Neb. Slaughterhouse Subject to Beef Ban Cited for Alleged Safety Violations (Insurance Journal) Four months after beef from a Hastings slaughterhouse was rejected in South Korea over fears of mad cow disease, the slaughterhouse owner faces $180,900 in fines related to 37 alleged safety and healt [News Source]

GeneThera’s Mad Cow Testing (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance) GeneThera, Inc. announced today that is in the process of validating its Mad Cow test. [News Source]

Your Views: Thursday’s selection on global warming page 2 (The New Zealand Herald) Stuart So 650,000 years ago CO2 levels were the same as they are now. I didn't realise we had a highly developed technological civilisation that long ago. Seeing as we are apparently the only species on the earth that can apparently affect these levels. Y2K, SARS, Mad Cow here we go again. [News Source]