Today in Britain, however, there is little to be happy about. Farmers are lost in disbelief. First mad-cow disease, and now this. A total of 45,000 cloven-hoofed animals, including cows, pigs, sheep and goats, have been destroyed, Britain's chief veterinarian says. As many as 30,000 animals, mostly sheep from Britain, have been or are being killed in continental Europe.
Farmers there are worried.
Authorities say 56 cases of the disease have been confirmed to date. The British countryside is shut down. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says there are only 47 countries in the world that do not have the disease. Canada is one of them. The cost in lost sales when other countries refuse to import your meat is millions and even billions of dollars.