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Foot-and-mouth

Article26 April 2001
Phoenix: cute calf, but what about the foot-and-mouth issue?
How calf, not man, makes policy.

by Sandy Starrinspiked-life

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9 August 2001
Foot in mouth
How did a livestock disease cause a national nervous breakdown?
Other articles
Article26 April 2001
Flying to the foot-and-mouth capital
As I returned to Italy with a box of Milk Tray chocolates for my wife, I guessed what it must feel like to be a smuggler.

by Dominic Standishinspiked-life

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Article25 April 2001
Dioxin: a toxin for our times
Do the chemicals released by foot-and-mouth funeral pyres pose a threat to human health? Dr Michael Fitzpatrick unravels the great dioxin scare.

by Dr Michael Fitzpatrickinspiked-health

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ColumnJennie Bristow19 April 2001
Foot-and-mouth disease: what about the Baa vote?
To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? A ditty on indecision.

Columnsinspiked-life

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Article12 April 2001
Sheep, pigs and scapegoats
Everybody from animal rights campaigners to Saddam Hussein has been blamed for starting the spread of foot-and-mouth.

by Sandy Starrinspiked-life

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Article12 April 2001
Dirty man of Europe: a phrasebook
Essential vocab for Brits abroad this Easter.

by Josie Appletoninspiked-life

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Article12 April 2001
Making a drama out of a crisis
At every stage, the panic over foot-and-mouth has run ahead of the disease. Is it any wonder we are now in such a mess?

by Jennie Bristowinspiked-central

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Article5 April 2001
On holiday in foot-and-mouth country
How can the UK government hope to encourage tourists towards a diseased countryside, when the local inhabitants can't even walk their dogs?

by Jennie Bristowinspiked-life

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Article2 April 2001
When foot-and-mouth didn't make the front page
How the UK media reported the last major foot-and-mouth outbreak in 1967.

by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-culture

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Article16 March 2001
Ireland cancels St Patrick's Day
As the rest of the world goes Celtic for St Patrick's Day, the Emerald Isle cancels celebrations through fear of foot-and-mouth.

by Brendan O'Neillinspiked-life

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ColumnMick Hume15 March 2001
Things fall apart
'We seem to have lost sight of any distinction between rational measures to cope with an animal disease, and the irrational attempt to put the countryside (if not the entire country) into quarantine.'

Columnsinspiked-central

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Article15 March 2001
Minister: precautionary principle has 'got out of hand'
UK minister for the environment Michael Meacher today conceded that, in responding to the foot-and-mouth outbreak, 'the precautionary principle perhaps got out of hand because we did not understand all of the issues'.

by spiked-geistinspiked-science

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Article12 March 2001
National life is indefinitely postponed
How Britain, paralysed by fear, is closing itself down.

by Josie Appletoninspiked-life

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ColumnDr Michael Fitzpatrick7 March 2001
FMD: another outbreak of panic
'For New Labour, the lesson of the BSE crisis is that, far from trying to contain any health scare that arises, it should seize the opportunity to promote it.'

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ColumnJennie Bristow7 March 2001
Country life goes on
'Who needs an exclusion zone to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease when you have the UK railways?'

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ColumnMick Hume2 March 2001
A national nervous breakdown
'What possible connection could there be between an animal disease, a flood and a fatal train crash?'

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Article2 March 2001
Foot-and-mouth: 'People have overreacted'
Sean Rickard, former chief economist of the National Farmers' Union, looks at the foot-and-mouth outbreak in perspective.

by Tony Gillandinspiked-science

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Article23 February 2001
Foot-and-mouth disease - let's come to our senses
It cannot be predicted how many more cases of foot-and-mouth disease will occur as a result of this latest outbreak. But the panic seems certain to reach epidemic proportions.

by Tony Gillandinspiked-science

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