Latest Mad Cow Disease News

Are GMOs real or imagined threats?
Wednesday March 31st 2010, 10:00 am

When we say that we can now actually modify genes, many feel a threatened and the usual statement of ‘playing God’ is often invoked. [News Source]

New Japanese leadership brings beef ‘opportunity’ (Tulsa World)
Wednesday March 31st 2010, 3:45 am

New leadership in Japan provides an 'opportunity' to resolve a dispute that has limited beef trade for seven years, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Tuesday. [News Source]

76 Groups Implore USDA to Keep Out Canada’s Mad Cows
Wednesday March 31st 2010, 2:33 am

, March 30, 2010 (ENS) - Seventy-six organizations representing tens of millions of Americans today sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture asking that the agency immediately strengthen U.S. border protections to keep out cows from Canada with mad cow disease. [News Source]

76 Groups Implore USDA to Keep Out Canada’s Mad Cows (Environment News Service)
Wednesday March 31st 2010, 2:33 am

, March 30, 2010 (ENS) - Seventy-six organizations representing tens of millions of Americans today sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture asking that the agency immediately strengthen U.S. border protections to keep out cows from Canada with mad cow disease. [News Source]

Politics › U.S. admits difficulty in getting Japan to fully open beef market (Japan Today)
Wednesday March 31st 2010, 1:47 am

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Tuesday acknowledged the difficulty in convincing Japan to fully reopen its beef market to imports from the United States.… [News Source]

Drugs policy must be formed solely on use of evidence
Wednesday March 31st 2010, 1:21 am

The future surrounding mephedrone and the race to ban it point to a crisis for the Government's use of evidence, potentially as serious as that produced by mad cow disease 20 years ago. Related Stories Will we ever know the truth about Paddy Joe? [News Source]

Drugs policy must be formed solely on use of evidence (Belfast Telegraph)
Wednesday March 31st 2010, 1:21 am

The future surrounding mephedrone and the race to ban it point to a crisis for the Government's use of evidence, potentially as serious as that produced by mad cow disease 20 years ago. Related Stories Will we ever know the truth about Paddy Joe? [News Source]

Drugs policy must be formed solely on use of evidence (Belfast Telegraph)
Wednesday March 31st 2010, 1:21 am

The future surrounding mephedrone and the race to ban it point to a crisis for the Government's use of evidence, potentially as serious as that produced by mad cow disease 20 years ago. Related Stories Will we ever know the truth about Paddy Joe? [News Source]

Drugs policy must be formed solely on use of evidence (Belfast Telegraph)
Wednesday March 31st 2010, 1:21 am

The future surrounding mephedrone and the race to ban it point to a crisis for the Government's use of evidence, potentially as serious as that produced by mad cow disease 20 years ago. Related Stories Will we ever know the truth about Paddy Joe? [News Source]

Drugs policy must be formed solely on use of evidence (Belfast Telegraph)
Wednesday March 31st 2010, 1:21 am

The future surrounding mephedrone and the race to ban it point to a crisis for the Government's use of evidence, potentially as serious as that produced by mad cow disease 20 years ago. Related Stories Will we ever know the truth about Paddy Joe? [News Source]