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Phoenix the Calf

Front-page pictures of a calf that survived the slaughter of cattle on a farm in southern England brought a public outcry and a change in government policy on foot-and-mouth disease. Britain has decided to stop killing healthy animals. NPR's Julie McCarthy in London talks with Linda Wertheimer.

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