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...Just when consumers were starting to feel good about eating British meat again, a new health hazard erupted, throwing the farming industry into crisis. The discovery of at least six outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in English pigs prompted the government to ban exports of all livestock, milk and meat products until March 1. The outbreak could cost the industry as much as $75 million. Though the disease is not lethal to humans, it is devastating to animals and highly contagious. Citizens were urged to forgo potentially risky activities such as visiting farms, fox hunting and even taking walks...
...bulked up with antibiotics and, illegally but not uncommonly, with hormones, while battery chickens are often similarly drugged. Though there is no indication that fish can harbor the bse prion, it is hardly reassuring to know that much of it is artificially farmed and fed with the same meat-based meal that has been outlawed for cows and other livestock. No wonder many Europeans agree with Berlin housewife Hannelore Schröder that they might as well stick with beef. "What else am I to eat?" she asks. "Pork is full of antibiotics, poultry is full of hormones...
...Fortunately, there are other choices-including red meats that cook and taste much like beef. Horsemeat, long prized in France, has been undergoing a boom there, with sales up 59% in December. Bison, only half as fat as chicken and with 30% more protein than beef, is also winning new European fans. More unusual offerings are starting to make their way into some markets and restaurants. Among them: ostrich, emu and kangaroo, all of which are lean and tender red meats. But, like bison, they are much more expensive than beef. Beef aficionados also claim the big birds tend...
...Restaurants specializing in alternative meats are beginning to crop up across Europe. Le Carnivore in the French city of Nantes regularly serves up such delights as kangaroo brochette, ostrich tartare and bison steak. Wooloomooloo, an Australian restaurant in Berlin, has cleared beef off its menu and now features kangaroo, ostrich and crocodile. For the truly adventurous, the Springbok Café in Chiswick, west London, has been doing what owner Peter Gottgens calls a "roaring trade" in blesbok, impala, kudu, warthog and zebra. Since wild game roams freely and eats natural vegetation, Gottgens calls it "the ultimate organic meat-real organic...
...Counsell, an organic farmer in southwest England. Jean Bessière, an organic butcher at Paris' Raspail market, says he is selling 30% more beef, and 100% more veal and pork, since October. Dominique Vérot, spokesman for France's National Federation of Organic Agriculture, reports that organic meat sales are up by 25% to 30% nationwide. He expects the country's organic farmers to number more than 25,000 by 2005-a sevenfold increase over...