Study offers clues to Alzheimer’s causes (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Scientists have been able to induce brain disease in mice by injecting extracts of the brains of people who died of Alzheimer's disease, a finding that suggests that Alzheimer's has some characteristics of prion brain disorders such as mad cow ... [News Source]

Consumers are going to the source for pastured beef, pork, poultry and eggs. Like a fast-growing number of American carnivores, the Hagan family is opting out of the mega-feedlot meat system. [News Source]

Alzheimer’s may ’seed’ itself like mad cow disease (New Scientist) Malformed proteins alone can trigger the brain plaques seen in Alzheimer’s, in a process reminiscent of prion diseases, a study in mice reveals [News Source]

BSE likely came from feed (Iowa Farmer) OTTAWA (AP) -- An Alberta, Canada, dairy cow that was diagnosed last month with BSE (mad-cow disease) probably contracted the disease from contaminated feed, federal regulators said. [News Source]

Any way you slice it, Mad Cow’s intimate ‘Sweeney Todd’ is a devilishly tasty morsel of musical theater. (Orlando Sentinel) Theater people know how to make magic. [News Source]

WORLD (Kansas City Star) Japan is set to import 15,000 tons of U.S. beef in 2006, just a fraction of what it bought before a two-year hiatus spurred by a scare over mad cow disease, a trade group said. The total of 15,000 tons is just 7.5 percent of the 200,000 tons valued at $1.4 billion that Japan imported in 2003 before the ban was imposed. [News Source]

Review: Grisly ‘Sweeney Todd’ sinfully entertaining (Florida Today) Mad Cow stuns with provocative production of "Sweeney Todd." [News Source]

Port authority seizes imported animal feed (The Jakarta Post) The Tanjung Priok Port Authority has seized 167 containers of animal feed, which arrived at the port from Spain last week. Contaminated feed is widely believed to have started the mad cow epidemic. [News Source]