Big beef
OPRAH WINFREY, America's most famous chat-show hostess, may have grabbed the headlines (and infuriated Texas's ranchers) by daring to disparage the safety of the burger. But this is an issue of wider international concern. The safety of meat was also the main item of discussion at a meeting of the European Union's farm ministers on January 20th.
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