21.   No lawsuit or study will put an end to the friction between the producers and packers, which is as old as the meat industry.

22.   Nethercutt said after the vote that the meat industry deserved more of a role in formulating a safety plan and that this would not undermine public health.

23.   Q. In a report last summer, the inspector general of the Agriculture Department criticized it for reducing its oversight of the meat industry.

24.   Representatives of the meat industry said granting the USDA additional power would not be in the public interest.

25.   Some wince at the idea of one company dominating the meat industry and possibly altering the dynamics of the beef industry.

26.   That was the year Britain banned the use of sheep organs, cattle brains and other animal parts in its meat processing industry.

27.   The disease, which arrived mysteriously in England, has decimated the meat industry and killed dozens of people as it spread across several European nations.

28.   The English meat industry also has been hit by mad cow disease, which can sweep through factory farms.

29.   The general hope among the newer tenants in the area is that as the meat industry relocates, the big trucks will follow.

30.   The economic strain on the beef industry is as much blamed on a concentration of ownership in the meat packing industry as on imports.