The government's decision to resume U.S. beef imports next month is rekindling calls for a boycott of U.S. beef because of a potential risk of mad cow disease.
Leading the calls for the government to withdraw its decision are the Solidarity for Anti-Mad Cow Disease group, the National Network for School Lunch and the Association of Lawyers for a Democratic Society.
In their joint statement, the nongovernmental organizations urged the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to withdraw its policy to import U.S. beef and said the U.S. government should stop its irrational pressure
Read moreScientists had thought only 40 percent of the population was at risk for vCJD, the human equivalent of the mad cow infection. They now believe tens of thousands more people could be at risk if they consumed diseased meat in the 1980s and 1990s, the Scotsman reported.
A dormant infection was recently found in someone with the MV genotype that accounts for half the population. Now two Read more
Mad cow disease 'a threat to tens of millions in Britain' LYNDSAY MOSS HEALTH CORRESPONDENT
New fears are raised over CJD Possibility exists that disease may lie dormant for decades New measures to be taken over blood donations
Key quote "One possibility is that the incubation periods are very, very long and so they may occur at a later date. The worst-case scenario is that these individuals could infect other people through blood donation or surgery and we could get Read more
First, this positive result is from the second test conducted on this particular cow in Alabama. The first test also Read more
In Britain, paranoia is rife about human-to-human vCJD transmission via blood. This disease is the newest type of Read more
The company booked a cool $113 million profit from HFCS over the quarter, more than three times more than it netted in the same period a year before ($33 million). This, despite a slowing domestic market for sweet soft drinks, as consumers increasingly switch to juice and bottled water. The company's official explanation -- "increased sweetener and starch selling prices" -- Read more
A ranching and meat-processing company in Kansas wants to test all its cattle for mad cow disease at its own expense. The Bush administration won't let the firm do it. Oh, but that's not all. If the company tries to buy the $20 testing kits, the feds will treat such a transaction as an illegal purchase of a controlled substance.
We wish we were making this up, but we're not. Talk about mad cow, this is crazy people. It's also an intrusive government abusing an old law.
In 1913, when cholera was decimating hog herds, scam artists were selling fake serums to farmers. Congress
Read moreThe United States, though, is still trying to persuade Japan to lift a mad-cow-related ban on imports of American beef. A meeting between U. S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns and Japanese Agriculture Minister Shoichi Nakagawa is scheduled for next week. Japan, the top foreign buyer of U. S Read more
SEOUL (Yonhap) - The United States has failed to provide the date of birth of a cow linked to a third case of mad cow disease on its shores, a matter that could jeopardize Seoul's resumption of American beef imports, the government said Wednesday.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said Washington forwarded information on the cow Friday but gave no conclusive evidence to indicate its age.
"The data contained expert testimonies by veterinarians, but we cannot determine for certain if the cow was born before April 1998,'' said Park Hyun-chul, head of the ministry's
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