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Search for in All SectionscentralpoliticsITsciencelibertiesculturehealthlife SECTIONS central politics IT science liberties culture health life ISSUES spiked-proposals On drugs No smoking Election 2001 Me and my vote The race card May Day protests Foot-and-mouth Modern life Don't blow IT On animals Global warming Blood clots Love and sex Mad cow panic Body parts The Holocaust Go to: spiked-central Issues: Foot-and-mouth 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 Read on... Printer-friendly version 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 Read on... Printer-friendly version 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 Read on... Printer-friendly version 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 Read on... Printer-friendly version 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 Read on... Printer-friendly version Article12 April 2001 Dirty man of Europe: a phrasebook Essential vocab for Brits abroad this Easter. by Josie Appletoninspiked-life Read on... Printer-friendly version 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 Read on... Printer-friendly version 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 Read on... Printer-friendly version 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 Read on... Printer-friendly version 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 Read on... Printer-friendly version 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 Read on... Printer-friendly version 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 Read on... Printer-friendly version Article12 March 2001 National life is indefinitely postponed How Britain, paralysed by fear, is closing itself down. by Josie Appletoninspiked-life Read on... Printer-friendly version 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.' Columnsinspiked-health Read on... Printer-friendly version 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?' Columnsinspiked-life Read on... Printer-friendly version 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?' Columnsinspiked-central Read on... Printer-friendly version 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 Read on... Printer-friendly version 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 Read on... Printer-friendly version What is spiked? spiked is a website for those who want to see some change in the real world as well as the virtual one. If you think that the power of the internet could be used for something more than shopping and pseudo-sex, get spiked. Read on... Corrections | Terms & Conditions | spiked, Signet House, 49-51 Farringdon Road, London, EC1M 3JP Email: info@spiked-online.com © spiked 2000-2001 All rights reserved.