31.   Last week, Shoichi Nakagawa, the agriculture minister, ate cloned beef at a tasting party to dispel anxiety.

32.   Mad cow disease is the common name for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, which can be contracted by eating comtaminated beef.

33.   No longer can most people eat beef five or six times a week.

34.   Proper cooking will kill the bacteria, but many people have grown used to eating their beef rare or raw.

35.   Scientists are investigating whether Britons affected by mad cow disease might have become ill from eating tainted beef.

36.   She said that she herself never ate ground beef but that she was feeding her husband and children.

37.   Some scientists claim that eating infected beef is linked to contracting CJD.

38.   Stephen Dorrell, the U.K. health secretary, sought to reassure the public that children were unlikely to be at risk from eating infected beef.

39.   That measure alone, European officials acknowledged, would not go anywhere towards reassuring European consumers that it is safe to eat beef.

40.   The chickens eat fish, the fish eat beef, the beef eat lamb.