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“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, January 8, 2001.
generates electricity by burning cattle: See Philip Pullela, “Mad Cow Scare on Front Burner around Europe,” Reuters, January 22, 2001.
287 BSE may easily cross the species barrier: See Bonn, “Healthy Carriers,” The Lancet, and Barry James, “‘Mad Cow’ Disease in Pigs and Sheep?” International Herald Tribune, August 31, 2000.
“All cannibalistic recycling”: Quoted in Jonathon Leake, “New BSE Outbreak Linked to Blood in Feed,” Sunday Times, September 24, 2001.
at least 60,000 other cattle: This figure was cited by Professor Jeffrey Almond, Transcript, “U.S. TSE Committee.”
“If you don’t look”: Quoted in John S. Long, “Nation Isn’t Doing Enough to Detect Mad Cow Disease, CWRU Experts Say,” Plain Dealer, May 6, 2001.
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: See Megan Mulholland, “Wisconsin-Based Renderer’s President Stands Firm on Safety of U.S. Feed,” Post Crescent, May 20, 2001.
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, January 22, 2001.
leading American manufacturers promise: See Tim Phillips, “Are Pets Being Reccled into Pet Food?” Petfood Industry, March/Aril 1992.
40,000 pounds of dead dogs and dead cats: Cited in Patrick White, “Canada Pet Food Firm Turns Back on Dog and Cat Meat,” Reuters, June 5, 2001.
“This food is healthy and good”: Quoted in ibid.
288 the most common source of animal protein in poultry feed: See Daniel Rosenberg, “Mad Cow Disease Concern Could Change Chicken Feed’, Wisconsin State Journal, May 5, 2001.
processes about 10 million pounds of chicken parts: Cited in “Multi-million Dollar Facility to Help Tyson Ensure That Nothing Goes to Waste’” M2 Presswire, June 7, 1996.
the export needs of Nestlé: See John Vidal and Peter Hethrington, “Foot-and-Mouth Crisis: Food Lobby Forced PM into U-Turn on Plan for Vaccination,” Guardian, September 8, 2001.
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.
289 20 percent of its farmland: Cited in Paul Geitner, “Scare Helps Europe’s Organic Food,” AP Online, March 19, 2001.
“Things will no longer be”: Quoted in Michael Adler, “Greens Trumpet Their New Star, Agriculture Minister Kuenast,” Agence France Presse, March 11, 2001.
“Our Cows should get only water”: Quoted in “Germany Plans Radical Farm Reform — Food Must Be As Pure As Beer, Says Government,” Deutsche Presse-Agentur, February 8, 2001.
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