• U.S. Continues to Violate WHO Guidelines for Mad Cow Disease
• Could Mad Cow Disease Already be Killing Thousands of Americans Every Year?
• USDA Measures Don't Go Far Enough to Protect the American Public
• USDA Misleading American Public about Beef Safety
• American Beef Industry Places Public at Risk (audio)
• Mad Cow Disease: Plague of the 21st Century?(audio)

• 6/26 Second mad cow case in US?
• 6/22 Bush "Report Card" on America's Mad Cow Crisis
• 6/22 Mad Cow: Worse Than You Think
• 6/21 First U.S. human mad cow patient dies 'awful,awful, awful death'
• 6/15 Mad Cow Test Results Go to Industry Before Public
• June Mad Cow's Wild Ride
• 6/10 USDA Dithering Prompts Mad Cow Cover-Up Fears
  
• 6/9 Cow death sparks virus risk probe
• 6/8 USDA 'deliberately avoiding testing animals that looklike they have the disease?'
  
• 5/24 Seattle Post-Intelligencer ed: "Don't trust USDA about mad cow"
• 5/24 Prions Found in Mutton Meat Muscle
• 5/23 Ranchers doubt USDA chief's beef denial
• 5/23 Book Suggests Link between Meat Processing andAlzheimer's
• 5/22 Washington Post: USDA admits violating ban
• 5/21 Thousands of Young People in Britain May Die of Mad Cow Disease
• 5/20 Canada rejects call for increasing mad cow tests
• 5/20 Senator Demands USDA Chief Resign over Canada Beef Violation
• 5/15 Japanese official accuses USDA of answering only to bigbeef
• 5/14 No mad cow tests at Texas firm in 2004
• 5/11 USDA orders silence on mad cow in Texas
• 5/8 New York Times editorial: " More Mad Cow Mischief"
• 5/7 Omaha World Herald editorial: USDA's'Credibility Gap'
• until 5/7 Tell USDA to exclude cow rectum and anus from human food too
• 5/6 USDA Rescinds Policy Allowing Sale of Canadian Beef
• 5/6 Pressure Mounts for Federal Inquiry Into Possible Mad Cow in Texas
• 5/5 Will the Colorado's new CWD policy threaten human health?
• 5/5 USDA Ordered that Suspected Mad Cow in Texas Not Be Tested
• 5/3 U.S. Policy On Mad Cow In Question
• 5/4 Is USDA Deliberately Ignoring More Mad Cows in U.S.?
• 5/2 Doctor blames hamburger for epidemic of Alzheimer's disease
• 5/1 USDA Investigating Condemned Texas Cow
• 5/1 Consumer Reports calls USDA testing program 'pitifully small'
• 4/30 Canadian ranchers aren't allowed to test their cows either
• 4/30 FDA still hasn't delivered on promised regulations
• 4/27 Editorial calls USDA's mad cow testing plan 'meaningless'
• 4/26 Bush & the Beef Giants: Hiding the Mad Cow Problem
• 4/27 Editorial calls USDA's mad cow testing plan 'meaningless'
• 4/23 Mad-cow question lingers: Was animal a 'downer'?
• 4/23 Stop the government's mad cow disease test ban
• 4/22 Industry Pressure Keeping FDA from Banning Chicken Dung from Feed
• 4/21 USDA's Own Records Contradict their Ban onPrivate Mad Cow Testing
• 4/21 USDA's Obstruction of Mad Cow Testing by Kansas Company is Backfiring
• 4/21 USDA's Own Records Contradict their Ban on Private Mad Cow Testing
• 4/19 Feds Forbid Farm Testing for Mad Cow
• 4/16 Washington Post: Company's mad cow tests blocked
• 4/14 US Still Allows Mad Cow Feeding Practices
• 4/12 Beef Packer to Fight USDA on Mad Cow Testing
• 4/12 Japan continues to insist U.S. test all cows for mad cow disease
• 4/11 USDA claims it will increase surveillance testing
• 4/10 USDA Terrified of Finding More Mad Cows
• 4/10 U.S. Won't Let Company Test All Its Cattle For Mad Cow
• 4/8 58 countries still banning U.S. beef
• 4/2 US continues feeding cow brains to livestock
• 3/31 Mad Cow Disease and Conventional Cosmetics--Consumers Beware
• 3/30 USDA afraid letting company test willhave "ripple effect"
• 3/28 John Stauber's Comments on the Cherry Hill Cluster
• 3/28 New York Times Magazine: The Case of the Cherry Hill Cluster
• 3/28 Mad Cow USA: OCA on Why Meat Eaters Should Go Organic
• 3/26 Connecticut woman had signs of human mad cow
• 3/26 USA Today Says USDA Should Allow U.S. Ranchers to Test Beef
• 3/24 Downer pigs still allowed in human food
• 3/24 Five CJD deaths in north N.J. in 15 months
• 3/22 Factory farms "breeding ground for infections"
• 3/21 Nobel Laureate Expert Won't Eat American Beef
• 3/20 Feed in investigation is traced to 2 mills20 in Canada
• 3/18 California looks to become first state to test beef
• 3/18 Is USDA protecting consumers or corporations?
• 3/17 New York Times Cites OCA on Inadequacy of USDA's Mad Cow Testing
• 3/17 USDA vet says mad cow was a downer
• 3/17 Plan for Sharp Rise in Mad Cow Testing Gets Mixed Reaction
• 3/16 Consumer Groups: New Mad Cow Plan Lacking
• 3/16 Consumers Union Says USDA Plan to Test More Cows for BSE Not Enough
• 3/11 Blood & Manure Still Fed to U.S. Cattle for Two More Months
• 3/9 USDA Obstructing Mad Cow Testing By Beef Producers in the U.S.
• 3/9 USDA claims they will increase testing
• 3/6 Mom sues grocery chain after feeding family mad cow meat
• 3/4 U.S. Opens Criminal Investigation into Mad Cow Case
• 3/4 Did the USDA falsify Mad Cow records?
• 3/4 Key Witness in USDA Mad Cow Fraud Investigation Silent
• 3/3 U.S. ranchers lament loss of bird feces as cattle feed component
• 3/2 Mad-cow beef 4 times amount USDA said
• 3/1 Now Is Not the Time To Drag Our Heels On Testing
• 3/1 Consumer Reports: American consumers may want to forgo beef
• 2/27 Illegal for U.S. beef companies to test their own cows
• 2/27 USDA resists increased mad cow testing
• 2/26 Mad Cow Reminds Consumers About Unappetizing Ag Practices
• 2/26 Expert panel recommends U.S. test 600,000 cows a year
• 2/26 Is chronic wasting disease the new mad cow?
• 2/26 Improve standards to prevent mad cow disease
• 2/26 Senior Scientist Accuses USDA of Undercutting Safety
• 2/25 USDA accused of keeping "heads in sand"
• 2/25 Mad cow to cost U.S. beef industry almost $6 billion
• 2/25 Tainted-Meat Trail Kept from Public
• 2/25 Texas paper editorial: Beef industry in need of tough rules - now
• 2/25 What is the Dollar Value of Not Dying of Mad Cow Disease?
• 2/24 Senator Slams USDA, FDA on Mad Cow
• 2/23 New Evidence Hints Mad Cow Not a Downer
• 2/21 U.S. beef left to rot in Japan's ports
• 2/20 Mad Cow Inquiry Finds Violations of FDA Ban Over 7 Years
• 2/19 Slaughterhouse owners face off with USDA over the truth
• 2/19 Florida newspaper calls for more mad cow testing
• 2/19 Oregon's Largest Paper: Should Veneman Be Fired?
• 2/19 Mad Cow disease raises questions about safety of hamburger
• 2/19 Leading Consumer Group challenges USDA's mad cow claims
• 2/19 Case of human form of mad cow disease suspected in Canada
• 2/18 USDA Accused of Misleading Public on Mad Cow
• 2/18 California wants to revisit beef-recall secrecy pact
• 2/18 Higher rate of CJD in Washington State?
• 2/18 How Now, Mad Cow?
• 2/17 Lawmakers Urge Big Increase in Mad Cow Testing
• 2/17 Debate over type of mad cow tests to use
• 2/17 What does the new strain of mad cow disease mean?
• 2/17 Nearly 90% of Japan consumers want U.S. to test all cattle
• 2/17 New BSE Strain Raises Concern of Broader Threat
• 2/17 New Form of Mad Cow Disease May Be Causing Sporadic CJD
• 2/16 New Strain Adds Evidence that Sporadic CJD may be from Meat
• 2/16 Dangerous cow parts still enter human food supply
• 2/16 Mad cow 'truths' relied on by USDA doubted
• 2/16 Has the U.S. had Mad Cow Disease Since 1985?
• 2/15 Promised U.S. cattle tracking system years away
• 2/14 Expert Panel: More Mad Cow Testing to Protect U.S. Blood Supply
• 2/13 Panel recommends U.S.increase testing by order of magnitude
• 2/13 U.S. again rejects Japan's call for blanket testing on mad cow
• 2/13 Panel studies mad-cow risk from blood transfusions
• 2/13 Experts Say USDA Officials Relied on Flawed Analysis
• 2/12 Mad cow warning from scientists were ignored and stifled
• 2/11 Ex-slaughterhouse whistleblower demands more mad cow testing
• 2/11 Ban sought on risky cattle tissues in pet food
• 2/11 Who is the USDA Working For These Days?
• 2/11 USDA Ignoring Mad Cow Warnings
• 2/11 Concern that pigs and poultry could be silent carriers' of mad cow
• 2/10 Nearly 90% of Japan consumers want U.S. to test all cattle
• 2/10 Physician's group calls on U.S. schools to drop beef from lunches
• 2/10 Mad cow unlikely to fade away silently
• 2/10 Most herdmates of mad cow never found
• 2/10 Japan says US mad cow probe "incomplete"
• 2/9 USDA Lab Suspected of Covering Up Mad Cow Cases
• 2/9 'Mad' deer disease in U.S. may be a 'timebomb'
• 2/9 U.S. Testing Designed to 'Minimize the Chance of Finding Any'
• 2/8 Nobel Laureate: 'As Father' Wonders Why U.S. Unwilling to Test More
• 2/8 'Health' supplements may contain risky cow parts
• 2/7 'Bombshell' panel report predicts more U.S. cases of mad cow
• 2/7 Could pigs, chickens, or even people become silent carriers?
• 2/6 Downer cow brains and spinal cords mostly fed to chickens
• 2/6 NY Times: Stop Feeding Slaughterhouse Waste to Cows
• February 2004 Bush Adminstration in Part to Blame for Mad Cow Debacle
• 2/5 Expert Panel: Mad Cow disease 'circulating' in U.S.
• 2/5 Should U.S. follow U.K. on mad cow?
• 2/5 Mad Cow Just Starting Panel Says
• 2/5 Ban Urged on All Animal Protein for Cattle
• 2/5 Veneman: No timetable for acting on BSE panel proposals
• 2/5 Blood transfusions could mean another wave of human mad cow deaths
• 2/5 Japan renews demand that U.S. test all cattle slaughtered for food
• 2/5 Expert Panel Says Stop Feeding Pig & Chicken Slaughterhouse Waste to Cows
• 2/4 International Expert Panel Says Mad Cow is Likely Spreading in US
• 2/3 Man Who Killed the Mad Cow Questions Safety of Meat Supply
• 2/2 Family struggled with horror of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• 2/2 Mad cow slaughterhouse employee speaks out
• 2/2 Risky mad cow parts in nutritional supplements
• 2/2 60% of drugs use bovine materials somewhere in production process
• 2/1 Mad Cow Case Reveals Food Safety System Flaws
• 2/1 Son wonders if dad's death was caused by cow brain consumption
• 1/31 Mad cow crisis blessing in disguise?
• 1/30 Mad-cow raises fears about safety of blood supply
• 1/30 USDA rejects calls to for expanded testing
• 1/29 Supplements containing cow brain concentrates still on the market
• 1/29 Questions raised about 'weaning calves on blood
• 1/29 Canada Won't Ban Cow Blood In Feed
• 1/29 Pigs and Chickens may be 'Silent Carriers' of Mad Cow Disease
• 1/29 Paperback 'Mad Cow USA' now available
• 1/28 50 Billion Lbs of Dead Animals Rendered; Some Still Fed to Cows
• 1/28 Nobel Laureate: USDA Testing Designed Not to Find Disease
• 1/28 Survey shows most Americans back testing all slaughtered cattle
• 1/28 Mad Cow Puts Blood Supply at Risk
• 1/28 FDA Partially Tightens Up Feed Rules to Stop Spread of Mad Cow
• 1/28 Consumers Union Says New Improved FDA Rules on Mad Cow Don't Go Far Enough
• 1/28 FDA's New Proposed Measures to Stop Mad Cow Are 'Too Little, Too Late"
• 1/28 Agribusiness Pumping Money into Front Groups to Sway Mad Cow Debate
• 1/27 BSE & Other Prion Disease Prevention & Public Health Protection Act
• 1/27 Eighth death linked to New Jersey racetrack
• 1/27 Bush officials overstated findings of Harvard risk study
• 1/27 Cornell expert tells Congress to stop the feeding of brains to animals
• 1/27 FDA to ban blood and excrement in some livestock feed
• 1/26 Criticism of the USDA and its response to mad cow disease
• 1/26 U.S. mad cow testing system 'designed not to find the disease'
• 1/26 Beef Lobby Blocks Action on Mad Cow, Activists Say
• 1/24 Feed makers violated mad cow rules
• 1/24 Worker terms discovery of infected cow 'a fluke'
• 1/24 Families question Sonoma County CJD deaths
• 1/23 Three dispute government claim that mad cow was a downer
• 1/22 CDC investigating CJD cluster in N.J.
• 1/22 Japan: U.S. safeguards based on 'political expediency' not science
• 1/21 CJD clusters could impact beef industry
• 1/21 Three more CJD cases tied to New Jersey
• 1/21 FDA finds animal proteins in feed grain
• 1/21 Changes to Factory Farming System Mad Cow Silver Lining?
• 1/20 New legislation to ban meat from all downer animals
• 1/20 U.S. Beef Industry Treating Mad Cow Just as PR Problem
• 1/20 Risk from U.S. beef remains
• 1/20 Infection 'likely' to Exist in the Muscle Meat
• 1/20 Japanese report calls U.S. safeguards 'weak and inadequate'
• 1/20 FDA explains why cattle byproducts are used in vaccine production
• 1/19 USDA cares more about 'cattle industry profits' than 'public safety'
• 1/19 'No livestock should be fed slaughterhouse waste'
• 1/19 Political Scientist: 'We Should Test Every Cow'
• 1/19 Advanced Meat Recovery systems profiled
• 1/18 Washington Post: point/counterpoint on new mad cow safeguards
• 1/18 U.S. balked at new mad cow safeguards
• 1/18 Two countries, one herd
• 1/18 U.S. CJD surveillance see less than half the human cases
• 1/18 Mad Cow and Sporadic CJD Link 'Striking and Worrisome'
• 1/18 Risk from Mexican cattle imports
• 1/18 How safe is beef? U.S. kept in dark
• 1/17 Mad cow slaughterhouse whistleblower: demand testing
• 1/16 Public Citizen Calls USDA on Negligent Mad Cow Safeguards
• 1/16 Meat Industry as Foxes Guarding Chicken Coop
• 1/16 Validity of U.S. Mad-Cow Tests Questioned
• 1/16 U.S. sausagemakers may have to switch from cow to pig intestines
• 1/16 U.S. may be changing its tune on testing
• 1/16 Most infected cows discovered in Europe were not downers
• 1/15 CBS News investigates New Jersey CJD 'cluster'
• 1/15 Meat industry professionals staying away from processed meats
• 1/26 Fortune magazine column criticizes government handling of Mad Cow
• 1/16 Wall Street Points Out Mad Cow Testing in US Has Been Bogus
• 1/16 Meat harbors risks other than mad cow disease
• 1/16 Americans May be Eating over 1000 Mad Cows Every Year
• 1/16 Could Chickens and Pigs be Silent Carriers For Mad Cow Disease?
• 1/15 Public 'last to know' in current diseased meat recall system
• 1/15 Bush administration 'attack' on health and safety
• 1/15 State Ag board calls for end of feeding cattle remains to chickens
• 1/14 USDA May Have Inflated Number of Cows Tested
• 1/14 Texas Food Safety Professor Criticizes USDA Loopholes
• 1/14 Public health leadership called 'piecemeal,' 'haphazard'
• 1/14 Canada still feeding downer cows to its citizens
• 1/14 USDA: No plans to further increase testing beyond 0.038 million
• 1/14 Canadian National Farmers Union: testing a penny per burger
• 1/13 JP Morgan Reviews Seven U.S. CJD Clusters
• 1/13 70% of U.S. farmers want ban on slaughterhouse waste in animal feed
• 1/13 FDA feed inspections 'severely flawed'
• 1/13 Consumer's Union advocates testing millions of U.S.
• 1/13 Japan's demands on U.S. Mad Cow testing 'very reasonable'
• 1/12 Mad Cow USA: 'business concerns are trumping health concerns'
• 1/12 Whistleblowers Expose Lax U.S. Safeguards
• 1/12 Downer ban previously killed behind closed doors
• 1/12 United Nations Calls on U.S. to Increase Mad Cow Safeguards
• 1/12 Studies Raise Concerns About Human Threat of Mad Cow
• 1/12 Beef industry should have chosen 'regulation over complaining'
• 1/12 Business Week Slams USDA on Mad Cow Measures
• 1/12 Newsweek: Consumer advocates demand changes in food safety regs
• 1/11 USDA Mad Cow Policy Swayed by Corporate Interests
• 1/11 Chicken Droppings 'Disgusting' Source of Cattle Protein
• 1/11 U.S. Calves Still Fed Cow Blood -- 'Stupid' Says Nobel Laureate
• 1/11 Hard for families to get autopsies for CJD deaths
• 1/11 FDA sent dozens of warning letters out citing violations
• 1/10 Former Mayor Ed Koch Decries Inadequate USDA Mad Cow Measures
• 1/10 Nutritional supplements may contain risky cow parts
• 1/10 A family's every day becomes a Mad Cow nightmare
• 1/9 USDA issues 'Declaration of Extraordinary Emergency '
• 1/9 Teamsters call on federal agencies to Ban 'Mad Cow milk'
• 1/9 Exclusive Interview with Mad Cow USA Author Sheldon Rampton
• Mad Cow Flash Animation
• 1/9 Concern raised over fish safety
• 1/8 Beef Industry's Convenience 'More Important' than Public's Health
• 1/8 Concern over blood and bone meal fertilizer in one's garden
• 1/8 Partial slaughterhouse waste feed bans don't work
• 1/8 Canada decides to continue feeding slaughterhouse waste to cattle
• 1/8 Over 200 Japanese public schools remove beef from menus
• 1/8 Germany misses a few hundred tests; U.S. misses a few million
• 1/8 Weaning U.S. Calves with Cow Blood Milk Continues
• 1/8 Current Mad Cow Safeguards 'Anything but Science Based'
• 1/8 USDA Won't Test Because 'They don't want to find it'
• 1/8 Congressman proposes we test all cows slaughtered for human food
• 1/8 Molly Ivins on mad cow disease
• 1/7 U.S. CJD Cluster Warrants 'Thorough' CDC Investigation
• 1/7 U.S. pet food banned from Canada because of mad cow disease
• 1/7 Calls for comprehensive Mad Cow testing resisted by industry
• 1/6 Cow from Canada reassurance like saying hole 'in your side of the boat'
• 1/6 USDA 'having trouble serving two masters'
• 1/6 California Congressman Calls for Testing All Cows
  for Mad Cow Disease
• 1/6 Downer cow meat banned for schoolchildren but not others?
• 1/6 USDA Meat Recall 'Secrecy System' Called 'Absurd'
• 1/6 Industry Slowing Action on Mad Cow Disease
• 1/6 Japan Calls for Mad Cow Tests on All U.S. Beef Cows
• 1/6 Human death toll from mad cow disease up
• 1/6 Cow liquification vat 'tissue digesters' used to dispose of carcasses
• 1/6 USDA Protects 'Profits at the Expense of the American Public'
• 1/5 OCA Responds to USDA's "Too Little Too Late"
  Measures
• 1/5 Burger industry lobbyist smears public health activists
• 1/5 Dairy Industry Practices Place the Public at Risk
• 1/5 Japan expresses doubt at USDA safety measures to date
• 1/5 Mad Cow Disease a Byproduct of Beef Industry Profits
• 1/5 USDA Criticized for Not Testing All Animals for BSE with New Accurate Test
• 1/5 Administration should demand more rigorous testing
• 1/5 Market analysts advise investors to 'go vegan' with their portfolios
• 1/5 Industry Practices Blamed on 'Foolishness' and 'Greed'
• 1/4 FDA still hasn't stopped slaughterhouse waste in animal feed
• 1/4 Food safety expert: Don't buy hamburger from unknown source
• 1/4 Most pet owners don't realize pet food contains nerve tissue
• 1/4 Cannibalistic Feeding Practices Continue to 'Save Money'
• 1/4 Mad Cow disease has some people choosing vegetarian
• 1/4 Slaughterhouse waste in animal feed blamed on 'lust' for cheap protein
• 1/4 Another Washington State CJD victim dies 'most horrible' death
• 1/4 Scientists weigh risks of muscle meat
• 1/4 U.S. Mad Cow Disease 'All but Inevitable'
• 1/4 France tests more cows in a week than the U.S. has in a decade
• 1/4 Mad Cow Tests Cheap, Available and Unused in U.S.
• 1/4 Mad cow disease distracting from other meat borne pathogens
• 1/4 Mad Cow: Why Organic Beef is Safer than Conventional Beef in the U.S.
• 1/3 Consumer Groups Point to Holes in Cattle Feed Rules
• 1/3 Mad cow victim's father fears Americans will start dying
• 1/3 Universal testing of all cattle destined for food costs pennies
• 1/3 Universal mad cow testing deemed "necessary" for beef safety
• 1/3 System for Checking Cow Feed Flawed; Enforcement Lax
• 1/3 Should high-pressure meat recovery system be banned entirely?
• 1/3 Rules bar telling which stores, restaurants sold tainted meat
• 1/2 Oprah Winfrey Guest Vindicated
• USDA BSE Committee Appointee Testified for Industry Against Oprah
• 1/2 Cattle Brains Should Be Incinerated, Not Fed to Chickens, Pigs
• 1/2 Mad cow victim's mom made mistake of trusting government PR
• 1/2 USDA Measures Too Little Too Late
• 1/2 'Fast Food Nation' Author Takes on USDA
• 1/2 Mad Cow's Brain-Wasting Course Inspires Fear
• 1/1 Meat eaters having difficulty finding out source of beef
• 1/2 Ban on 'downers' could change way cattle are raised
• 1/2 New York Times profiles downer investigation group
• 1/1 Mad or not, beef doesn't grow on trees
• 1/1 Cattle lobby defeated downer cow legislation just months ago
• 1/1 Farm Animals Fed an 'Ocean of Blood' in the U.S.
• 1/12 UCSF Mad Cow test could test thousands a day, cost pennies
  2003
  
• 12/31 Some Nutritional Supplements Contain Risky Cow Parts
• 12/31 Mad Cow disease could 'set off a rolling economic disaster'
• 12/31 U.S. will keep with slower less reliable mad cow tests
• 12/31 Families consider turning vegetarian
• 12/31 U.S. Secretary of Agriculture challenged in Today Show interview
• 12/31 U.S. Secretary of Agriculture challenged in CNN interview
• 12/31 Beef tallow used in cosmetics has potential for prion contamination
• 12/31 USDA Measures 'Wholly Inadequate,' a 'Farce'
• 12/31 Threat of feed mix-ups continue
• 12/31 Mac Cow highlights other meat-borne pathogens
• 12/31 Advice for consumers
• 12/31 Cannibalistic Feeding Practices Conitnue in U.S.
• 12/31 USDA Conflict of Interest to Blame for Mad Cow Crisis
• 12/31 USDA Bans Downer Cows from Food Supply
• 12/31 Expert: U.S. Mad Cow testing method 'backwards'
• 12/31 Congressman: Beef industry 'shot themselves in the hoof'
• 12/30 Invasion of the Virtually Indestructible Protein
• 12/30 Mad Cow USA: The Nightmare Begins (Free Book)
• 12/30 Other Nations 'Way Ahead' of United States
• 12/30 Mad Cow Disease May Have Been Preventable
• 12/30 United States 'Sitting on a Time Bomb"
• 12/30 Nobel Laureate: Test Every Cow in the U.S.
• 12/29 Presidential Candidate Kucinich Calls for Stricter Mad Cow Rules
• 12/29 Mad Cow: Linked to Thousands of Human Deaths?
• 12/29 USDA Making 'Gargantuan Error'
• 12/29 USDA Urged to Deploy Rapid Mad Cow Test
• 12/29 Lax Rules and Testing Put Public, Cattle Industry at Risk
• 12/29 Feds Lag Badly on Mad Cow Disease Shields
• 12/29 Evidence Exists that Muscle Meat May Be Infectious
• 12/28 Thanks to NAFTA it doesn't matter if cow is Canadian
• 12/28 Los Angeles Times calls for Strengthened Safeguards
• 12/28 Harvard Expert Would Eat Cow Meat 'Only if Starving'
• 12/28 Current Safeguards Lacking, Critics Say
• 12/28 Canada disputes mad cow origin
• 12/28 Mad cow case clouds Bush's political outlook
• 12/27 CA Newspaper Lays Out Preventive Steps to Stop Mad Cow
• 12/27 Public likely ate suspect cow meat
• 12/28 Expert questions safety of steak
• 12/28 Mad Cow Precautions Might Be 'Too Little Too Late'
• 12/28 Why feed calves with cow blood? 'The reason is money'
• 12/28 Nobel Expert: 'Government Believes its Own Propaganda'
• 12/27 Public likely ate suspect cow meat
• 12/27 Organic meat may be safer
• 12/27 U.S. Mad Cow Link Questioned in Creutzfeldt-Jakob Cases
• 12/27 FDA Blasted Over Past Enforcement of Feed Ban
• 12/27 Enforcement of Feed 'Ban' Criticized Years Ago
• 12/27 Disease Could Have Spread to Thousands of Cattle
• 12/27 Risky Tissue Getting into Beef Supply, Studies Show
• 12/26 US mad cow link raised in human Creutzfeldt-Jakob cases
• 12/26 Pork and poultry producers worry that fears of disease will expand
• 12/26 Mad Cow 'Probably Tip of the Iceberg'
• 12/26 Britons Fear Over Imported U.S. Blood
• 12/26 Japan to demand U.S. test all cattle for mad cow disease
• 12/26 Makers of pet foods voice little worry
• 12/26 British government misled public for decade
• 12/26 GOP Congress Scuttled Mad Cow Protections
• 12/26 Government To Consider Greater Meat Testing
• 12/25 Nervous Tissue Found in a Third of Processed Meat Samples
• 12/25 Over a dozen nations ban American beef
• 12/25 Downer Cow Ban Defeat Blamed on Greed
• 12/25 Nobel Laureate Mad Cow Expert Prusiner Criticizes USDA
• 12/25 Downer Cows Should Be Euthanized Not Eaten
• 12/25 Critics Warn of 'Deadly Flaws' in Feed Standards
• 12/24 Disease expert 'shocked' that meat went to market
• 12/24 Oprah Winfrey Guest Speaks Out (Audio)
• 12/24 FDA may recall pet food due to mad cow
• 12/24 Beef Industry "Firewall" was 'wishful thinking'
• 12/24 Call to Stop Weaning Calves on Cow Blood
• 12/24 False Statements Made by USDA Officials
• 12/24 USDA reassurance called 'completely bogus'
• 12/24 Friend of the Earth Calls for FDA Investigation
• 12/24 Former Cattle Lobbyist Veneman 'extremely disingenuous'
• 12/24 USDA Misleading American Public about Beef Safety
• 12/24 Could this First Case Signal an Epidemic?
• 12/24 Mad Cow Disease Found in the US
• 12/24 First U.S. case 'tip of invisible iceberg'?
• 12/24 More countries ban American beef
• 12/24 Japan bans import of U.S. beef
• 12/24 Violations at Tacoma feed supply company found last year
• 12/24 Mad Cow Disease Detected in USA
• 12/24 Mad Cow USA: The Nightmare Is Here
• 12/24 McDonald's, Wendy's stocks fall in late trading
• 12/23 Mad Cow Meat May Have Been Eaten as Hamburger
• 12/23 Humans Eating Downer Cows
• 12/23 USDA Refused to Release Mad Cow Records
• 12/16 Court Reinstates Mad Cow Suit Against USDA
• 11/16 - Canada Mad Cow Crisis Has Cost $3 Billion
• 11/14 More Wisconsin deer farms quarantined
• 11/13 - Mad Cow Controversy in Canada Continues
• 11/13 - Game Farms Spread Controversy & Fear of Mad Deer Disease
• 11/12 Canada's Mad Cow Advice 'Hypocritical'
• 11/6 CJD Prions Found in Human Muscle Tissue
• 10/27 25 year old Green Beret dying of CJD in Texas
• 10/24 Chronic wasting disease could cost U.S. $ 100 billion a year
• 10/12 USDA Ponders More Token Measures to Head off Mad Cow Disease
• 10/10 300 US Companies Violating Mad Cow Rules
• 9/22 Ottawa has yet to act on the recommended mad cow reforms
• 9/22 Young American Dying of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
• 9/17 Premier: Rancher Should Have 'Shot, Shovelled, Shut Up'
• 9/11 Chronic wasting disease continues to spread in Wyoming
• 9/11 Chronic Wasting Disease May Lurk in Wisconsin's Soil
• 9/10 Is mad cow lurking in U.S. freezers?
• 9/7 Chronic Wasting Disease More Contagious Than Once Thought
• 8/30 NAFTA may interfere with Canada instituting mad cow safeguards
• 8/26 Commentary on a USDA BSE News Release
• 8/20 Canada Uses NAFTA as Excuse Not to Tighten Mad Cow Rules
• 8/17 It's Still a Cow Eat Cow World
• 8/16 Canada may significantly increase testing for mad cow disease
• 8/14 Chronic wasting disease in The Guardian
• 8/14 Canada considers increasing testing for mad cow disease
• 8/12 Consumer Groups: USDA Prioritizes Trade Over Public Health
• 8/11 Why America is at Risk for Mad Cow Disease
• 8/9 U.S. partly lifts ban on Canadian beef
• 8/7 Efforts to fight animal-borne disease are lagging, says report
• 7/29 More Canadian Cows May Be Infected
• 7/28 Rumors of mass Canadian cattle 'depopulation'
• 7/24 Human Mad Cow May Be Epidemic in US
• 7/21 FDA mulls blood risk of Canadian mad cow
• 7/19 Canada to ban cow brain and spinal cord from human food supply
• 7/18 Consumers Union Warns USDA to Step Up Testing for Mad Cow
• 7/18 Pet food containing bits of cats, dogs and sick cows
• 7/17 Alberta feedlot owners threatening to shoot cattle
• 7/17 Public Citizen Urges USDA to Maintain Canada Ban
• 7/11 Panel urges Canada to ban feeding slaughterhouse waste to livestock
• 7/9 Critics Urge USDA to Employ Mad Cow Rapid Tests
• 7/7 International panel makes mad cow recommendions to North America
• 7/7 Animal blood use in feed worried Canadian health department
• 7/4 Canadian Mad Cow May Have Come from the United States
• 7/3 U.S. meat industry split over inclusion of cow brains in human food
• 7/2 Second deer eradication zone opened in Wisconsin
• 7/2 Canadian report on mad cow case in Alberta
• 7/1: Industry Opposes Mad Cow Regulations

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• 6/30 Canada should 'end the practice of feeding animals' to livestock
• 6/27 Report calls for ban on brains and spine in human or animal food
• 6/27 Infected deer and elk carcasses may be dumped in landfill
• 6/15 Wisconsin's Eradication Plan May Be Doomed to Fail
• 6/12 Second sick deer in Alberta 'swept under carpet'
• 6/12 Countering Government Spin on Mad Cow Disease
• 6/10 Consumer Advocates Demand Tighter Mad Cow Regulations
• 6/10 Time for the USDA and the FDA to "Bite the Bullet"
• 6/9 Canadian meat inspectors lack mad cow training
• 6/9 Canada, U.S. Likely Have More Mad Cow Cases-Expert
• 6/8 Overview of chronic wasting disease
• 6/8 There 'Must' be More Cases of Mad Cow in North America
• 6/5 Downed Cows and Mad Cow Disease
• 6/5 Five unlikely infected bulls imported from BSE positive Canadian herd
• 6/5 Food and Ag Organization of the United Nations reiterates guidelines
• 6/4 USDA call for piecemeal end to mad cow border ban
• 6/3 Organic family farms benefit from mad cow disease in Canada
• 6/3 Could pigs be carrying prion disease and passing it on to humans?
• 6/3 Feed industry executive defends American safeguards
• 6/3 U.S. Efforts to Contain Mad Cow Disease Fall Short
• 6/2 'Radical vegans' exploit Canadian mad cow case
• 6/1 Scientist calls for complete animal to animal feed ban
• 6/1 Candian reaction more public relations than substance?
• 6/1 Canada to step up testing for mad cow disease
• 6/1 Chronic wasting disease 'might pose a similar risk' to humans as mad cow
• 5/31 U.S. ban on Canadian beef 'ludicrous' public relations 'charade'
• 5/31 North American officials should 'come clean' on mad cow disease
• 5/31 US: Mad cow in U.S. 'inevitable' if feeding practices not changed
• 5/31 Mad Cow Disease "Likely" To Be In United States As Well
• 5/30 Chronic wasting disease prions may lie and wait in soil
• 5/30 Canada may step up its livestock controls
• 5/30 Canadian mad cow may have been rendered into U.S. dog food
• 5/29 Canadian government's mad cow reassurances 'infuriating'
• 5/29 40-60% of Canadian livestock remains exported to the U.S.
• 5/29 U.S. Consumers Could Be Eating Infected Beef
• 5/29 Cost Cutting Blamed for Canadian Mad Cow Disease
• 5/29 U.S. mad cow firewall 'more like a white picket fence'
• 5/27 Canadian mad cow's birthplace may always be mystery
• 5/27 Canadians May Already be 'Dying from Eating Infected Beef'
• 5/27 US dog food may be contaminated by Canadian mad cow
• 5/27 'Putrefying animal guts' to foul Canada's waterways?
• 5/27 Wall Street Journal: Beef Industry's Dirty Secret
• 5/27: New York Times: U.S. Government Not Doing Enough to Protect Public
• 5/26 Canadian mad cow case unlikely to be 'isolated incident'
• 5/26 Mad Cow Discovery in North America Was Only a Matter of Time
• 5/26 Chronology of events in the Canadian mad cow investigation
• 5/25 Complacency is real killer in mad cow
• 5/25 Feeding pigs and chickens to cows worries leading prion expert
• 5/25 BSE-contaminated chicken feed may have been fed to Canadian cows
• 5/25 Second case of chronic wasting disease found in Utah
• 5/24 Canadian mad cow was rendered into animal feed and fed to chickens
• Canadian Prime Minister's steak eating decried as 'publicity stunt'
• 5/24 Concessions to elk farming industry may have led to testing delay
• 5/23 Australia reviews Canadian medicinals for beef products
• 5/23 Nobel Scientist Describes U.S. Mad Cow Disease Surveillance as 'Appalling'
• 5/23 Senator suggests Canadian testing delay 'incompetence' or 'cover-up'
• 5/23 Researchers criticize Canada's mad cow precautions
• 5/23 Nine herds now under quarantine in Canada
• 5/23 Canadian mad cow trace could take 'weeks'
• 5/22 Government cuts may have played role in Canada's mad cow case
• 5/22 Canadian cattle feed supply may have been infected in early Nineties
• 5/22 First mad cow case in Canada may be 'just the beginning'
• 5/22 Canadian mad cow case was a 'downer' cow
• 5/22 If Canadian cow was imported, it probably came from the U.S.
• 5/22 Ontario vows to challenge U.S. ban on Canadian beef
• 5/22 Canada's $5 billion beef industry threatened
• 5/22 Mad cow in Canada 'was a problem just waiting to happen'
• 5/22 No 'Guarantee' that American Beef is Safe
• 5/21 U.S. Agriculture Secretary intends 'to eat a steak tonight'
• 5/21 The U.S. imported $2.4 billion worth of beef from Canada last year
• 5/21 Three month testing delay in Canadian mad cow case
• 5/21 No cattle trace-back program in the U.S.
• 5/21 American Beef Supply at Risk by Michael Greger, M.D.
• 5/21 Scandal of beef waste in frozen chicken raising mad cow fears
• 5/21 List of countries banning beef from Canada continues to grow
• 5/21 Seven percent of beef consumed in the U.S. came from Canada
• 5/21 U.S. Imported a Billion Pounds of Beef from Canada Last Year
• 5/21 Canadian Mad Cow May Have Been Fed to Chickens and Pigs
• 5/20 Canadian grocers, restaurateurs react to first home grown mad cow case
• 5/20 Mad Cow Disease Hitting Canada 'Potentially Devastating' for Industry
• 5/20 Tyson, McDonald's stock fall as Canada confirms mad cow case
• 5/20 Last Year the U.S. Imported a Half Million Cattle from Canada
• 5/20 Canada Identifies Mad Cow Disease in Domestic Herd
• 5/15 Wisconsin seeks compromise on feeding, baiting ban
• 5/5 Iowa may reclassify deer as livestock to improve monitoring
• 5/3 State wraps up intensive testing of 41,000 wild whitetails in Wisconsin
• 4/27 Wisconsin expands deer kill zone
• 4/25 Study finds virtually all deer susceptible
• 4/23 Ban deer, elk farms, says Wisconsin resource chair
• 4/22 Whitetail does may roam more than expected, spreading disease
• 4/10 Credibility of Wisconsin DNR questioned
• 4/9 Three more Hunters Die of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
• 4/5 Fears Grow Over 'Mad Elk Disease'
• 4/4 Activist Fears the Worst of CWD is Yet to Come
• 4/3 Baiting proponents hide behind 'science'
• 4/1 Nasal Secretions 'Could be Infectious'
• 3/30 Families of U.S. CJD Victims Speak Out
• 3/19 Wisconsin game farm audit finds multiple violations
• 3/16 Chairman of Medicine Seeks Changes in Deer Meat Industry
• 3/11 Colorado incinerator opposition arises
• 3/2 All eyes on Wisconsin's efforts to control CWD
• 2/26 Chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin: A year in review
• 2/21 CDC report on 'wild game feast' cases
• 2/13 South Carolina Man May Have Died of 'Mad Cow Disease'
• 2/4 Test Results So Far Show CWD Not Detected in Virginia
• FDA soliciting comments on proposed mad cow rules
• 2/3 The battle to keep CWD out of W. Va. heating up
• 2/3 Mismanagement, greed caused game farm debacle
• 1/23 Canadian CWD conference wastes chance to take a stand
• 1/21 USDA Eliciting Comments on Downer Cow Risk Reduction
• 1/16 New York State bans deer baiting
• 1/15 Tests show Utah deer don't have brain illness -- yet
• 1/15 USDA Increases Testing for Mad Cow
• 1/15 Livestock Industry Opposed to Stricter Laws on Mad Cow Prevention
• 1/14 Chronic wasting disease hits food assistance programs
• 1/11 FDA Considering Tighter Restrictions On Animal Feed
• 1/11 Deer disease found in wild outside Wisconsin hot zone
• 1/7 Landowners fight Wisconsin deer-kill plan
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• 4/8 Mad Cow Disease May Have Spread into Sheep
• 3/8 Japan confirmed yet another case of mad cow disease
  
  
• 12/12 Resurgence of mad cow disease in Portugal
• 11/24 Sudden rise in BSE in Britain alarms scientists
• 11/13 Japan bans T-bone steak (and rest of cattle backbone)
• 10/30 UK government to start national tonsil archive to estimate prevalence
• 10/8 Japan finds possible new type of mad cow disease
• 9/14 Japan to ban T-bone steaks
• 8/12 Scientists investigating cow to sheep 'nightmare scenario'
• 7/10 British BSE testing move 'puts cash before safety'
• 5/22 Chicken products injected with cow and pig proteins
• 5/14 Deer stricken much younger than previously suspected
• 5/3 Irish mad cow inquiry urged
• 1/5 Outbreak of mad cow disease registered in Southern Russia
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• 5/21 Thousands of Young People in Britain May Die of Mad Cow Disease
• 5/8 New York Times editorial: " More Mad Cow Mischief"
• 4/6 Senators Seek Probe of Mysterious Cluster of CJD (Mad Cow-Like Disease)
• 4/1 Craig, 17, 'Killed by CJD from Babyfood'
• 3/21 Fifty thousand British blood donors banned from donating
• 3/17 'Mental patient' had CJD instead
• 1/17 Recipients of blood or blood products "at vCJD risk"

• 12/19 Worldwide Transfusion fear after UK mad cow death
• 12/18 Thousands at risk of vCJD from blood transfusion
• 8/20 Hospitals must step up precautions against 'mad cow' infections
• 8/7 Mad cow disease kills first human in Italy
• 7/20 Eye test exposes thousands to CJD risk
• 7/10 Mad cow disease kills first human in Czech Republic
• 6/27 Prospects for prion vaccine on horizon
• 6/16 Is The mad cow timebomb still ticking in the human population?
• 6/7 Mad cow disease in a pill?
• 6/5 Glandular supplements may pose greater risk than beef
• 6/2 Mad cow vaccine on the horizon
• 5/26 100,000 psi of pressure plus heat reduces infectivity in hot dogs
• 5/20 vCJD death estimate lowered
• 5/11 One in every 10 CJD victims was a donor
• 5/11 New York Times magazine profiles experimental vCJD treatment
• 4/28 Mad cow disease victim's family blames gelatin
• 4/25 Prion DNA helps confirm our cannibalistic past
• 4/6 Link between contaminated blood and human BSE?
• 3/1 vCJD death rates on the decline?
• 2/28 Prions found in nasal tissue: New mechanism of infection?
• 2/28 Latest mortality predictions may be overoptimistic
• 2/12 Infection threat from hidden strain of BSE
• 2/10 BSE is 'linked' to sporadic CJD deaths
• 1/31 Fish could suffer from a version of 'mad cow disease'
• 1/24 Is this the end of the CJD scare?
• 1/5 Human mad cow may be linked to infected cow tongue
• 1/1 vCJD complacency-cause for alarm?
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• 5/21 Thousands of Young People in Britain May Die of Mad Cow Disease
• 5/7 Omaha World Herald editorial: USDA's'Credibility Gap'
• until 5/7 Tell USDA to exclude cow rectum and anus from human food too
• 5/5 Will the Colorado's new CWD policy threaten human health?
• 5/3 U.S. Policy On Mad Cow In Question
• 3/26 Connecticut woman had signs of human mad cow
• 3/26 USA Today Says USDA Should Allow U.S. Ranchers to Test Beef
• 3/21 Nobel Laureate Expert Won't Eat American Beef
• 3/16 Consumer Groups: New Mad Cow Plan Lacking
• 3/4 Key Witness in USDA Mad Cow Fraud Investigation Silent
• 3/1 Now Is Not the Time To Drag Our Heels On Testing
• 2/26 Mad Cow Reminds Consumers About Unappetizing Ag Practices
• 2/26 Senior Scientist Accuses USDA of Undercutting Safety
• 2/25 Tainted-Meat Trail Kept from Public
• 2/25 What is the Dollar Value of Not Dying of Mad Cow Disease?
• 2/24 Senator Slams USDA, FDA on Mad Cow
• 2/16 Has the U.S. had Mad Cow Disease Since 1985?
• 2/16 Mad cow 'truths' relied on by USDA doubted
• 2/14 Expert Panel: More Mad Cow Testing to Protect U.S. Blood Supply
• 2/13 Experts Say USDA Officials Relied on Flawed Analysis
• 2/11 Who is the USDA Working For These Days?
• 2/9 USDA Lab Suspected of Covering Up Mad Cow Cases
• 2/9 'Mad' deer disease in U.S. may be a 'timebomb'
• 2/9 U.S. Testing Designed to 'Minimize the Chance of Finding Any'
• 2/8 Nobel Laureate: 'As Father' Wonders Why U.S. Unwilling to Test More
• 2/6 NY Times: Stop Feeding Slaughterhouse Waste to Cows
• February 2004 Bush Adminstration in Part to Blame for Mad Cow Debacle
• 2/3 Man Who Killed the Mad Cow Questions Safety of Meat Supply
• 1/29 Pigs and Chickens may be 'Silent Carriers' of Mad Cow Disease
• 1/29 Paperback 'Mad Cow USA' now available
• 1/28 50 Billion Lbs of Dead Animals Rendered; Some Still Fed to Cows
• 1/28 Nobel Laureate: USDA Testing Designed Not to Find Disease
• 1/27 Bush officials overstated findings of Harvard risk study
• 1/26 Beef Lobby Blocks Action on Mad Cow, Activists Say
• 1/21 Changes to Factory Farming System Mad Cow Silver Lining?
• 1/20 U.S. Beef Industry Treating Mad Cow Just as PR Problem
• 1/20 Infection 'likely' to Exist in the Muscle Meat
• 1/20 Canada and U.S. 'Burying Heads Over Mad Cow'
• 1/19 Political Scientist: 'We Should Test Every Cow'
• 1/18 Mad Cow and Sporadic CJD Link 'Striking and Worrisome'
• 1/16 Public Citizen Calls USDA on Negligent Mad Cow Safeguards
• 1/16 Meat Industry as Foxes Guarding Chicken Coop
• 1/16 Validity of U.S. Mad-Cow Tests Questioned
• 1/16 Americans May be Eating over 1000 Mad Cows Every Year
• 1/16 Could Chickens and Pigs be Silent Carriers For Mad Cow Disease?
• 1/14 USDA May Have Inflated Number of Cows Tested
• 1/14 Texas Food Safety Professor Criticizes USDA Loopholes
• 1/12 Whistleblowers Expose Lax U.S. Safeguards
• 1/12 Studies Raise Concerns About Human Threat of Mad Cow
• 1/12 Business Week Slams USDA on Mad Cow Measures
• 1/11 USDA Mad Cow Policy Swayed by Corporate Interests
• 1/11 Chicken Droppings 'Disgusting' Source of Cattle Protein
• 1/11 U.S. Calves Still Fed Cow Blood -- 'Stupid' Says Nobel Laureate
• 1/10 Former Mayor Ed Koch Decries Inadequate USDA Mad Cow Measures
• 1/9 Exclusive Interview with Mad Cow USA Author Sheldon Rampton
• 1/8 Weaning U.S. Calves with Cow Blood Milk Continues
• 1/8 Current Mad Cow Safeguards 'Anything but Science Based'
• 1/8 USDA Won't Test Because 'They don't want to find it'
• 1/7 U.S. CJD Cluster Warrants 'Thorough' CDC Investigation
• 1/6 USDA Meat Recall 'Secrecy System' Called 'Absurd'
• 1/6 Industry Slowing Action on Mad Cow Disease
• 1/6 USDA Protects 'Profits at the Expense of the American Public'
• 1/5 Dairy Industry Practices Place the Public at Risk
• 1/5 Mad Cow Disease a Byproduct of Beef Industry Profits
• 1/5 Industry Practices Blamed on 'Foolishness' and 'Greed'
• 1/4 Cannibalistic Feeding Practices Continue to 'Save Money'
• 1/4 U.S. Mad Cow Disease 'All but Inevitable'
• 1/4 Mad Cow Tests Cheap, Available and Unused in U.S.
• 1/3 Universal testing of all cattle destined for food costs pennies
• 1/3 System for Checking Cow Feed Flawed; Enforcement Lax
• 1/2 Oprah Winfrey Guest Vindicated
• 1/2 Cattle Brains Should Be Incinerated, Not Fed to Chickens, Pigs
• 1/2 USDA Measures Too Little Too Late
• 1/2 'Fast Food Nation' Author Takes on USDA
• 1/2 Mad Cow's Brain-Wasting Course Inspires Fear
  
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