January 11, 2001
		Mad Cow Furor Erupts German Cabinet German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder replaced health and agriculture ministers Wednesday, naming new officials who will step in for those who left over Germany's mishandling of the growing mad cow disease crisis. With public confidence in Schroeder's government plummeting, he said Tuesday that the crisis showed that Germany's farm industry would have to be restructured. "It's high time for a new course in the kind of agriculture and food we have," Schroeder told a news conference. "We have to produce what is healthy, not just what can be sold." The most striking change Schroeder enacted was hiring Greens Party co-leader Renate Kuenast to lead the fight against the spread of the disease. Kuenast has called for bringing agriculture "close to nature."