Randy Shore’s blog: Cheap and easy pulled pork at home (Vancouver Sun) Randy Shore blogs about how to make cheap and easy pulled pork at home. [News Source]

Does vCJD still pose a major public health threat? Mostly forgotten by the public, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) is still very much with us, incubating in possibly thousands of people. Estimates of the number of people infected range from 1 in 4,000 to 1 in 20,000... [News Source]

MELVINDALE: ‘Dirty Jobs’ TV show tapes episode at cow bone processing plant (The News-Herald) MELVINDALE — Mike Rowe got dirty Downriver. Ebonex Corp., a family owned company specializing in charred animal bones, was the subject for an episode of the Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs” that will air at 9 p.m. Tuesday. [News Source]

The world is ‘Babies’ filmmaker’s playpen (USA Today) Documentary follows four wee ones from birth. [News Source]

Beef imports from BSE nations not traced (Sydney Morning Herald) Beef imported to Australia from countries where there has been an outbreak of mad cow disease will not be traced back to individual farms. [News Source]

USDA ends livestock tracking program. The Obama administration is killing a national livestock tracking program that never got off the ground amid widespread complaints by farmers and ranchers. The federally run ID system was proposed after the discovery of the nation's first case of mad cow disease in 2003. [News Source]

Prion Leaves Lasting Mark On Memory (redOrbit) Prions are a special class of proteins best known as the source for mad cow and other neurodegenerative diseases. [News Source]

U.S. Cuts Animal-Tracking Plan Created After Mad Cow (Update2) (Bloomberg) Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is scrapping a national system to track livestock from birth to slaughter as industry opposition led to the failure of a voluntary program created after cases of mad cow disease emerged starting in 2003. [News Source]

Mad Cow meat fears (Northern Star) Bill and Lyn Bolin, who farm beef on their Eden Creek property, have slammed beef industry associations over their subservience to the Federal Government. They say that allowing beef to be imported from BSE-affected countries will cripple the local industry. [News Source]

USDA plans to drop program to trace livestock. Faced with stiff resistance from ranchers and farmers, the Obama administration has decided to scrap a national program intended to help authorities quickly identify and track livestock in the event of an animal disease outbreak. [News Source]