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"en.20010405.6.4-119"2
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"With ‘mad cows’ agri-industry created a new disease fatal to humans, and we still do not know how to cure it. Foot-and-mouth, though, is an ancient disease. It does not affect humans and the majority of animals recover from it. With the development of the world market in cattle and meat, however, agri-industry has given it an international epidemic dimension it did not have before. The market imposes its own health requirements too, with tragic consequences.
The use of vaccine has been banned on purely economic grounds, ‘economic’ here being reduced to commercial regulations and an estimate of the financial costs which is in some respects questionable. Hundreds of thousands of healthy (or curable) animals are being slaughtered purely in the name of an accountant’s calculation of profitability. The decision-makers have only the market rules they have invented themselves to set against the despair of the farmers whose herds are being destroyed. Elementary respect for life, protection of local economies, maintenance of a thriving social fabric in the rural environment, and the living and working conditions of country people have all been ignored in the definition of health policies in response to the foot-and-mouth epidemic. All that remains is the power of the market and its laws of bronze. It is definitely high time we freed ourselves from that power."@en1
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