Category: <span>World</span>

CNN.com:

The Netherlands and Belgium have joined Austria by issuing warnings over German beef after the discovery of mad cow disease there.

The Dutch Health Ministry has advised the public not to eat German meat for the time being and local media in Belgium has reported that the government ordered the withdrawal of all German beef from shops.

I just saw footage on ABC World News Now of the French Prime Minister “gorging” (according to ABC News) on beef to try to reassure the public that beef is safe to eat. There were also more shocking clips of the Brittish Minister of Agriculture, feeding burgers to his daughter at the height of the mad cow disease crisis in England, in an attempt to calm the public.

According to sources quoted by ABC News, French beef may now present 20 times the health risk that the English beef did during the mad cow disease crisis there. Wanna go out for a burger?

CNN.com: “An Italian tanker carrying 6,000 tons of toxic chemicals has sunk in the English Channel.”

“The stricken tanker, which was being towed to France, was carrying 4,000 tons of styrene, a hydrocarbon used for making synthetic plastics, as well as isopropyl and methyl ethyl ketone.”

“ATHENS, Greece — Twenty-five people died and more than 60 went missing after a Greek ferry with 511 aboard ran aground and sank off the Aegean island of Paros late on Tuesday.

“The merchant marine ministry said more than 350 people were quickly rescued and taken to ashore by coast guard, trawlers, pleasure craft and fishing boats after the Express Samina ferry foundered in strong winds.”