• 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
• previous articles

• 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?
• previous articles
  

• 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
  
  NEWS: MAD COW HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES 2003
  
• 12/30 Other Nations 'Way Ahead' of United States
• 12/30 United States 'Sitting on a Time Bomb"
• 12/30 Nobel Laureate: Test Every Cow in the U.S.
• 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 Evidence Exists that Muscle Meat May Be Infectious
• 12/29 Feds Lag Badly on Mad Cow Disease Shields
• 12/29 Lax Rules and Testing Put Public, Cattle Industry at Risk
• 12/28 Los Angeles Times calls for Strengthened Safeguards
• 12/28 Harvard Expert Would Eat Cow Meat 'Only if Starving'
• 12/28 Mad Cow Precautions Might Be 'Too Little Too Late'
• 12/28 Current Safeguards Lacking, Critics Say
• 12/27 Public likely ate suspect cow meat
• 12/27 Enforcement of Feed 'Ban' Criticized Years Ago
• 12/27 FDA Blasted Over Past Enforcement of Feed Ban
• 12/27 U.S. Mad Cow Link Questioned in Creutzfeldt-Jakob Cases
• 12/27 Risky Tissue Getting into Beef Supply, Studies Show
• 12/27 Disease Could Have Spread to Thousands of Cattle
• 12/26 Britons Fear Over Imported U.S. Blood
• 12/26 Mad Cow 'Probably Tip of the Iceberg'
• 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 Downer Cow Ban Defeat Blamed on Greed
• 12/25 Critics Warn of 'Deadly Flaws' in Feed Standards
• 12/25 Downer Cows Should Be Euthanized Not Eaten
• 12/25 Nobel Laureate Mad Cow Expert Prusiner Criticizes USDA
• 12/24 Oprah Winfrey Guest Speaks Out (Audio)
• 12/24 Call to Stop Weaning Calves on Cow Blood
• 12/24 Beef Industry "Firewall" was 'wishful thinking'
• 12/24 False Statements Made by USDA Officials
• 12/24 Friend of the Earth Calls for FDA Investigation
• 12/24 USDA Misleading American Public about Beef Safety
• 12/24 Could this First Case Signal an Epidemic?
• 12/24 'Avoid Ground Beef...' Counsels Food Safety Expert
• 12/24 Mad Cow USA: The Nightmare Is Here
• 12/23 USDA Refused to Release Mad Cow Records
• 12/23 Humans Eating Downer Cows
• 11/12 Canada's Mad Cow Advice 'Hypocritical'
• 11/6 CJD Prions Found in Human Muscle Tissue
• 9/22 Young American Dying of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
• 9/17 Premier: Rancher Should Have 'Shot, Shovelled, Shut Up'
• 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
• 8/26 Commentary on a USDA BSE News Release
• 8/17 It's Still a Cow Eat Cow World
• 8/12 Scientists investigating cow to sheep 'nightmare scenario'
• 8/12 Consumer Groups: USDA Prioritizes Trade Over Public Health
• 7/29 More Canadian Cows May Be Infected
• 7/17 Public Citizen Urges USDA to Maintain Canada Ban
• 7/9 Critics Urge USDA to Employ Mad Cow Rapid Tests
• 7/4 Canadian Mad Cow May Have Come from the United States
• 7/1: Industry Opposes Mad Cow Regulations
• 6/15 Wisconsin's Eradication Plan May Be Doomed to Fail
• 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 Canada, U.S. Likely Have More Mad Cow Cases-Expert
• 6/8 There 'Must' be More Cases of Mad Cow in North America
• 6/5 Downed Cows and Mad Cow Disease
• 6/3 U.S. Efforts to Contain Mad Cow Disease Fall Short
• 6/1 Scientist calls for complete animal to animal feed ban
• 5/31 U.S. ban on Canadian beef 'ludicrous' public relations 'charade'
• 5/31 Mad Cow Disease "Likely" To Be In United States As Well
• 5/29 Canadian government's mad cow reassurances 'infuriating'
• 5/29 Cost Cutting Blamed for Canadian Mad Cow Disease
• 5/29 U.S. mad cow firewall 'more like a white picket fence'
• 5/29 U.S. Consumers Could Be Eating Infected Beef
• 5/27 Canadians May Already be 'Dying from Eating Infected Beef'
• 5/27: New York Times: U.S. Government Not Doing Enough to Protect Public
• 5/27 Wall Street Journal: Beef Industry's Dirty Secret
• 5/25 Complacency is real killer in mad cow
• 5/26 Mad Cow Discovery in North America Was Only a Matter of Time
• 5/23 Nobel Scientist Describes U.S. Mad Cow Disease Surveillance as 'Appalling'
• 5/22 No 'Guarantee' that American Beef is Safe
• 5/22 Mad cow in Canada 'was a problem just waiting to happen
• 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 Mad Cow Disease Hitting Canada 'Potentially Devastating' for Industry
• 5/20 Last Year the U.S. Imported a Half Million Cattle from Canada
• 4/22 Whitetail does may roam more than expected, spreading disease
• 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
• 4/1 Nasal Secretions 'Could be Infectious'
• 3/30 Families of U.S. CJD Victims Speak Out
• 2/13 South Carolina Man May Have Died of 'Mad Cow Disease'
• 2/10 BSE is 'linked' to sporadic CJD deaths
• 1/21 USDA Eliciting Comments on Downer Cow Risk Reduction
• 1/11 FDA Considering Tighter Restrictions On Animal Feed
  

• Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE): A family of progressive, incurable, fatal diseases caused by prions. Characterized by dementia, and holes in the brain on autopsy. Can be transmitted between mammals when one mammal eats parts of the nervous system (e.g., brain, spinal cord) of another mammal.
• Prion: Prion: (pronounced pree-on) Novel infectious agent common to these diseases. Not a virus or bacterium, but an infectious protein which can set off a chain reaction which destroys nerve cells. They cannot be inactivated by most sterilization methods.
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE): The technical name for Mad Cow Disease - the TSE found in cattle. The form of BSE found in European cattle is probably not the same as that in US cattle.
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD): A human TSE. The classic form of CJD appears to arise spontaneously, but the so-called "new variant" of CJD (nvCJD) is now known to be the human equivalent of mad cow disease thought to be contracted by eating contaminated beef.
• Kuru: Another human TSE, found in Pacific Islanders who ate human brains.
• Scrapie: The TSE found in sheep. The probable source of all other animal TSEs.
• Downer cow: US industry term for an animal who falls down and dies without an apparent disease. Some people speculate that some US downer cows have a form of BSE with different symptoms from the British form of BSE.
  

• http://davelouthan.org/ - I'm the guy who killed that mad cow
• Mad Deer site - http://www.maddeer.org/
• Yahoo's Mad Cow news page
• Mad Cow Disease discussion with Terry Singeltary
• Official Mad Cow Disease Archive Worldwide news articles sorted by topic but not labeled by date or country. 8000+ articles March 2001 and earlier on mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, prions, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, BSE, CJD, and TSE.
• Feb/01- For an overview, see The Why Files
• 1998 article from The Atlantic Monthly
• CJD Watch (International) - Tracking Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease victims.
• Read about and buy "Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat," by Howard Lyman.
• Book: "Mad Cow USA" - About the book / Reviews / order it - Available Free Online

Michael Greger, MD, is the Mad Cow Coordinator for the Organic
Consumers Association and the Chief BSE Investigator for www.nodowners.org ( Farm Sanctuary). Dr. Greger has
been speaking publicly about mad cow disease since 1993. He has
debated the National Cattlemen's Beef Association before the FDA and
was invited as an expert witness at the Oprah Winfrey infamous "meat
defamation" trial. He has contributed to many books and articles on
the subject and continues to lecture extensively. Dr. Greger is a
graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the
Tufts University School of Medicine. He can be reached for media
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