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BSE and Pink Slime: Lessons to Be Learned

Andrew Gunther | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Lean Finely Textured Beef, Animal Welfare, Pink Slime Ground Beef, Bse, Food Safety, Mad Cow Disease, Pink Slime, Food News
Andrew Gunther

Both BSE and the "pink slime" fiasco are the indirect outcomes of the incessant drive to industrialize livestock farming and meat processing.

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Market Scare Over Mad Cow Averted For Now

AP | DAVID PITT | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Mad Cow, Mad Cow Disease, Mad Cow Disease California, Bse, Mad Cow Response, Mad Cow Market Scare, Food News

DES MOINES, Iowa — The announcement that mad cow disease was found in a California cow drew a rapid response this week from the beleaguered Amer...

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Mad Cow California: Stop Feeding Cows Chicken Manure

Michael Greger, M.D. | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Animal Feed, Mad Cow Disease, Poultry Litter, Bse, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, California Mad Cow Disease, Mad Cow, Dairy, Beef, Health, Milk, Public Health, Mad Cow Disease California, California, Food News
Michael Greger, M.D.

Cattle remains are still fed to chickens and the poultry litter is fed back to cows. In this way, prions -- the infectious proteins that cause mad cow disease -- may continue to cycle back into cattle feed and complete the cow "cannibalism" circuit blamed for the spread of the disease.

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Mad Cow California: Stop Weaning Calves on Cattle Blood

Michael Greger, M.D. | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Mad Cow Disease, Bse, Milk Replacer, California Mad Cow Disease, Mad Cow, Dairy, Beef, Milk, Public Health, Mad Cow Disease California, Food News
Michael Greger, M.D.

Let's hope that the newly reported case of mad cow disease in a California dairy cow will renew interest in closing the loopholes in feed regulations that continue to allow the feeding of slaughterhouse waste, blood and manure to farm animals in the United States.

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Mad Cow Case Confirmed In California

Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Mad Cow California, Cattle Futures, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Cattle, Mad Cow Disease, Mad Cow, Video, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Mad Cow Risks, Food Safety, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Usda, Bse, Meat, Mad Cow Disease Prevention, USDA Mad Cow, Slidepollajax, Mad Cow Disease California, Food News

The USDA has confirmed that a case of mad cow disease was found in a California dairy cow. It is the fourth case of mad cow, or bovine spongiform en...

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You Want Chicken Poop With That Steak? Why FDA Should Ban Feces From Feed

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Animal Factory, Animal Feed, Usda, Fda, Cafo, Factory Farm, Prions, Bse, Obama, Cattle Feed, Mad Cow Disease, Chicken Manure, Animals, Healthy Living News
David Kirby

We feed chicken manure to cattle because it's cheap; and because we produce far too much of it to properly dispose of as fertilizer.

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NPR Compares Animal Factory to Sinclair and Schlosser

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mrsa, Factory Farming, The Jungle, Cafo, Swine Flu, Npr, Factory Farms, Bse, David Kirby, Upton Sinclair, Animal Factory, Fast Food Nation, Muckraking, Mad Cow, Food Inc, Cafos, Eric Schlosser, Books News
David Kirby

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is ignorant. We should not ignore the potential for animal factory farming to one day come back and bite us all in our collective, blissful behinds.

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Mad Cow Disease Case Hidden For Weeks By Canadian and U.S. Agencies

HuffPost Citizen Reporting | Nikki Zeichner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Usda, Aphis, RCALF USA, Mad Cow Disease, Cows, Oie, Bse, Cfia, World News

Produced by HuffPost's Citizen Reporting Team On February 25, 2010, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed a recent case of bovine spo...

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