Latest Mad Cow Disease News

Chefs Say ‘No Way’ To Bluefin Tuna (redOrbit)
Friday November 27th 2009, 3:08 pm

No matter the cost, French chefs have decided to keep bluefin tuna and any other threatened fish species off their menus.Environmentalists say bluefin tuna faces the threat of extinction because of overfishing and want its trade banned by CITES, the UN body that rules on wildlife trade.Olivier Roellinger, one of the country's greatest chefs, told AFP that with half of the fish eaten in Europe ... [News Source]

NEWS UPDATE: Study shows CWD effort is failing (The Sauk Prairie Eagle)
Friday November 27th 2009, 10:43 am

Wisconsin's gun-deer season is under way this week, but efforts to manage a threat to future deer hunts - chronic wasting disease - are having little effect, despite seven years and nearly $41 million in state and federal spending, data and interviews show. [News Source]

Help send Hunstanton CJD dad on Man Utd trip (Lynn News)
Friday November 27th 2009, 7:38 am

THE family of a West Norfolk dad thought to be among the youngest in Britain to have contracted the human form of Mad Cow Disease want support to make a trip to his beloved Manchester United reality. (27/11/2009 11:17:59) [News Source]

Artist makes sculptures from cardboard (Daily Telegraph)
Friday November 27th 2009, 4:15 am

Artist Chris Gilmour has made sculptures sold around the world using only cardboard and glue. [News Source]

Top French chefs take bluefin tuna off the menu (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Friday November 27th 2009, 1:59 am

Top French chefs this week pledged to keep bluefin tuna and other threatened fish species off the menu, whatever the cost. [News Source]

Study: CWD effort failing (Portage Daily Register)
Friday November 27th 2009, 12:34 am

Wisconsin's gun-deer season is under way this week, but efforts to manage a threat to future deer hunts - chronic wasting disease - are having little effect, despite seven years and nearly $41 million in state and federal spending, data and interviews show. [News Source]