BEEF CRISIS: Quotes
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Paul Preston, head of Macdonald's UK
`My predecessors and my department have done everything that we ought to have done fully and properly.'
Douglas Hogg, agriculture minister
`I dare say I will go back to hamburgers as long as I can be sure they aren't made from British beef.'
David Ward, McDonald's customer
`Our beef sales this weekend have virtually doubled. People know we have never had a case of BSE.'
Brian Frith, Kent farmer
`We are supporting measures that will effectively ring fence this BSE problem... to Britain.'
Ivan Yates, Irish agriculture minister
`It's just like smoking. They tell you what the dangers are and it's up to you if you smoke.'
Tony Gemmill,
McDonald's customer
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