By Charles Abbott WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The United States is expected to get the top safety rating for mad cow disease in spr...
Five nations have banned imports of beef from Brazil, the world's largest beef exporter, following a long-delayed report released on Dec. 7 detailing ...
FRESNO, Calif. -- A California Holstein discovered to have mad cow disease in April was an isolated case and didn't pose a threat to the food supply, ...
FRESNO, Calif. -- Investigators looking into California's first case of mad cow disease say they have tracked down at least one of her offspring in an...
FRESNO, Calif. — The California dairy cow found to have mad cow disease was very old for a milk producer and had been euthanized after it became...
This recent case of mad cow disease could be an isolated case. It could amount to nothing more than a fleeting news item. That, certainly, is what the U.S. meat industry would like officials to think, and what it would like consumers to believe.
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia became the first country to suspend imports of U.S. beef Thursday following the discovery this week of an American dai...
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...
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.
* Officials say no threat to humans, did not enter food chain * Major foreign buyers say will continue to import ...
SEOUL, South Korea — Two major South Korean retailers pulled U.S. beef from their stores Wednesday following the discovery of mad cow disease in...
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.
HANFORD, Calif. — A non-descript building in the heart of California's dairy country has become the focus of intense scrutiny now that mad cow d...
HANFORD, Calif. -- A senior manager with a California rendering company said Tuesday a cow at its Hanford, Calif., transfer station tested positive fo...
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...
Washington dumped some more bad news Friday afternoon when the USDA's Office of Inspector General issued a damning and unsettling report on the department's "National Residue Program for Cattle."
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.
