41.   The representatives said they were expressing outrage on behalf of British farmers.

42.   The news British farmers have been waiting for will end a trade blockade imposed in response to consumer fears about the spread of mad cow disease.

43.   Yet British farmers have begun urging him to start with the selective slaughter program at long last.

44.   In Britain, the practice is outlawed, but British farmers are free under the law to export the animals to countries where they meet the same fate.

45.   British farmers have also called on the government to implement the selective slaughter programme.

46.   British farmers say they should get the most aid because Britain is worst hit by the BSE epidemic.

47.   But he sweetened the pill with a promise that EU funds would be made available to help fund further control measures and to compensate British farmers for lost income.

48.   But the economic stakes involved in the by-products ban are tiny compared with the estimated one billion dollars a year British farmers will lose from the broader ban.

49.   This however would mean ruin for thousands of British farmers and is likely to be fiercely resisted by Britain.

50.   Sharp differences arose over the amount of compensation to be paid from EU coffers to British farmers, officials said.