been more H infurimonths than the hysteria whipped un at the end of last year over rying the 'beef war', as it became known. The tabloids carried rabid, racist, anti-French and antiheadlines day after Britain day.
from that Brelaiwas on the verre Of war with France if not Germany as well.
This led to a boscott of it. These French goods and we were land subjected the disgusting Hong brandishing placards with frogs on them wars have managed to unite the media has xenophobia and obscurantist platform completely as this has. While Curieu racist filth the broadsheets accented the British case almost uncritically.
Whilst Torics, whose led to BSE in the first place, this, new Labour, who could exposed them CID. had they chosen to. joined the pack and then took it You searched in vain for the most obvious facts. That, for example, it was France, even beet but virtuairy the whoie world. Fifty four countries in be millions. You would have thought that this was a fairly relevant point to make tor papers car page after day after day, lambasting France in France. Ridiculous Outside of the EU - where normal methous has used the EU and the political cooking. leverage available within it. to push the ridiculous notor in the media. that "British neet is safe only a handful of countries accept include the FalkIslands, Kong. Malta and Trinidad and Tobago.
And you can search in vain to find out about the scale of the problem Britain. Britain had 180,000 cases BSE, that is over 99% of all away scot free. known cases in the word It still has over 2,000 cases a total of 70 cases and almost existence of BSE in one can under 30 months, British export of cattie lood or livestock. incurable brain discase (BSE dealing with ing it.
detectable cattle and new variant and the human form fakes which nas an incuba tion period of somewhere between 10 and 30 years. the srilis This means that no one knows how many people are 30 month factor. currently incubating it from contaminated food going back to the 1980s. In Britain it could be hundreds, if could be thousands, il could No one knows are genetically susceptible to • pcople hav already "ce Haye been three deaths from BSE transmitted by an agent which is impervious to of controlling infected food, such as But none of this is the issue The issue is that 'the frogs" won't buy our they were told that they had The Tories, who removed problem in Britain, showing from the cattle that BSE and allowed in the food chain. sheep with a dangcrous brain French scientists also claim disease to be fed to cattle and thus gave the world BSE, get ave cucule can be transmitted beiween cattle by physical Now top French scientists have produced new, and dis- Britain's refusal, on the France cattle whole herd where a BSE case arises. perfected a method of detect- They have also found that the discase can be passed on BSE has not been hitherto below 30 months tamination assumed to be absent. This issue which the government evidence would blow apart if it even addressed. It has also that during the negotiations Britain offered the French More importantly it would government that they would expose a huge public health slaughter beef bought from conomic activity levels and The Labour administration
of BSE a ycar. France has had turbing.
conclusive; Britch case is based on the