It now seems likely that Britain will have to engage in selective slaughter.

Britain wanted the union to pay 80 percent of the costs of a selective slaughter.

Britain will in all likelihood be forced to implement some program of selective slaughter among its 11 million cattle.

They are: implementation of a selective slaughter scheme.

There has been a selective slaughter of cattle born and reared alongside confirmed cases of BSE.

Mr. Dorrell, the Government's point man on the issue, has been saying that a selective slaughter was not scientifically justified and would be a "grotesque waste of resources."

There was no talk of selective slaughter as Mr. Hogg told the House of Commons that bans imposed by other European countries were unjustified.

Over the weekend, for example, the Minister of Agriculture, Douglas Hogg, said that a selective slaughter of older animals among Britain's 11 million cattle might be required to restore confidence.

During my two-week stay in 1980, many Cambodians fluent in French - survivors of Pol Pot's selective slaughter of the urban educated - could still be encountered throughout the country.

Douglas Hogg, the Agriculture Minister, told the House of Commons that the selective slaughter of up to 100,000 cattle most at risk of contracting bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the disease's clinical name, would be carried out to satisfy members of the European Union.

And finally, you have to add on the expenditure for private storage aid for veal, for the slaughter programmes for calves and particularly for the programme being implemented in the United Kingdom for animals over 30 months old, as well as for the selective slaughter programme that has yet to be adopted.

The Commission and various Member States regard the realization and implementation of a selective slaughter programme as one of the key elements in the restoration of consumer confidence and in particular as a prerequisite of discussions on the framework programme requested by the British Prime Minister, Mr John Major.