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Monday, January 22,2
THE BATTALION
‘Purchase for destruction’
to erase mad cow disease
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LOUGHREA, Ireland (AP) —
Noel Garner, a bushy-haired farmer
raising cattle in the verdant hills of
western Ireland, was stunned when
mad cow disease struck his small
herd months ago.
An even bigger shock came a few,,
days later, when the carcass he had
buried at the edge of a pasture
showed up back on his doorstep.
Neighbors had driven a mecha
nized digger to the grave, unearthed
the cow and carted it back to Gar
ner’s place in an old oil barrel.
They were afraid that diseased
particles would seep into their water
supply, said Gus Egan, who runs the
livestock mart in Loughrea, County
Galway. “The people were right,” he
said. “I’d do the same thing.”
The case highlights the problem
facing European countries as they
initiate mass slaughters to stop the
dreaded disease and revive collapsed
markets: what to do with the bodies.
The “purchase for destruction”
program launched by the 15-nation
European Union this month foresees
buying and incinerating up to 2 mil
lion head of cattle by the end of June,
at an estimated cost to governments
of $1 billion.
But implementation has been
stymied in places by logistics as well
as ethical concerns about sending so
much prime beef up in smoke.
“It’s an awful shame and a dis
grace,” Egan said, echoing a senti
ment heard across Europe. “With all
the people starving all over the world,
to destroy perfectly good meat...”
New evidence that mad cow dis
ease had spread from Britain to con
tinental herds prompted EU leaders
last month to adopt mandatory test
ing for cattle over 30 months. Any
animal that is not confirmed free of
BSE — bovine spongiform en
cephalopathy — cannot go to market.
Germany, which started testing
three weeks early, has found only
16 cases out of more than 112,000
tests conducted. Belgium found two
in 7,550 tests.
Ireland has had more cases — al
most 600 since 1987 — than any
country outside Britain. But of
It's an awful
shame and a dis
grace. With all the
people starving all
over the world, to
destroy perfectly
good meat...”
— Gus Egan
livestock market manager
17,500 tests so far this month, not
one revealed BSE, according to Irish
Agriculture Minister Joe Walsh.
Yet the wide-scale testing has
led to isolated discoveries of BSE
in places that had considered
themselves pristine, including an
Italian slaughterhouse that sup
plies McDonald’s.
Thus, a measure meant to reassure
Europeans has actually heightened
fears of eating infected meat and con
tracting the fatal, brain-wasting, new
variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease.
Beef sales have tumbled by 27
percent across the EU — and as
much as 50 percent in some coun
tries. Many non-EU countries have
suspended imports altogether.
And because sales are down,
vast numbers of healthy cattle must
be slaughtered just to prevent over-
supply.
Ireland, a country with twicer
many cows as people, usuallye,v
ports 90 percent of the 550,0(
of beef it produces annually to coin-
tries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia ami
the Persian Gulf states — all of
which have enacted temporary
“Farmers have to regularly bis
their old cows that are ready
slaughter to the slaughterhouse,
right now no one is buying the
Franz Fischler, the EU agricultiiri
commissioner, explained inanim
terview with the German weekli
Die Zeit.
“We can’t simply shoot theim
the moon,” he added.
Yet the sheer numbers are male
even slaughter and disposal diffiaii.
Lacking enough abattoirsandi:
cinerators, authorities in Portugal
Azores Islands Monday postpone:
the slaughter of some 5,000 cattl:
They plan to send some of tk
doomed cattle to the Portupe
mainland.
Ireland has only a handful
small, private incinerators tk
handle hospital and pharmacy
cal waste.
Since 1997, Irish slaughterhoi;
had been shipping the potentially
factious animal parts — brain,spin,
cord and parts of the intestines-
the only plant in the country liceas
to deal with it: Monery By-Pnxfc
in County Cavan.
The plant turns the materialii
powdery meal and liquid ti
Until last month these were shipp:
to Germany for incineration
now EU rules require the entire :
testine to be treated as “speci
risk material,” trebling the wek:
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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A weeping Joseph Kabi
la, newly installed leader of Congo, mourned his slain fa
ther Sunday as memorials for the president shifted to the
crumbling capital where he was assassinated five days ago.
Thousands of supporters grieved in the streets for Lau
rent Kabila, crying and waving palm fronds as a motor
cade bearing his casket wound through the city.
Many wailed and chanted “Mzee, Mzee, Mzee” — a
Swahili nickname for Kabila that means “respected elder.”
“We cry for our Mzee,” said one mourner, Lean-Fran-
cois Ngola. “He paid the price for his independence and
dignity. He remains an example of respect for me.”
But others in this deeply divided Central African na
tion expressed little affection for the man who steered the
country deeper into poverty and chaos.
While state television trumpeted that “all of Kinshasa
is crying for Laurent Desire Kabila,” police at a Simba
Zikida marketplace were said to be ordering people to line
the streets leading to the open-air Palace of the People,
where Kabila will lie in state until his funeral Tuesday.
“They cannot force people to mourn. Even if it were
my own father I would not accept it,” said one shopper,
who identified herself only as Honorine. “But I’m afraid
the soldiers will make trouble against the people.”
The unexpected outpouring of grief in a city
distrusted and rarely stayed in may be explained by asa;
ing in the majority Lingala language: “First weeryft
the dead, then we bury the dead. Then when it’s
there will be big trouble.”
In Luanda, Angola, the presidents of Kabila’ste
foreign allies — Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Sunday and pledged to keep their troops in Congotoa
port government forces.
In a joint statement they urged all factions in the
flict to "contain offensive military measures.”
Only Angola, however, gave public backing to®[ kno\
new president. I don’t
Joseph Kabila, surrounded by soldiers from Cot; p er }
and Angola, wept as his father’s casket was uni® i 0 y> s ,
from the presidential plane and marched across the|j ourna ]
mac to a waiting open-top trailer after its arrival from
home city of Lubumbashi, 1,000 miles to the souths
The young leader, to be sworn in as president in
days after the funeral, walked behind the casket as in
carried past two rows of sobbing officials. Six mi
brass strained to heave the casket onto a trailer as anc
er officer led the procession with a large portrait of
slain president. |‘
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