Latest Mad Cow Disease News

Peace burgers anyone? Heartless thugs make off with Seth Low JHS cow (New York Post)
Tuesday February 09th 2010, 9:41 pm

It was a sight to give anyone a “cow-niption”: a poster desperately seeking a life-size fiberglass “peace” bovine that recently disappeared from its grazing spot in front of Seth Low Intermediate School.“Missing,” the poster found peppered around the gravesend School on Avenue P and west 12th Street explained, sparking... [News Source]

Prion Leaves Lasting Mark on Memory (US News & World Report)
Tuesday February 09th 2010, 10:07 am

Researchers suggest that a prion-like protein may participate in memory in higher eukaryotes. [News Source]

Six British soldiers in court over Spanish restaurant brawl (Times Online)
Tuesday February 09th 2010, 9:36 am

Six British soldiers were due to appear in court in the Canary Islands today accused of launching a drunken brawl in a restaurant in a tourist resort. [News Source]

MELVINDALE: ‘Dirty Jobs’ TV show tapes episode at cow bone processing plant (The News-Herald)
Tuesday February 09th 2010, 7:32 am

MELVINDALE — Mike Rowe got dirty Downriver. Ebonex Corp., a family owned company specializing in charred animal bones, was the subject for an episode of the Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs” that will air at 9 p.m. Tuesday. [News Source]

Reader views (0) (Evening Standard)
Tuesday February 09th 2010, 6:33 am

Five British soldiers have been arrested after allegedly attacking staff and customers at a restaurant called The Mad Cow on Lanzarote. [News Source]

US businesses in Taiwan urge trade talks (AFP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Tuesday February 09th 2010, 2:19 am

The American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei, a group representing US businesses in Taiwan, Tuesday urged Washington to resume trade and investment talks with the island despite a row over beef imports. [News Source]

US businesses in Taiwan urge trade talks (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Tuesday February 09th 2010, 2:18 am

The American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei, a group representing US businesses in Taiwan, Tuesday urged Washington to resume trade and investment talks with the island despite a row over beef imports. [News Source]

USDA Scraps Bush-era Animal Disease Traceability System (Environment News Service)
Tuesday February 09th 2010, 2:18 am

, February 8, 2010 (ENS) - In an effort to win support from ranchers and farmers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will develop a new framework for animal disease traceability, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Friday. [News Source]