago about “the garbage they pat” intocattle feed. “Now they guarantee the feed is safe — but before, nothing,” he says. 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Very little is known forsure. grains and soybeans are cheap and United States because American contaminated feed and the animals that was shipped from Britain to New tests started turning up dozens of BSE cases in continental enough to infect a cow,” Maura Ricketts, a medical consultant at The actual risk of infection is chance of the disease reaching the pected to approve on Monday a ban throughout the 15-nation EU on premature. inated in Britain in the late 1970s, still statistically tiny. But on a other contamination have been found. Scientists say there is little (vCJD), a horrible crippling of the nervous system followed by death. So. far 81 people have died in probably as a mutation of scrapie, a centuries-old sheep disease. 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