The Anglo-German Pig War  

 

 Some frightening news  was once released

when rabies hit the German East:

. . . 

The German Forestry Commission

was given veterinary permission

to send the carcasses of foxes

in special oak and pine-tree boxes

to farmers in financial need

as concentrated piglet feed.

 . . .      

The Germans put all doubts aside

until a lot of pigs had died

of some disease called PFC

which caused a national tragedy .

 . . .    

In Downing Street  they made provisions

for crucial national decisions.

And British threats are not just talk

they put a ban on German pork .

. . .  

Today the press announced relieved

that things were not as one believed:

. . .   

lt was not fatal PFC

but only harmless BSE.

. . .

(PFC = Porcular Forunculous Corosis )

 

(a story of 18 verses)

                                                          (June 1996)                  

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