Article: UK Government to Consider New Report on Mad Cow Disease

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 ...

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