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Article: UK Government to Consider New Report on Mad Cow Disease
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 29, 1996
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The British government has promised to consider the latest report
on the mad cow disease, predicting the mad cow epidemic will be over
in 2001, and agreed to discuss farmers' demands for an end to a mass
cattle slaughter.
Oxford scientists, writing in the scientific journal Nature, said
that the mad cow disease would decline naturally and would be over in
2001 without the planned slaughter of 147,000 cattle.
Angela Browning, a senior minister of the British Agriculture
Ministry, said in a BBC television interview that the government was
already rethinking its slaughter plans following the information
announced earlier this month that the BSE or mad cow disease can be
passed on from cows to ...