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KANGAROOS With disease afoot, marsupial-meat sales leap 20%. Tastes like chicken--with a kick
...free of a decidedly unwelcome international visitor: foot-and-mouth disease. Last month the explosively infectious livestock illness began breaking out on farms around Britain. Last week more cases traced to the British infection turned up across the Channel in France. When that happened, the already beleaguered European meat market took another hit: the USDA banned the importation of meat and meat products from the 15-nation European Union (E.U.). Other countries, including Australia and Canada, soon did the same. The U.S. and Canadian bans alone could cost Europe $372 million a year...
...been met with general approval at home and--surprisingly--in Europe as well. Foot-and-mouth has already led to the slaughter and incineration of 180,000 pigs, sheep and cows in Britain, with 100,000 more marked for destruction. On the day that the U.S. banned European meat, import doors also slammed shut within the European community. Belgium, Portugal, Spain and Germany banned French meat, and German border police began checking all incoming trucks transporting meat. Consumers on both sides of the Atlantic, who want their meat products on the shelves but would like them free of pathogens, thank...
Compared with policing tourists, policing meat imports is relatively easy. For all the seeming sweep of the new restrictions, there is simply not that much to restrict. With beef from the U.K. already banned because of mad-cow disease, the hardest-hit imports will be pork and goat, mostly from the Netherlands and Denmark. Such cooked and cured meats as canned hams, prepared sausages and prosciutto are not affected because heating or processing kills the foot-and-mouth virus. Certain dairy products like yogurt, Brie and hard cheeses are also exempt, since they are already subject to strict manufacturing conditions...
...most of the country, however, things are brighter. Supermarket meat shelves are full, and Britons can sate themselves on an unlimited supply of imported meat as well as cuts from healthy British livestock. For most people, the crisis is nothing more than...