That's why the identities of restaurants and grocery stores in California who served beef from a mad cow in 2003 were kept secret as well as the identities of Texas and Alabama ranches who produced mad cows soon after. Lucky for big meat, state and federal lawmakers have long anticipated the need to protect businesses--if not people--when outbreaks of potentially lethal pathogens occur in meat and enacted shield laws. Profit watching causes other health risks in the slaughterhouse too...

beef imports on Friday after inspectors reportedly found a recent shipment contained bone that is banned due to concerns over mad cow disease. meat from cattle less than 30 months old, partially lifting an almost three-year ban imposed on American beef after the disease was discovered in the U. Scientists believe mad cow disease spreads when farmers feed cattle recycled meat and bones from infected animals. Rib meat is used to make galbi, a popular dish of marinated meat barbecued at...

Today's higher prices for feed corn, fueled by increased ethanol production, are causing livestock producers to supplant more of their animals' diets with fat. Christensen said he's already noticed traditional consumers of fat, from chemical companies to livestock feeders, tightening the reins on an already slim commodity. Griffin Industries, a rendering facility near Cincinnati, built its own biodiesel plant in 1997 as a way to create a new market for its fats and greases, said Rick...

consumers to a fatal disease linked to eating meat contaminated with mad cow disease, increase the risk that U. Eating meat products contaminated with mad cow disease, known scientifically as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, has been linked to more than 150 human deaths, mostly in Britain, from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Agriculture Department cannot comment on a pending lawsuit, but the rules promote fair trade consistent with current scientific knowledge, USDA...

It should be noted that these figures represent not all USDA rural development programs, but 18 rural economic and community development grant programs that USDA has categorized together. Department of Agriculture spent more than five times as much in farm program payments to Kansas' 20 biggest farm subsidy recipients as it spent supporting rural development in the 20 Kansas counties suffering the greatest population loss. But they constitute a region in economic and demographic distress,...