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I had never really given much thought to what I ate and how it was produced. That is until, in the early 90s, an outbreak of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy – BSE, more commonly known as mad cow disease – led to the slaughter of 4.4 million head of cattle in the United Kingdom in an effort to contain the disease, and to a decade-long ban of British beef exports that ruined that country’s beef industry. The BSE outbreak is thought to have been caused by the practice of supplementing cattle feed with meat-and-bone-meal (MBM) rendered from the remains of other animals. The disease soon crossed over to humans through the consumption of BSE-contaminated beef, a new version of the neurological Creutzveld-Jakob Disease (vCJD) that took its first victim in May 1995 and has killed 177 people to date. In 2013 researchers reported that one in 2,000 people in the UK are carrying the human form of mad cow disease.
The ninth 17+1 summit
[1] between China and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), delayed in 2020 due to the pandemic, was finally held virtually in February 2021. Beijing sought to upgrade the annual interaction with a few ‘firsts’ in this recent summit.
It was for the first time that President Xi Jinping hosted the summit himself instead of Premier Li Keqiang. He introduced a range of additional China-CEE initiatives, including agriculture exports and cloud service dialogues. By offering to double China’s food imports from Eastern Europe over the next five years, it has sought to appeal to the farm sector where poorer rural economies in Eastern Europe feel hardened and undermined by the highly protectionist farming powerhouses of Western Europe. President Xi also proposed to improve conditions for priority access to CEE countries for further dissemination of China’s COVID-19 vaccine, Sinovac, in the region, beyond Serbia and Hungary.
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Two Chinese citizens working at a gold mine in southwestern Nigeria were kidnapped on April 5, China’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Thursday. “Upon learning of it, the Chinese consulate general in Lagos immediately activated emergency response mechanism, urging the Nigerian police to rescue the hostages and ensure their safety, and guiding the enterprise involved to deal with the situation properly,” spokesperson Zhao Lijian told the media in a regular press briefing on April 8.
The incident took place in Nigeria’s Osun state. According to China’s Global Times, a local police spokesperson “said in a statement that around 4 pm that day, a group of criminals attacked the local gold mine and abducted two Chinese citizens. The two men, Zhao Jian, 33, and Wen, 50, were employees at the gold mine.” Two security guards were shot and injured during the attack.