Schools, burger chains halt use of beef from slaughterhouse (North County Times) LOS ANGELES -- Two major hamburger chains and dozens of school districts around the nation have banned meat from a Chino slaughterhouse after a video showed workers brutalizing sick and crippled cows, officials said Friday. [News Source]

Many WA school districts stop serving some or all beef (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) School districts around the state have stopped serving some or all beef because of a federal investigation into a slaughterhouse. But experts say the meat should pose little hazard. [News Source]

Wildlife managers prepare emergency feeding plans for big game (Summit Daily News) GRAND JUNCTION Winter storms are taking a toll on wildlife in northwest Colorado and state wildlife biologists are monitoring conditions to determine if emergency feeding for big game should be expanded from the west-central part of the state. [News Source]

Potentially tainted beef removed from WA school menus (KING5 Seattle) An undercover probe inside a slaughterhouse has prompted about more than 100 Washington school districts to remove the potentially tainted beef.Undercover video shows sick cows [News Source]

Calif. college suspends blood drives over federal gay donor ban (The Daily Comet) SAN FRANCISCO A Bay Area university has suspended all campus blood drives because of a long-standing government policy that bars gay men from donating blood, putting renewed attention on an issue that has been a sore spot at many liberal colleges. [News Source]

Examiner.com Related Articles: (The San Francisco Examiner) The American Red Cross and other national organizations that run blood drives have been pushing the FDA to revise its recommendation preventing them from accepting blood from men who have had sex with other men at any time since 1977. [News Source]

Meat From Downed Cows Shipped To Tri-State (WLWT-TV Cincinnati) Sick and injured cows are sent to slaughter in California, and millions of pounds of beef from that slaughterhouse arrive for sale in the Tri-state. [News Source]

Schools, Burger Chains Ban Targeted Beef (AP via Yahoo! Finance) The hamburger chains Jack-In-the-Box and In-N-Out as well more than 150 school districts around the nation have banned meat from a Chino slaughterhouse after a video showed workers brutalizing sick and crippled cows, officials said Friday. [News Source]

Restaurants, Schools Ban SoCal Meat After Graphic Cow Video (NBC 4 Los Angeles) Two major hamburger chains and dozens of school districts around the nation ban meat from a Chino slaughterhouse after a video showed workers brutalizing sick and crippled cows. [News Source]

Examiner.com Related Articles: (The San Francisco Examiner) The schools still are offering beef salami and beef bologna, along with chicken, fish and cheese. Two major fast-food chains, Jack-In-the-Box and In-N-Out , said they would not use beef from the Chino slaughterhouse. [News Source]