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With foot-and-mouth disease creating Europe's second agriculture crisis of the year, Renate Künast, Germany's new Minister for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture, is getting some quick in-job training. Fresh from ordering the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals in the "mad cow" scare, Künast has been forced to authorize more killings - this time of livestock imported from Britain as a precaution against foot-and-mouth disease. Künast is a member of the Green party, and some Greens complain that her large-scale slaughter of animals - when only...
...nast's predecessor as Agriculture Minister, Karl-Heinz Funke, was a farmer who resigned amid the previous food crisis, the one over bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease. Künast, 45, is a lawyer with no experience in agriculture. In appointing her to head a new ministry that combines consumer protection, food and farming, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder declared, "The German farming association has to accept that its influence is going to be shaved away." Künast made the same point to parliament, saying the bse crisis "marks the end of old-fashioned agriculture." Instead...
...made organic, however, may emerge as the real winner in the current beef shakedown. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has declared his intention to reorient agricultural policy "in the interest of the consumer" by shifting aid from industrial "agrofactories" to organic farms. Agriculture Minister Renate Künast is aiming to increase the proportion of organically farmed land from 2.6% to 20% within the next 10 years. Even without more government aid, Europe's organic farmers are enjoying flush times. "Every time there's another bse scare, our customers increase," says Richard Counsell, an organic farmer in southwest England...
Willoughby's task as executive editor will be to make Gourmet's prose as captivating as that of its fellow Conde Nast publication The New Yorker, Willoughby said...
...that would make you feel "like you were being cradled in a beautiful space." Maybe Gehry should have designed the Esalen Institute, given how much he talks about spaces that hug people. But sitting with him last week in the cafeteria he created for the headquarters of the Conde Nast publishing firm in midtown Manhattan, you could see what he means. The blue titanium walls bulge toward you like expectant mothers. The circular banquettes are surrounded by floor-to-ceiling sheets of plate glass, but each of them is uniquely curved and torqued so that together they form a voluptuous...