Mad Cow Disease News

Protesters wearing masks perform a skit with a photo of Health Minister Yeh Ching-chuan and a picture of a cow during the demonstration yesterday.

If mad cow disease wasn't the death knell of the cattle industry, the latest drought might finish it off, some farmers say.

President Ma Ying-jeou said in Panama Thursday that he looks forward to an early agreement with the United States on beef imports to Taiwan.

A provincial Ranching Task Force held its first meeting Wednesday to find ways to help B.C.a s troubled cattle industry.

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The Center for Food Safety of Hong Kong Tuesday announced that the relaxation of the import control on beef from Canada would be advanced to the second phase under an agreement with the Canadian authorities with immediate effect.

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There is no timetable for fully opening Taiwan's market to U.S. beef, Department of Health Minister Yeh Ching-chuan said yesterday, although he noted that the government is considering how best to open the doors.

Drought could force farmers in top beef-cattle producing province Alberta to thin their herds further in a desperate attempt to stay in business, the latest blow to a reeling industry.

Researchers are suggesting new reasons that support the importance of accurate and comprehensible labeling when it comes to seafood.

A gentle rain falls on Dave Harrington's farm. But the Nebraska Pork Producers vice president finds his industry weathering a major storm, all because of an outbreak with the scare-inducing name "Swine Flu" Harrington said, "It sent a message to the population throughout the world.

TAIPEI a ' Members of the public should phone their protest to the Department of Health if the government went ahead with an expected full opening of Taiwana TMs market to U.S. beef, the opposition Democratic Progressive Party said Thursday.

" There is no timetable for full opening of beef from the United States, said Health Minister Yeh Chin-chuan set a restriction on import of U.S. beef on January 25, 2006, allowing merely boneless meat under 30 months old without viscera and specified risk materials.

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Animal ID money may be cut in ag bill Funding for the national animal identification system would be zeroed out under the fiscal year 2010 agriculture appropriations bill approved June 11 by the House Ag-riculture Appropriations Subcommittee.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. a 'University of Louisville neurologist Robert P. Friedland, M.D., questions the safety of eating farmed fish in todaya TMs Journal of Alzheimera TMs Disease, adding a new worry to concerns about the nationa TMs food supply.

Nicaragua has signed an agreement that will allow live U.S. cattle and beef imports from animals of any age into the country, USDA said last week.

June 12, 2009 Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have gained a major insight into how the rogue protein responsible for mad cow disease and related neurological illnesses destroys healthy brain tissue.

Mad cow disease and similar conditions may start with one protein that somehow goes astray and deprives the healthy brain cells of another essential protein, researchers say.

Trouble in the beef industry hit one P.E.I. farmer hard Wednesday when Farm Credit Canada seized his entire herd.