AR-News: (US TN) Like battered fighter, cattle industry totters

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Mad Cow Scare 
By Jane Roberts
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January 11, 2004 
It was no party at the Somerville livestock auction Tuesday. 
Sales were down by half as the restless new year's crowd waited for a sign - 
any hint that a single mad cow case in Washington state won't knock the bottom 
out of the beef industry. 
Wayne Thomas, a Hickory Withe, Tenn., producer waiting to sell 100 calves - a 
third of his annual production - is suddenly the face of every American 
cattleman. 
"I planned to sell as quickly as I could after the first of the year. I'm 
holding now and watching this market." 




full story:
http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/business/article/0,1426,MCA_440_2565147,00.html
"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein
My choice for fashion: compassion ... They need it more than we do."
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