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This 8-page paper focuses on various questions concening the late 20th century problem of "mad cow" disease in Britain, the resultant ban on British beef throughout the EU, and the resulting British policy on non-cooperation. Also under discussion was the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease during 2001. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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as "mad cow disease") and a similar rare, yet fatal disease in humans (Hunt, 1996). Following that particular announcement, Europe saw the collapse of its beef market, and purchase of
beef by consumers throughout the European Union dropped drastically (Hunt, 1996). Though there were some who believed that certain countries exploited the crisis to boost their own beef exports (Hunt,
1996), there was little doubt that there was a panic throughout Europe when it came to beef. In this paper, well examine
the fallout of the mad cow disease, the ban on British beef and other factors that came to the fore because of globalization. Was the EU justified in banning
British products? Was the immediate intent of the ban to prevent a market collapse rather than to protect the public from BSE?
Given the symptoms of BSE (and given that death could have been the inevitable result), and given the fact that most of the EU leaders believed that BSE wasnt "a
British problem . . . but a European problem," according to Italian Prime Minister Lamberto Dini (CNN, 1996), on the surface, it seems as though yes - perhaps the wisest
course of preventing panic (and a potential market collapse of commodities) was to ban British beef from the EU. One main fallout
from the spread of BSE was that consumers more and more were avoiding eating beef, fearful it came from British farms (CNN, 1996). The concern of then British Prime Minister
John Majors was that not only was beef consumption falling throughout the UK, it had dropped dramatically in many other European countries as well (CNN, 1996).
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