Mad cow disease has Europe reconsidering eating habits

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Mad cow disease has Europe reconsidering eating habits

 

Kevin Cullen / Boston Globe

 

http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=83621051

 

....But Franz Fischler, the European Union's agriculture commissioner,

said the crisis is deeper than a drop in beef sales. " The repercussions

of the ... crisis go far beyond the loss of consumer confidence and

severe market disruption, " he said. " It has, for the first time,

awakened the feeling in society at large that we must stop these

practices, we must stop ruminants [animals that chew on cuds] being fed

on animal proteins, or milk being adulterated as it is in Italy, or

feeding stuffs being contaminated with dioxins as in Belgium. "