Burger King's greasy campaign

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/12/09/burger_kings_greasy_campaign/

What my 3,000-pound steer has taught me about faith

http://www.slate.com/id/2205131/

Inside McDonalds Meat Processing Plant

Palin Appoints High School Friend Head Of Alaskan Agriculture Because She Loves Cows



http://foolocracy.com/2008/09/palin-appoints-high-school-friend-head-of-alaskan-agriculture-because-she-loves-cows/

Seoul protest over US mad cow threatens to topple government

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/10/asia/korea.php

From the article:

"Protesters have accused Lee of being too eager to please the United States, even at the expense of the health of his own people.

Such criticism gained currency when it was revealed that South Korea had agreed to a less-restrictive beef importation deal than Taiwan and Japan did.

Lee offered no immediate comment on whether he would accept the offers of resignation by Prime Minister Han Seung Soo and other cabinet members. But their offers, coupled with an earlier offer by his top aides to resign, opened the way for Lee to overhaul his government for a new beginning as he tries to arrest his plummeting approval ratings.

On Monday, Lee sent a delegation to Washington to help defuse the crisis and amend the April deal so that the United States would not export beef from cattle older than 30 months, similar to the deals Japan and Taiwan reached with the United States. Younger cattle are believed to be less susceptible to mad cow disease."

EU food chief: Lift BSE ban to cut grain prices

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4054169.ece

From article:

"The EU ban on the use of animal remains to feed pigs and chickens should be lifted so that grain can be diverted to millions of starving people, one of Europe’s top food safety advisers has told The Times.

Patrick Wall, chairman of the European Food Safety Authority, questioned whether it was “morally or ethically correct” to feed grain to animals in the midst of a global food crisis.

He said that there was no scientific reason to maintain the ban.

More than 40 heads of state meet at an emergency UN food summit today to draw up an action plan over soaring food prices, which have led to riots in Haiti, Egypt, Mexico, Tanzania and Morocco. Prices for staples such as rice, soya and wheat have risen 83 per cent in three years, making them unaffordable in the poorest countries."

9 Cases Of CJD Brain-Wasting Disease In Idaho

http://www.rense.com/general68/ida.htm

Three Cows From Mad-Cow

From the Jeff Rense program:

http://www.rense.com/general48/traced.htm

White House fights broader mad-cow testing

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5767438.html

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration today urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority.

The government seeks to reverse a lower court ruling that allowed Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef to conduct more comprehensive testing to satisfy demand from overseas customers in Japan and elsewhere.

Less than 1 percent of slaughtered cows are currently tested for the disease under Agriculture Department guidelines. The agency argues that more widespread testing does not guarantee food safety and could result in a false positive that scares consumers.

"They want to create false assurances," Justice Department attorney Eric Flesig-Greene told a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

But Creekstone attorney Russell Frye contended the Agriculture Department's regulations covering the treatment of domestic animals contain no prohibition against an individual company testing for mad cow disease, since the test is conducted only after a cow is slaughtered. He said the agency has no authority to prevent companies from using the test to reassure customers.

"This is the government telling the consumers, 'You're not entitled to this information,'" Frye said.

Chief Judge David B. Sentelle seemed to agree with Creekstone's contention that the additional testing would not interfere with agency regulations governing the treatment of animals.

"All they want to do is create information," Sentelle said, noting that it's up to consumers to decide how to interpret the information.

Larger meatpackers have opposed Creekstone's push to allow wider testing out of fear that consumer pressure would force them to begin testing all animals too. Increased testing would raise the price of meat by a few cents per pound.

Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. Three cases of mad cow disease have been discovered in the U.S. since 2003. One of those was in Texas, the nation's leading cattle producer.

The district court's ruling last year in favor of Creekstone was supposed to take effect June 1, 2007, but the Agriculture Department's appeal has delayed the testing so far.

The Criminalization of Raw Milk: A Mennonite Farmer is Hauled Away

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_11896.cfm

Dangerous animal virus on US mainland?

http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=8152038&nav=menu51_2

Top 10 Reasons Not to Eat Cows

http://www.goveg.com/f-top10cows.asp

Two die in Spain from human variant of mad cow disease

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-04-07-spain-mad-cow-disease_N.htm

Cattle mutilations Part 1-2

Calif. meat worker: I was following orders

ADELANTO, Calif. (AP) — A former slaughterhouse worker who was videotaped abusing ailing cattle in a case that led to the largest beef recall in U.S. history said in a jailhouse interview that he was only following orders.

Luis Sanchez said he felt bad when he saw how the cows were treated at Chino-based Westland/Hallmark Meat Co., and insisted his boss taught him to use a forklift to move so-called downer cows along the slaughter line.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2008-03-08-slaughterhouse-abuse_N.htm

You can learn more by watching than by words

http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/03/01/opinion/letters/131915_3.txt

More Examples Of How Unsafe The Meat Supply Is

http://www.rense.com/general80/meats.htm

More Examples Of How Unsafe The Meat Supply Is

http://www.rense.com/general80/meats.htm

Processing plant debacle unfairly tars reputation of Idaho cattlemen

http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/02/21/opinion/reader_comments/131289.txt