Kill Or Cure
What it does, however, is make them produce less milk and meat. A more humane route might be to vaccinate all livestock. But that is expensive. British stock would no longer be deemed “pure,” and other countries would refuse to import it. That’s a loss of nearly $1 billion to the nation’s economy. So, as in past outbreaks, the government slaughters by suspicion until the crisis gets totally out of hand....