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BSE, COST OF CULLING CATTLE - UK
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A ProMED-mail post
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 22:46:35 -0400
From: Robert A. LaBudde <ral@lcfltd.com>
Source: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy <BSE-L@RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE> &
FSNET
U.K. Deputy Agriculture Minister Jeff Rooker was cited as saying in a
reply in the Commons that between 1993 and 1998, payments to farmers,
abattoir owners, renderers and the hide industry totalled BP 1.638
billion. In a separate Commons reply, he revealed the number of cattle
over 30 months old slaughtered to contain the crisis has topped two
million. Of the 2.2 million animals destroyed, 128,000 have been
incinerated. The rest have been turned into tallow and meat and bone
meal (MBM).
A total of 314,000 tonnes of MBM is in store pending destruction.
Outlining the cost of BSE compensation, Mr Rooker said that between
mid-1993 and mid-1996 payments - all to meat producers - totalled BP
57 million. But during 1996-97 that figure rose sharply to BP 1.077
billion. Meat producers received BP 904 million, the "slaughter
sector" BP 82 million, renderers BP 87 million and the hide industry
BP 4 million.
In 1997-98, producers were expected to get 439 million and renderers
65 - a total of 504 million.
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Michele Gale-Sinex, communications manager
Center for Integrated Ag Systems
UW-Madison College of Ag and Life Sciences
Voice: (608) 262-8018 FAX: (608) 265-3020
http://www.wisc.edu/cias/
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