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A realistic assessment of the risk to human health from bovine spongiform encephalopathy, rather than the hollow pronouncement that "beef is safe" would best counter public fears in Britain.
Is the global greenhouse potentially a calamity to be avoided at all costs? Or an unavoidable disaster of incalculable cost? One view is that the best greenhouse is that which, in the broadest sense, costs least.
