Humane Society of US again scaring people away from good diets? (AG Weekly) The Humane Society of the U.S. has, for years, been trying to frighten people away from consuming meat, milk and eggs -- but its recent testimony before a congressional committee reached a new low when the HSUS president, Wayne Pacelle, made the unsupported claim that pigs could be harboring the infamous and deadly British ‘mad cow” disease. [News Source]

Japan group asks U.S. Congress for tighter measures against BSE (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News) _ A group of Japanese Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease victims and their lawyers on Monday asked the U.S. Congress to help tighten oversight of American beef exports to Japan and nip the outbreak of mad cow disease in the bud. [News Source]

Slaughterhouse owners howl. The recycling system that turns the brains, spines and organs of slaughtered animals into chicken feed and dog chow becomes illegal in Canada on Thursday. [News Source]

Infectious Prion Propagated In Foreign Host, Possible CJD And Mad Cow Applications (Medical News Today) Prions -- infectious, oddly-folded proteins that are the main suspects in fatal neurodegenerative diseases such as Cruetzfeldt-Jakob and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" -- remain mostly a mystery to scientists. Very few prions have been fully described. How they infect and propagate is not fully understood. [click link for full article] [News Source]

New insights into prion propagation (News-Medical-Net) Prions - infectious, oddly-folded proteins that are the main suspects in fatal neurodegenerative diseases such as Cruetzfeldt-Jakob and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" - remain mostly a mystery to scientists. [News Source]

Cracking down on mad cow (Montreal Gazette) Cattle carcasses hang from giant hooks on the ceiling at British Columbia's largest slaughterhouse. Rivulets of blood and bone dust trail off into drains on the cement kill-room floor. [News Source]

Humane Society of US again scaring people away from good diets? (AG Weekly) The Humane Society of the U.S. has, for years, been trying to frighten people away from consuming meat, milk and eggs -- but its recent testimony before a congressional committee reached a new low when the HSUS president, Wayne Pacelle, made the unsupported claim that pigs could be harboring the infamous and deadly British ‘mad cow” disease. [News Source]