11.   Could attitudes such as this be signaling the death knell for the beef industry?

12.   Consumers by the millions have cut back on red meat or given it up entirely, forcing a dramatic shakeout in the beef industry that will cost taxpayers dearly.

13.   Experts say the beef industry operates in five-year cycles.

14.   For the U.K. beef industry, the ban has been disastrous.

15.   Ground beef seldom meets those criteria, and some members of the beef industry are looking for an exemption.

16.   In his later years, Robert Mitchum was the voice for the beef industry and Oppenheimer, the brokerage firm.

17.   Indeed, Garden City is part of a golden triangle for the beef industry that includes Dodge City and the nearby town of Liberal.

18.   In the United States, the beef industry said the European Union announcement Wednesday was simply a negotiating tactic.

19.   Indeed, it is startling to realize what a frail scientific base has led toward such momentous consequences for Britain and its beef industry.

20.   Mad cow disease may destroy the British beef industry, topple the government of John Major and slow the push toward European cooperation.