21.   British cattle apparently were infected with BSE when they ate feed supplemented with the ground-up carcases of sheep infected with the brain-wasting disease scrapie.

22.   But British cattle were given a reprieve as cattlemen, marketers and slaughterhouses tried to figure out how to carry out the plan.

23.   China banned imports of British cattle and other cloven-footed animals on Friday.

24.   Consumers are shunning British beef after a possible link was established between a lethal human brain disease and its animal equivalent in British cattle.

25.   EU farm ministers met in emergency session Monday to debate ways to calm the consumer scare over mad cow disease, including a mass slaughter of British cattle.

26.   EU officials said there is no indication the beef was from British cattle that had mad cow disease.

27.   European Union farm ministers resumed talks Tuesday on proposals to fund the emergency destruction of millions of British cattle in an effort to allay fears of mad cow disease.

28.   European Union farm ministers resumed talks Tuesday on proposals to fund the emergency destruction of millions of British cattle to allay fears of mad cow disease.

29.   EU officials stressed Britain had not yet met the conditions set last month and that the ban on all exports of British cattle products remained in place.

30.   European officials insisted they would not be bullied into ending the ban imposed eight weeks ago because of fears about the mad cow disease infecting British cattle.