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BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
Commentary: A Bum Steer On Mad Cow Disease Despite USDA reassurances, America's beef supply -- and its citizens -- are at risk.   |
Science News
October 4, 2003
Janet Raloff |
Calling All Cows A prototype package of biological and location sensors is part of a system that could compile a medical history and keep it with an animal throughout its life. |
CIO
March 1, 2004
Stacy Cowley |
Tracking Mad Cows with IT The mad cow incident has made developing the underlying technology for the US Animal Identification Plan (USAIP)--in development since October 2002--an urgent priority for the USDA. |
InternetNews
August 25, 2006
Erin Joyce |
Turning a Cow's Ear Into RFID Data IBM and TekVet take to the air with RFID tags that monitor cows' body temperatures to guard against disease. |
Science News
August 14, 2004
Janet Raloff |
What's the Beef? A study finds that at least half of the genetic inheritance of many of the animals identified at the slaughterhouse as Angus actually traces to some other breed. A new test will reveal what share of an animal's DNA traces to a particular breed. |
Science News
June 28, 2003
Ben Harder |
McDonald's Cutback in Antibiotics Use Could Reduce Drug-Resistant Bacteria The fast-food chain McDonald's announced on June 19 that it will stop its farms under contract from feeding chicken, cattle, and pigs certain antibiotics intended to accelerate the animals' growth. That step might slow or reverse the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can infect people. |
Science News
November 3, 2007
Janet Raloff |
Cleaning Up after Livestock Manure collection system sanitizes cattle wastes and makes hay while the sun shines. |
Fast Company
May 2006 |
Organic Expansion With total revenues of $15 billion in 2005, and 20% growth per year, organic food is a very fertile market. |
BusinessWeek
September 6, 2004
Carol Marie Cropper |
Does It Pay To Buy Organic? For some, the benefits of going organic are worth the higher price. Responding to the growing demand, mainstream grocers are stocking more organic produce, milk, baby food, and meats, while healthy-food chains have opened dozens of stores in the past five years. |
Food Processing
June 2012
Eric Mittenthal |
Inside the Latest U.S. Case of Mad Cow Disease The April discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy only proves safeguards are working. |
InternetNews
January 2, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
'Mad' Scramble for Electronic Livestock Tracking RFID vendors say they have the technology at hand to help U.S. officials track the origins of mad cow disease in livestock. But who's going to get it down to the farm? |
Food Engineering
March 6, 2006 |
Regulatory Watch Slaughterhouse operators can expect closer scrutiny from the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in the months ahead. |
BusinessWeek
February 9, 2004
Ed Levine |
Where's The Beef From? "Boutique" meats raised on family farms are gaining followers among safety-conscious diners. |
Science News
November 1, 2003
Janet Raloff |
Hormones in Your Milk Four dairies got their proverbial hands slapped by the U.S. FDA for marketing what it charges is "misbranded" milk, with labels containing false statements about the food's hormone status. |
Wired
October 16, 2007
Ben Paynter |
Cloned Beef (and Pork and Milk): It's What's for Dinner With cloned meat already at market, can -- and should -- the FDA keep farmers from using cloning technology in the dairy, beef, and pork industries? |
Scientific American
March 2007 |
The Beef with Cloned Meat For Americans, the idea of cloned meat elicits distaste even in many confirmed carnivores. Is that gut reaction justified? From a food-safety standpoint, probably not. |
Food Engineering
April 30, 2009 |
FDA strengthens safeguards against "mad cow disease" FDA issues final ruling barring specific cattle materials from all animal and pet feed |
IDB America
June 2005
Roger Hamilton |
On the Trail of the Peripatetic Pathogen Disease microbes make common cause between farmers and conservationists in far western Sao Paulo State, Brazil. |
Science News
January 13, 2007
Christen Brownlee |
Cloned Meat and Milk Are Safe, But They Won't Hit Stores Soon A Food and Drug Administration analysis concludes that food from cloned animals is safe, but the effort and expense involved in creating these animals means that products from them won't be in markets anytime soon. |
Inc.
January 2006
Nicole Gull |
The Dirt On Country Livin' How much does it cost to be a cowboy? |
BusinessWeek
March 26, 2007
Pallavi Gogoi |
Little Dogies, Big Controversy Beef from Scott Simplot's cloned cattle could soon be on the menu if the FDA say O.K. |
Inc.
August 2003
Jess McCuan |
Failure of Genius The founders of Future Beef were the smartest, most forward-thinking people in the beef business -- and if you didn't believe it, they'd tell you twice. So when the company went down, a lot of people wondered: How did these genius cattlemen blow it so badly? |
Food Processing
May 2005
Chuck Jolley |
Meat Safety Under the Microscope Thanks to continued research and technological advances, meat processors now have multiple ways to ensure the safety of meat products -- from irradiation to ultra-high pressure techniques to ozonated water. |
BusinessWeek
March 1, 2004
Arlene Weintraub & Ginsburg |
A High-Tech Race To Corral Mad Cow Radio chips and retinal scans vie for the job of tracking cattle from birth to butcher |
Science News
July 10, 2004
Janet Raloff |
Don't Expect Too Much of Soy Two large, new studies in European women now dampen hopes that substituting soy and other plant sources of estrogenic compounds for the now-shunned hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) will fill the bill. |
Wired
May 19, 2008
Joanna Pearlstein |
Surprise! Conventional Agriculture Can Be Easier on the Planet When it comes to greenhouse gases, organics can be part of the problem. |
Chemistry World
March 6, 2006
John Bonner |
Biopolymer for Increased Milk Production Injecting a complex polysaccharide into the udders of dairy cattle can reduce the incidence of mastitis and help prevent the emergence of antibiotic resistance, report US agricultural scientists. |
IDB America
July 2005
Roger Hamilton |
Environmentally friendly cattle? A new system for raising cattle is now being introduced in Guatemala as a way for farmers to earn more from their land and at the same time protect the environment. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
A Perfect Storm for Milk A perfect storm has gathered over the dairy industry, and milk prices are expected to rise at least $0.50 per gallon. The price of milk hit a 25-year low only last year and may hit a record high later this year. |
BusinessWeek
March 1, 2004
Janet Ginsburg |
Now Is Not The Time To Drag Our Heels On Testing Two months after the Agriculture Dept. announced the first case of mad cow in the U.S., dozens of countries, including Mexico and Japan, continue to ban American meat. The USDA is dragging its heels on approving rapid tests. |
Reason
May 2008
Ronald Bailey |
Papers Please! The U.S. Department of Agriculture is rolling out its National Animal Identification System to tag and track every farm animal in America. |
Chemistry World
July 30, 2013 |
Animal pharm Making drugs to treat animals is a potentially lucrative market -- but the path to success is a difficult one, as Clare Sansom discovers |
Food Engineering
May 1, 2005 |
Ag secretary pledges increased beef-import support The US Secretary of Agriculture told food processors recently that Canadian ranchers are complying with BSE-related feed bans, and his office will appeal a temporary restraining order blocking the resumption of imports of Canadian cattle younger than 30 months. |
Outside
June 2010
Steven Rinella |
Grand Theft Cattle In the range wars of the 21st century, the cattle rustler runs Ponzi schemes and the lawman drives an SUV. |
The Motley Fool
September 8, 2010
Jared Cummans |
An ETF to "Beef Up" Your Portfolio Time to moooove your assets? Keep ETF COW in focus as cattle futures spike. |
Chemistry World
October 8, 2007
John Bonner |
Brain Mood Hormone Linked to Milk Production Milk production in mammalian breast tissue is regulated by serotonin - the same hormone that acts in the brain to control a person's mood, according to researchers. |
Job Journal
June 10, 2007
Julia Hollister |
From Science to Sales, California Crops Create Abundance of Careers Advances in science, technology and marketing create new fields on and off the farm. |
BusinessWeek
May 8, 2006
John Carey |
We Are What We (Blindly) Eat "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals" is a far-reaching and disturbing exploration of America's food production and consumption. |
The Motley Fool
January 3, 2007
Stephen Albainy-Jenei |
Attack of the Pod Cows The FDA has endorsed food from cloned animals. While the agency's conclusions don't exactly herald the invasion of the farm-animal snatchers, they do provide an open opportunity for companies that are well-positioned in the industry. |
Science News
November 9, 2002
Janet Raloff |
Young Women Don't Bone Up on Soy If soy's good for older women, it should similarly benefit women in their 20s -- fortifying their bodies' structural scaffolding during peak bone-building years. But recent research finds zero benefit for younger women. |
Scientific American
January 2006 |
Saving Animals and People Use of animals in testing and in biomedical research continues to be necessary and is ethically preferable to experimenting on humans or forgoing cures that could save human lives, but the development and acceptance of animal substitutes deserve enthusiastic support. |
