People often talk about neighbourliness as a phenomenon from the past.
Neighbourliness, or cooperation and collaboration, is seen increasingly on an international scale. Diplomacy rather than conflict is f ted as the twentieth century nears its close. H 5 N 1 infection in Hong Kong have met an international response. The threat of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease resulting from the consumption of foodstuffs contaminated with the agent that causes bovine spongiform encephalopathy continues, however, to evoke discord. The production and trade, giving and taking of food is of almost primeval significance.