Mad Cow Disease News

Controversy over the government s decision to relax restrictions on US beef imports is heating up.

Taiwan's Consumers' Foundation and a few other private non-profit organizations, including the Housewives' Association, are planning to propose a referendum on the importation of American beef and beef products that may by a one-in-a-billion chance cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease.

The pork industry desperately wants you to believe "the Big Lie" about swine flu: That it can't infect pigs, and therefore it's perfectly safe to buy and eat lots and lots of pork products.

PLURKING: Plurk users accused the health agency of a cover-up, saying it was deleting their suggestions.

A Taiwanese consumer group said on Sunday it would push for a referendum in an effort to block the import of bone-in U.S. beef products over concerns about bovine spongiform encephalopathy, mirroring protests in South Korea last year when officials there widened beef trade parameters.

The Legislative Yuan will be able to review the protocol signed by Taiwan and the U.S. allowing the import of bone-in beef, lawmakers said yesterday.

Detection of a case atypical scrapie in a sheep's brain from New Zealand has mobilised the government to deny there is risk to the country's scrapie-free status or to trade.

THE government was last night accused of a "worrying retreat" on a commitment to scientists after its top drugs adviser was forced to resign.

A fight is brewing over the practice of feeding chicken feces and other poultry farm waste to cattle.

Australian officials have announced that they will begin allowing imports from countries which have experienced cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy on March 1, 2010.

Taipei, Oct. 27 The American Institute in Taiwan touted the safety of U.S. beef Tuesday after a recent Taiwan-U.S. agreement to open the Taiwan market wider to U.S. beef imports sparked a bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease scare among local consumers.

A mother who lost her son to the human strain of mad cow disease is demanding all donated blood is screened for the disease.

UDDER NONSENSE: William Stanton said that scooters were much more dangerous than US beef, so banning them would make more sense than restricting imports By Flora Wang, Ko Shu-ling and Shih Hsiu-chuan STAFF REPORTERS Wednesday, Oct 28, 2009, Page 1 Demonstrators display placards and banners protesting against plans to relax restrictions on US beef ...

Manila may soon lift an 8-year old ban on ruminant meat and bone meal from the United States, a senior official of the Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday.

Riding a demographic wave that has increased demand for their product and kept prices high, Canadian sheep producers have set out on a campaign to woo farmers into their fold.

Department of Health Minister Yaung Chih-liang, left, reports at the Legislative Yuan about the beef negotiation issue while DPP legislators display slogans asking President Ma Ying-jeou to step down for disgracing the nation in the negotiation.

I would like to address this column to Mr. Stephens, the author of Thursday's article, "Eat less meat to help save the world, environment." I am appalled that such an article was published in the newspaper of one of the top agricultural schools in the nation -- an article that slams the beef industry and the agricultural industry with misunderstood ...

Working to open overseas markets to Nebraska beef producers, Nebraskaa s Senator Ben Nelson applauded yesterdaya s signing of a new US-Taiwan Beef Protocol that permits sale of US bone-in beef under 30 months old to Taiwan for the first time since 2003.

Taiwan said Friday that it will allow imports of US beef on the bone in a controversial move criticised by some lawmakers and activists for ignoring mad cow disease concerns.

The Italian Health Ministry reported Friday a "likely" case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human form of mad cow disease.