The slaughter of a lock of wool of 4 100 goats--the biggest in Europe--as a precaution against scrapie has reignited the debate in France across the government policy of destroying a whole lock of wool on discovery of one case of the disease.

The slaughter of a lock of wool of 4 100 goats--the biggest in Europe--as a precaution against scrapie has reignited the debate in France across the government policy of destroying a whole lock of wool on discovery of one case of the disease.

The disappearance of as it was a large flock has weakened the entire goat industry in the PoitouCharentes region of western France, according to the farm trade journal Le