a moment of silence please....
Pig From `Babe' Condemned Because of Foot-and-Mouth, Paper Says
2001-06-21 11:16 (New York)
London, June 21 (Bloomberg) -- The pig that starred in the
motion picture ``Babe'' has been ordered to the slaughterhouse by
an English court because the swine may have been in contact with
animals that have foot-and-mouth disease, the New York Post said.
The Ministry of Agriculture condemned the farm where the pig,
named Grunty, lives, the paper said. The farm's owner, Rosemary
Upton, said the ministry made a mistake in condemning her farm
because of a foot-and-mouth scare in the area.
The court made the decision because Upton visited one of her
other small farms, which turned out to be infected, the paper
said. Upton told the court she wore gloves, disinfected her shoes
and had no physical contact with the infected livestock.
There was no evidence of infection in the 12 pigs at the farm
where Grunty lives, the paper said, citing Upton. She plans to
appeal the ruling. ``Babe'' was released by Universal Studios, a
unit of Vivendi Universal SA.
(NYP 6-21 3)
For the Web site of the New York Post, see {NYPT <GO>}.
--Rachel Katz in the Princeton newsroom at (609) 279-4116, or at
rkatz3@bloomberg.net/bk
Story illustration: For more stories on foot-and-mouth disease,
see {TNI GEN LVS BN <GO>}. To track the epidemic in the U.K., see
{FMDSBRSC <Index> GP <GO>}. |
