For some local Jews, kosher isn’t enough (Austin American-Statesman) Malka Dubrawsky and her husband, Robert Trent, decided to go vegetarian after she heard a radio show about mad cow disease, she said. [News Source]

Rebellion on the Range Over a Cattle ID Plan (New York Times) Federally recommended microchips for livestock that is intended to speed the tracing of animal diseases has caused an uproar among ranchers. [News Source]

Could Eating Farmed Fish Lead To Mad Cow Disease? (redOrbit) Scientists have raised concern over the potential of people contracting Creutzfeldt Jakob disease — the human form of "mad cow disease" — from eating farmed-raised fish that are fed byproducts rendered from cows, Reuters reported.Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, which is commonly referred to as Mad cow disease, is a fatal brain disease in cattle that may cause Creutzfeldt Jakob disease in ... [News Source]

County could become home to nation’s largest slaughterhouse. A proposed project that would make Oswego County the guinea pig for the nation’s largest livestock slaughterhouse is being met with many questions from both the farming community and lawmakers. [News Source]

Risk of mad cow disease from farmed fish? Three US scientists are concern about the potential of people contracting Creutzfeldt Jakob disease -- the human form of "mad cow disease" -- from eating farmed fish who are fed byproducts rendered from cows. [News Source]

County could become home to nation’s largest slaughterhouse. A proposed project that would make Oswego County the guinea pig for the nation’s largest livestock slaughterhouse is being met with many questions from both the farming community and lawmakers. [News Source]

Risk of mad cow disease from farmed fish? Three US scientists are concern about the potential of people contracting Creutzfeldt Jakob disease -- the human form of "mad cow disease" -- from eating farmed fish who are fed byproducts rendered from cows. [News Source]

Lessons in nature (Kitchener - Waterloo Record) (Jun 27, 2009) -- For Doug Wilson, the image of an emerging butterfly could be too obvious a metaphor for his own life story. [News Source]

Catfish fight could hurt beef producers (Billings Gazette) An international fight over catfish could undo U.S. relations with the third-largest foreign buyer of American beef. Catfish farmers in the Mississippi Delta want to block importation of pangasius fish from Vietnam. The fish are similar, although pang ... [News Source]

Catfish fight could hurt beef producers (Billings Gazette) An international fight over catfish could undo U.S. relations with the third-largest foreign buyer of American beef. [News Source]