Giveaway Is Held to Ease ‘Mad Cow’ Fears
From Times Wire Reports
About 3,000 people gathered in Marseilles for a barbecue organized by the city’s butchers, who handed out free beef to boost consumer confidence amid growing worries over “mad cow” disease. Public fear about the dangers of eating beef reached panic levels in France this fall when it was discovered that potentially infected meat had made it to supermarket shelves. The number of cows found with the brain-wasting disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, has soared this year in France to more than 90.
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