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She said, 20 years ago, mad cow disease was really sad. Although only one cow tested positive for the disease, hundreds of cattle had to be killed to protect the food chain. Itle said now ...
Fifty-seven million pounds of beef will hit the grills this holiday as America enjoys its special independence — from mad cow disease. There is no such freedom in Europe. Since January ...
The long wait was apparently over: America had mad cow disease. Only it didn't. One week later came news that the cow had been imported from Canada, leading American meat producers to breath a ...
In what could be a devastating blow to America’s beef industry, federal authorities announced Tuesday that their tests had indicated the first-ever case of mad cow disease in the United States ...
The sad truth is that the firewalls are designed more to protect the meat industry from economic loss than to protect Americans from mad cow. The consequence: American consumers are at an ...
Mad cow disease has been detected in a cow in California, the first time since 2006 that the deadly disease has surfaced in the U.S. What does that mean for those of us who might want to eat a ...
The official name of mad cow disease is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). BSE lesions are characterized by sponge-like changes seen under an ordinary microscope. Eating contaminated meat or ...
A Texas man has died from the rare form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. June 6, 2014— -- intro: A Texas man has died after eating meat from a “mad cow,” making him the fourth person in the ...
WASHINGTON – Major events related to mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE): --May 20, 2003: Scientists announce discovery of lone case of mad cow disease in Canada.
They have these nice big sad eyes. BOYCE: So far, the two-year-old cows seem perfectly healthy. And in lab tests their brain tissues seem to resist the infectious agent that causes mad cow.
When it comes to mad cow disease, the federal government operates on an instinct almost as strong as self-preservation: retaining public trust in meat. Mad cow disease poses a limited risk to ...