Recalled beef ends up in eight local school districts. 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 . 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. 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) 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) 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) 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) 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]

How Manning Beef slaughters, processes a cow into a steak (The Press-Enterprise) 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) 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) 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]