Latest Mad Cow Disease News

How Manning Beef slaughters, processes a cow into a steak (The Press-Enterprise)
Friday March 28th 2008, 11:16 pm

PICO RIVERA - The 1,300-pound steers are led into a 2-foot-wide concrete chute. They make little noise. Some stick their heads out, like dogs looking over a fence. The chute narrows. A gate closes behind the animal. [News Source]

How Manning Beef slaughters, processes a cow into a steak (The Press-Enterprise)
Friday March 28th 2008, 11:08 pm

PICO RIVERA - The 1,300-pound steers are led into a 2-foot-wide concrete chute. They make little noise. Some stick their heads out, like dogs looking over a fence. The chute narrows. A gate closes behind the animal. [News Source]

School Districts That Got Recalled Beef Are Listed (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Friday March 28th 2008, 9:42 pm

The Department of Agriculture released a list of all districts nationwide that received beef included in a recall of meat from a California slaughterhouse. [News Source]

Italy recalls contaminated mozzarella cheese (Straits Times)
Friday March 28th 2008, 8:20 pm

ROME - ITALY ordered a recall of mozzarella cheese potentially contaminated with cancer-causing dioxin, as a widening health scare tainted the reputation of one of its best-known culinary products. [News Source]

School Districts That Got Recalled Beef Are Listed (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Friday March 28th 2008, 5:40 pm

The Department of Agriculture released a list of all districts nationwide that received beef included in a recall of meat from a California slaughterhouse. [News Source]

Texas cattle to revisit Mexico (News 8 Austin)
Friday March 28th 2008, 1:31 pm

Texas breeding cattle tomorrow will cross into Mexico for the first time in more than four years. [News Source]

Lessons learned from largest U.S. meat recall (AG Weekly)
Friday March 28th 2008, 1:22 pm

Not since Upton Sinclair’s 1906 book “The Jungle” has the American meat market been this shaken. [News Source]

The Campania region of Italy produces some of the country’s best mozzarella [AFP] (Aljazeera)
Friday March 28th 2008, 12:53 pm

Italy has ordered a recall of mozzarella cheese potentially contaminated with a cancer-causing dioxin, as a widening health scare tainted the reputation of one of its best-known culinary products. [News Source]

School Districts That Got Recalled Beef Are Listed (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Friday March 28th 2008, 11:41 am

The Department of Agriculture released a list of all districts nationwide that received beef included in a recall of meat from a California slaughterhouse. [News Source]

Kan. Man Died From Mad Cow-Related Disease, Brother Says (Fox News)
Friday March 28th 2008, 9:26 am

A Kansas man who died in January had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which is related to mad cow disease, his brother said this week. [News Source]