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“constantly sought to prevent or delay”:
Quoted in Le Monde, “Time to Make Some Radical Reforms in the Food Industry,”
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“might have had an adverse effect”:
Quoted in ibid.

about 150 million pounds of the stuff:
In 1989 Great Britain exported roughly 15,000 tons of potentially tainted feed, and exported an additional 8,500 to 9,000 tons per year until 1996. That adds up to roughly 75,000 tons over the eight-year period. Cited in Steve Stecklow, “U.K.’s Exports May Have Expanded the Boundaries of Mad Cow Disease’,
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blocked publication of the EU report:
See Peter Hadfield, “Ministry Bungle puts Japan at risk of BSE,”
Sunday Telegraph
, September 23, 2001.

“disposed of”:
See ibid.

about a billion pounds of rendered cattle:
Cited in Steve Secklow, “In Battling Mad Cow, Britain Spawns Heaps of Pulverized Cattle,”
Wall Street Journal
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generates electricity by burning cattle:
See Philip Pullela, “Mad Cow Scare on Front Burner around Europe,”
Reuters
, January 22, 2001.

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BSE may easily cross the species barrier:
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“All cannibalistic recycling”:
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at least 60,000 other cattle:
This figure was cited by Professor Jeffrey Almond, Transcript, “U.S. TSE Committee.”

“If you don’t look”:
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approximately 375 million cattle:
Since 1990, about 34 million cattle have been slaughtered each year in the United States. See “The Texas Blues,”
Leather
, August 1998.

about 15,000 of them were tested for mad cow:
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a cattle herd roughly one-thirtieth the size:
Belgium has about 3 million cattle; the United States has about 100 million. See Terry Downs, “Mad Cow Disease Testing Reveals Widespread Infection in Europe,”
Food Chemical News
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leading American manufacturers promise:
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Petfood Industry
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40,000 pounds of dead dogs and dead cats
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“This food is healthy and good”:
Quoted in ibid.

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the most common source of animal protein in poultry feed:
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processes about 10 million pounds of chicken parts:
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the export needs of Nestlé:
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Guardian
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supplied the milk for McDonald’s milkshakes
: Cited in Amanda Hall, “Whole-meal Haskins: Chris Haskins, Maverick of Northern Foods and Express Dairies, Mixes a Healthy Serving of Politics with His Business,”
Sunday Telegraph
, June 14,1998.

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20 percent of its farmland:
Cited in Paul Geitner, “Scare Helps Europe’s Organic Food,”
AP Online
, March 19, 2001.

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