• 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)

• 11/23 - New Mad Cow case likely, experts say
• 11/22 - U.S. Cattle Industry Awaits Mad Cow Test Results
• 11/22 - Consumers Union Slams FDA for Failure to Implement Mad Cow Disease Prevention
• 11/19 U.S. Reports Possible Second Case of Mad Cow
• 11/19 11/19 Eye Exam Procedure Could Spread CJD
• 11/18 - Cattle Prices Tumble; U.S. May Have 2nd Case of Mad Cow Disease
  
• 11/18 - Possible new case of Mad Cow Disease found in the United States
• 11/18 FDA Action Overdue on Mad Cow Risk
• 11/12 'Everyone at Risk From Mad Cow Disease'
• 11/12 Millions are at risk from different CJD strain
• 11/11 Mad Cow May Cause Multiple Human Diseases
• 10/28 - Cluster of Mad Cow-Like (CJD) Diseases in NY State Has People Worried
• 10/24 Recent New York Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease deaths
• 10/24 Japan to Accept Limited Imports of American Beef
• 10/21 When will Agribusiness Stop Feeding Animals Slaughterhouse Waste?
  
• 10/20 Will FDA & USDA Keep Mad Cow out of Cosmetics and Sausage?
• 10/18 CWD Fears Spread Far and Wide
  
• 9/30 Canadian cattle industry 'playing with fire'
• 9/27 Bush delays regulation; beef association endorses Bush
• 9/27 Alarming hazard for America's 12 million deer hunters
  
• 9/23 Reducing mad cow risks in drugs and vaccines
• 9/23 Japan refusing U.S. beef until stricter safety rules
• 9/1/ FDA feed proposal worries renderers, beef industry
• 8/29 Prions found in skeletal muscle and tongue
• 8/28 Human mad cow infection may be more widespread
• 8/21 'Our "don't test, don't know" policy must change'
• 8/21 Mysterious Mad Cow-Like Disease Surfaces in Washington State
• 8/20 Meat Industry Fights Ban on Feeding Brains to Livestock
• 8/20 Panel says mad cow likely in U.S. herd
  
• 8/12 Canadian beef producers sue the U.S. under NAFTA
• 8/12 USDA Mad Cow Surveillance 'in shambles'
• 8/11 ACTION ALERT: TELL THE FDA TO STOP RISKING ANIMAL HEALTH
• 8/10 Could meat give you Alzheimer's?
• 8/7 U.S. CJD surveillance still lags behind Europe
• 8/7 American Nightmare: No Such Thing as Isolated Cases of Mad Cow
• 8/6 Doctors Warn Millions More Could be at Risk of vCJD
• 8/5 - Don't Look Don't Find--Government Closes Top Mad Cow Laboratory
• 7/24 Report: USDA favors industry over public interest
• 7/22 New Study Reveals Gaping Holes in Mad Cow 'Firewall'
• 7/15 Inspector General Details Flaws in U.S. Mad Cow Testing
• 7/13 USDA's Own Audit Slams its Mad Cow Plan
• 7/13 USDA advised against the mad cow test it's now using in2002
• 7/13 'level of incompetence is far higher thanpeople could have imagined'
• 7/10 FDA still allows the feeding of cow blood and chickenexcrement to cows
• 7/9 FDA Betrays Public Trust
• 7/4 50,000 Severely Infected Animals Entered FrenchFood Supply
• 7/2 Feds Still Have Not Enacted Laws to Stop Spread of Mad Cow Disease
  
• 6/30 Up to 100 more mad cow cases expected
• 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
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• 11/1 - Mad Cow Disease Has Spread to Goats in France
• 9/27 - 6,000 Britons Told They May Have Mad Cow Disease
• 9/23 - UK Blood Donations May Be Contaminated with Mad Cow Disease
• 9/22 Thousands of Britons warned of mad cow infection risk
• 4/8 Mad Cow Disease May Have Spread into Sheep
• 3/8 Japan confirmed yet another case of mad cow disease
  
  2003 Articles
  
• 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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• 7/27 Mother of 13 year-old mad cow victim speaks out
• 7/23 Another transmission of vCJD via blood Transfusion
• 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"
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• 11/19 11/19 Eye Exam Procedure Could Spread CJD
• 11/18 FDA Action Overdue on Mad Cow Risk
• 11/12 'Everyone at Risk From Mad Cow Disease'
• 11/11 Mad Cow May Cause Multiple Human Diseases
• 8/28 Human mad cow infection may be more widespread
• 8/21 'Our "don't test, don't know" policy must change'
• 8/20 Meat Industry Fights Ban on Feeding Brains to Livestock
• 8/20 Panel says mad cow likely in U.S. herd
• 8/7 American Nightmare: No Such Thing as Isolated Cases of Mad Cow
• 8/6 Doctors Warn Millions More Could be at Risk of vCJD
• 7/22 New Study Reveals Gaping Holes in Mad Cow 'Firewall'
• 7/15 Inspector General Details Flaws in U.S. Mad Cow Testing
• 7/13 USDA's Own Audit Slams its Mad Cow Plan
• 7/13 'level of incompetence is far higher thanpeople could have imagined'
• 7/9 FDA Betrays Public Trust
• 7/4 50,000 Severely Infected Animals Entered FrenchFood Supply
• 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
• 6/10 USDA Dithering Prompts Mad Cow Cover-Up Fears
• 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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• 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
inquiries at (206)312-8640 or mhg1@cornell.edu.
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