Rarely has a crisis illustrated so clearly the power of perception over fact than the BSE saga that has so plagued Britain over the last couple of years. Despite Oprah Winfrey's denunciation of the beefburger, you are more likely to be hit by a meteorite than contract CJD, the brain disorder which has been associated with beef infected with BSE. Which is why it only makes sense that the EU is finally lifting the 32-month-old export ban on British beef. ...