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Recent News
January 26, 2004
Why factory farms and mass trade make for a world where disease travels far and fast
Experts fear flu virus may spread to other countries and mutate, threatening a human pandemic
'Firewall' cracks could raise U.S. mad cow risk
A federal rule banning high-risk mammal parts from animal feed is the nation's main defense against mad cow disease -- what U.S. officials call a "firewall" built in 1997 to prevent an epidemic. But more than a month after the Dec. 23 discovery of the nation's first animal with mad cow, in Washington state, several cracks persist that may weaken that firewall:
Beef lobby blocks action on mad cow, activists say
A group of activists and consumer advocates is accusing the U.S. government of doing too little to stop the spread of mad cow disease in this country because of pressure from the powerful beef industry.
Avian flu: Governments stumble as poultry industry reels
The WHO calls the massive simultaneous outbreak "historically unprecedented" and is upgrading warnings constantly, urging governments to slaughter whole poultry populations.
January 23, 2004
Is the beef safe? Who knows?
My name is Dave and I work at Vern's Moses Lake Meats...The USDA had told the world that the mad cow had been slaughtered here, but it was not in the food chain. A blatant lie. It was one of many.
Lab challenges usual theory on mad cow
Most of the scientists here at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a branch of the National Institutes of Health, accept that this kind of "cross-species" transfer of a TSE can, on rare occasions, take place.
Mad cow – symptom of a system
The discovery of Mad Cow disease on a Washington farm has touched off a firestorm about U.S. regulations to prevent this deadly disease. But Mad Cow represents much deeper perils of a global industrial food system, accelerated by recent trade agreements.
January 22, 2004
Vegetarian diet: A healthy alternative
Are you considering a vegetarian diet but not sure where to begin? Adopting a plant-based diet may be as easy as making a few substitutions.
January 21, 2004
Burying heads over mad cow
The initial reaction of U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman to news that
a BSE-infected cow had been found in the U.S. was a plea to eat more beef.
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Industrial meat production causes more problems than it solves
A massive new scientific study that found high contamination levels in farmed salmon made headlines last week, but the results shouldn't really be surprising.
January 20, 2004
Mad cow fears have abated, but it's uncertain the risk is any less
Mainstream media has, for the most part, dutifully regurgitated USDA and industry press releases, assuring the public that beef is safe. Scientists are not so certain.
Cowed: Don't expect the government to protect you from mad cow disease
It seems as though our government is trying hard not to track the spread of CJD.
Japan: U.S., Canada Beef Prone to Disease
A Japanese team that returned Monday from a mission to investigate the United States' first confirmed case of mad cow disease warned that American and Canadian cows were still vulnerable to an outbreak of the illness.
Anti-PETA actions ruled improper
A federal judge has ruled a school principal and resource officer violated the constitutional rights of animal-rights protesters when they shut down a demonstration and forced the group off a sidewalk near a school five years ago.
January 16, 2004
PETA's impotence ad a no-no with CBS
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - This is PETA's Super Bowl ad pitch to CBS: Two scantily clad women try to seduce a pizza man but discover that he can't deliver "the goods". CBS rejected the ad. PETA says the network isn't playing fair.
Italy reports two new cases of mad cow disease
ROME — Two Italian cows from separate breeding farms in northern Italy have tested positive for mad cow disease - the first cases detected this year, the Health Ministry said Thursday.
Inspectors: Testing Of U.S. Beef Is Inadequate
A U.S. Department of Agriculture food safety inspector said Thursday that the first reported incidence of mad cow disease in the U.S. food supply was inevitable, given loopholes in the inspection system.
January 15, 2004
News to chew on: Mad cow disease and salmon scares may make this the year of the veggie
These are good times for vegetarians. They'd really rather not gloat, but still -- praise the tofu!
Cattle feed ban allows cow blood to be fed to calves
The formula that some farmers feed their dairy calves looks nothing like mother's milk. It's brown and is derived from cattle blood.
January 14, 2004
Assessing Risks of Mad Cow: Other Animals Likely Infected, Scientists Say
In 1990, when the federal government designed a surveillance system to detect mad cow disease, scientists said the tests would find one case of the disease if there were 45 infected cattle in the country.
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
There once was a pet pig who sang to the moon and, best of all, escaped the fate of her porcine peers. Piglet's story is Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's powerful introduction to his exploration of the emotional lives of billions of pigs, cows, chickens and other animals destined for slaughter and rendering into meat.
Mad cow's untold story: Studies quietly raise questions about threat to humans
Below the drumbeat of reassurances from government and the cattle industry
that mad cow disease poses no threat to public health, a small universe of
scientists working on a family of related illnesses are finding disturbing
evidence to the contrary.
January 13, 2004
Culture of indifference leaves America open to BSE
It was no surprise, it went, that a sick animal had been brought to the slaughter, but it was absolutely shocking that the discovery had ever become public.
Experts Seek Analysis of Human Mad Cow
Scientists have yet to document a single U.S. case of someone getting the human version of mad cow disease from contaminated beef. Then again, they might not be looking hard enough.
January 12, 2004
Ex-Cattleman's Warning Was No Bum Steer: Rancher Raised Flag on Mad Cow Long Ago
There's a stereotype about vegans. That they're zealots, loud-mouthed people who throw blood on meat-fattened CEOs, who ridicule people who wear leather shoelaces, who corner you at parties and assault you with diatribes about cruelty. Howard Lyman, 65, is not like that.
An issue comes to a head
North Americans haven't tested rigorously enough for mad-cow disease. Have we underestimated its prevalence in our midst? demands science writer
Have Millions of Americans Been Infected with a Cow Cancer Virus?
Lost in the recent media flurry over Mad Cow disease, a provocative
study was released in the latest issue of AIDS Research and Human
Retroviruses.
Animal Product Consumption is Top Risk Factor for Prostate Cancer, Scientists Say
Onions and solar radiation exposure could help prevent prostate cancer, while meat and dairy products could be risk factors, finds a recent 32 country wide study.
January 09, 2004
KFC ACCUSED OF CHICKEN CRUELTY
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (NNPA) - Picture this: A billboard with Col. Sanders spattered in blood and clutching a terrified chicken in one hand and a bloody butcher knife in the other.
January 08, 2004
PETA Ad Campaign a Bust - Literally
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals debuted a controversial billboard in the Knoxville market Monday along Interstate 40 West near the Strawberry Plains Pike exit.
Pro-vegetarian PETA launches mad cow Web site
The pro-vegetarian People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals launched its Beef.com Web site Wednesday, happily noting the similarity to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association online address.
January 07, 2004
HOLSTEIN DAIRY COWS AND THE INEFFICIENT EFFICIENCIES OF MODERN FARMING
Sixteen years ago, I met a Holstein cow named Juniper-Mist Bell Paula. She lived in splendid solitude in a stone-walled paddock on a venerable Massachusetts farm. Bell Paula was, in fact, more chicken than cow. Her job was to produce eggs, not milk.
January 06, 2004
Commentary: A Bum Steer On Mad Cow Disease
Despite the USDA's reassurances, many food-safety experts fear that the ban on feeding bovine by-products to other cows won't actually protect America from mad cow disease. That's because it has some gaping loopholes.
Dairy monsters
We used to take it for granted that milk was good for us. But now the industry faces a crisis, with the public questioning such assumptions. So just how healthy is milk?
January 05, 2004
Mad Cow Case Casts Light on Beef Uses
It was just one cow, one lame, worn-out Holstein dragged to slaughter in a corner of the country. But the discovery that she was infected with mad cow disease has forced broader scrutiny of the U.S. food supply.
January 02, 2004
Now fish too can suffer version of mad cow disease
Now fish like sheep, elk and humans could suffer a version of mad cow disease, or BSE, according to preliminary evidence. The results might help reveal how the disease jumps from species to species.
The Cow Jumped Over the U.S.D.A.
Alisa Harrison has worked tirelessly the last two weeks to spread the message that bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, is not a risk to American consumers. As spokeswoman for Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman, Ms. Harrison has helped guide news coverage of the mad cow crisis, issuing statements, managing press conferences and reassuring the world that American beef is safe.
PETA draws bead on KFC
Colonel Sanders was a nice man, right? After all, he's the guy in the white suit with the black horn-rimmed glasses who hooked a nation on his fried chicken. So why is he holding a knife, ready to thrust it into a terrified, featherless chicken?
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