Latest Mad Cow Disease News

Daddy Oh (The Jamaica Observer)
Saturday March 29th 2008, 8:40 pm

Revel the night, Rob, murder and commit The oldest sins, The newest kinds of ways. Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV It seems as if man cannot get enough of sin, for after exhausting the old ones, committing them in the newest kind of ways, I see where new ones are being thrust upon us. [News Source]

Lessons learned from largest U.S. meat recall (AG Weekly)
Saturday March 29th 2008, 1:21 pm

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

Should biotech piggy go to market?
Saturday March 29th 2008, 12:00 pm

Consumer advocates worry that the FDA is throwing open the barn door to genetically engineered animals too quickly. [News Source]

Recalled beef ends up in eight local school districts.
Saturday March 29th 2008, 12:00 pm

Eight Jackson County OR school districts received some the 143 million pounds of beef that were recalled in late January because of a meat processor's alleged abuse and slaughter of sick cattle. [News Source]

Over 65 OH school districts got recalled beef .
Saturday March 29th 2008, 12:00 pm

Under pressure from lawmakers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday released a complete list of districts involved in the beef recall, the largest in U.S. history. [News Source]

We can’t just trust the experts.
Saturday March 29th 2008, 12:00 pm

The always fatal but slow to incubate mad cow disease is more prevalent in older animals, so when the USDA allowed re-entry of Canadian cattle and beef over the age of 30 months to its market, the U.S. cattlemen's association took it to court. [News Source]

Recall spurs research into replacements for animal-derived drugs (International Herald Tribune)
Saturday March 29th 2008, 8:24 am

Scientists have long worried about drugs like Heparin, but the search for synthetic alternatives has often ended in frustration. [News Source]

McKinney man recalls fatal drunk driving accident (McKinney Messenger)
Saturday March 29th 2008, 6:07 am

It was Dec. 7, 2002 when Mike Cieminski’s life was forever changed. Cieminski, his wife Lisa and their six-year-old daughter, Molly, were driving home from Presbyterian Hospital of Allen when the family was struck by a drunk driver. [News Source]

Recalled beef ends up in eight local school districts (The Mail Tribune)
Saturday March 29th 2008, 5:07 am

Eight Jackson County school districts received some the 143 million pounds of beef that were recalled in late January because of a meat processor's alleged abuse and slaughter of sick cattle, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reported. [News Source]

McKinney man recalls fatal drunk driving accident (McKinney Courier-Gazette)
Saturday March 29th 2008, 1:57 am

It was Dec. 7, 2002 when Mike Cieminski’s life was forever changed. Cieminski, his wife Lisa and their six-year-old daughter, Molly, were driving home from Presbyterian Hospital of Allen when the family was struck by a drunk driver. [News Source]