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It was bad enough when anyone having a burger at McDonald's had to fuss over whether exposure to mad cow disease might eventually lead to their own brain short-circuiting. Bases to End * 39 More Breaking News * 40 Wire Service Photo Gallery Tech Jobs Partner 41 Today's the Day. Now the ever-worsening scare over foot-and-mouth disease has upped the ante. Experts say humans face no health threat from exposure to the virus that affects cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle, sheep, pigs and goats. For example, there was a major outbreak in Britain in 1967 and the only person who got sick had nothing worse than flu symptoms. The seismic shift in attitudes toward eating is so profound, it has even had a major impact on Berlin's most famous monument to fine eating, the palatial department store known as KaDeWe, for Kaufhaus des Westens. KaDeWe has the largest (and most sumptuous) food section of any department store in Europe, but food-shopping there isn't what it used to be. The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has so far mostly been confined to the United Kingdom, where it has become so severe a problem that thousands of animals have been slaughtered. Even Prince Charles has joined the effort to combat the spread of the disease. Last week the disease was also detected in France among dairy cattle near a farm that had imported sheep from Britain. The threat of the disease spreading, perhaps even sweeping the continent, has generated massive newspaper and television coverage, guaranteeing that just about everyone has had the opportunity to reconsider eating the dead flesh of other creatures. That drop was mostly attributable to fear of bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- and its human counterpart, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Not only are they flooded with new visitors, they are being asked to provide tips on how to cook vegetarian meals to tempt any palate. Right now, she's working on a small hamburger-like patty made from coriander, white beans and lentils, cooked in oil, along with a sauce of yogurt and saffron or a mango relish. Over at KaDeWe, people are gobbling up other food options as well. They are just scared, and they think they can live without it," said Jule Locker, 25, a graduate student in geography at Berlin's Humboldt University. Still, established vegetarians are somewhat skeptical about the host of new converts to the cause of avoiding meat. I think some people who aren't eating meat now don't really mean it. Your use of this website constitutes acceptance of the Lycos 70 Privacy Policy and 71 Terms & Conditions Note: You are reading this message either because you can not see our css files (served from Akamai for performance reasons), or because you do not have a standards-compliant browser.
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