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Need another reason to feel guilty about feeding your children that Happy Meal — aside from the fat, the calories and that voice in your head asking why you can't be bothered to actually cook a well-balanced meal now and then? Rajendra Pachauri would like to offer you one. The head of the U.N.'s Nobel Prize–winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Pachauri on Monday urged people around the world to cut back on meat in order to combat climate change. "Give up meat for one day [per week] at least initially, and decrease it from there," Pachauri told Britain's Observer...

The government of Mexico has voluntarily suspended shipments of meat and processed poultry to the United States after U.S. officials raised concerns about the quality of Mexican food processing and inspections, an Agriculture Department official said Thursday. The department's Food Safety and Inspection Service identified systemic problems with sanitation controls and recordkeeping during an annual audit that took place in Mexico between June 24 and July 31. The voluntary suspension began Aug. 29, said Amanda Eamich, a spokeswoman for the service. About 2 percent of beef and poultry in the U.S. comes from Mexican producers. "Safety concerns in multiple establishments...

ELKVIEW, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Kanawha County Sheriff's Deputies are asking for the public's help to identify a man they say stole nearly $2,000 in high-end beef. The crime happened at the Elkview Kroger on Sunday, July 27, between 10:15 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. Lieutenant Sean Crosier says the suspect loaded his shopping cart with expensive steaks and entire loins, then walked out through the loading dock at the back of the store. In all, $1,930 worth of meat was stolen, according to Crosier. Anyone with information about the suspect in the picture is asked to call the Kanawha County Sheriff's...

More than 100 injured in South Korea beef protests Posted: 29 June 2008 1306 hrs SEOUL: South Korean police clashed violently with protesters opposing US beef imports here on Sunday, leaving more than 100 people injured, officials and witnesses said. Police fired water cannon and wielded batons to try to control protesters, who hit back with poles and steel pipes, smashing police bus windows and spraying street fire hoses. With rocks also hurled through the air, many of the injured suffered head wounds and were taken to hospitals in ambulances, according to witnesses on the scene

The number of candlelight protesters at Seoul Plaza has conspicuously decreased, from a peak of tens of thousands down to several hundred, and it is not due to the start of the rainy season. Those young students, housewives and office workers who had gathered there to vent their anxiety over U.S. beef imports left when the protest became politicized by others who had different agenda. After the massive demonstrations on June 10, the candlelight vigils changed shape. Men and women from all kinds of radical civic groups and labor unions also lit up candles and shouted all sorts of slogans,...

Prime Minister Han Seung-soo and the entire Cabinet offered to resign yesterday amid a deepening political crisis surrounding U.S. beef imports. Han delivered the intention for him and 15 other ministers to step down during a meeting with President Lee Myung-bak, Cheong Wa Dae said. They have served only 107 days. The request follows the resignation by all of Lee's eight senior secretaries including Chief of Staff Yu Woo-ik on Friday. Lee is likely to announce replacements this week, according to Cheong Wa Dae officials. It may be delayed to early next week. It is unclear how many of them...

It’s not enough for the media to try to brainwash the public the Earth is in peril due to global warming. Now they’re telling you what to eat. This is something you might expect to hear at a PETA rally, but instead it was ABC’s May 13 “World News with Charles Gibson” telling you to curb your beef consumption to lower greenhouse gas emissions. “You are staring into the face of one thing scientists say you can do to fight climate change,” ABC correspondent Dan Harris said as the face of a cow filled the screen. “Leave this cow alone...

British Airways takes beef off the menu to avoid offending Hindus Last updated at 16:37pm on 09.05.08For decades the national dish has been a staple meal on the national carrier. But now British Airways has taken beef off the menu for economy passengers amid concerns about its "religious restrictions". The airline has instead switched to a fish pie or chicken dish option for the so-called "cattle class" passengers. BA's second-biggest long-haul market is to India, where the majority Hindu population do not eat beef because of their beliefs. Scroll down for more... In-flight food: BA passengers will be served a...

For decades the national dish has been a staple meal on the national carrier. But now British Airways has taken beef off the menu for economy passengers amid concerns about its "religious restrictions". The airline has instead switched to a fish pie or chicken dish option for the so-called "cattle class" passengers. BA's second-biggest long-haul market is to India, where the majority Hindu population do not eat beef because of their beliefs.

Although the Chino slaughterhouse case triggered national outrage and the nation's biggest meat recall, a second suspect faced only misdemeanor charges when he surrendered this week -- until his aliases and pending drug cases emerged. "His worst problem is the felony possession for sale. It's (punishable by) mandatory state prison," San Bernardino County Deputy District Attorney Debbie Ploghaus said Thursday of the defendant, whose true name she still doesn't know for certain. "We know him as Luis Sanchez, with a birth date of 3-8-75." Under that identity, he is one of two men charged in the Hallmark/Westland Meat Co. case...

It's a Friday night in Missoula, Montana, when my buddy Eric and I walk into the Oxford Café. We make our way through the usual crowd of gamblers, pool players, drinkers, and drunks, and take a seat against the far wall. The waitress looks weary, and we look like work to her. "What'll you have?" she asks. Eric orders a hamburger. I point at the laminated menu and order scrambled eggs and brains, nicknamed "He Needs 'Em." "Impossible," the waitress says flatly. "Since mad cow disease, the USDA won't let us serve that." "I don't know why you'd want to...

The animal abuse by the employees using the forklift have more far reaching implications than the abuse itself. The risk of E.Coli, salmonella or mad cow disease contamination is much greater because of the animal being shoved across the hard surfaces where the hide and possibly meat can come into contact with these various diseases. When the animal is then processed and mixed with the other beef, it is very hard to tell which package of beef is contaminated. That is why such a large amount (143 million pounds) of beef is being recalled.

BREAKING NEWS updated 9 minutes ago LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday recalled 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a Southern California slaughterhouse that is being investigated for mistreating cattle. Officials said it was the largest beef recall in the United States, surpassing a 1999 ban of 35 million pounds of ready-to-eat meats. The federal agency said the recall will affect beef products dating to Feb. 1, 2006, that came from Chino-based Westland/Hallmark Meat Co., which supplies meat to the federal school lunch program and to some major fast-food chains.This breaking news story will be...

A SEA change in the consumption of a resource that Americans take for granted may be in store — something cheap, plentiful, widely enjoyed and a part of daily life. And it isn’t oil. It’s meat. snip To put the energy-using demand of meat production into easy-to-understand terms, Gidon Eshel, a geophysicist at the Bard Center, and Pamela A. Martin, an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago, calculated that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent it would be as if we all switched from a standard sedan — a Camry, say —...

When man began eating meat, there was only one way to preserve it, and that was to dry it. Over time it became what we know today as "Beef Jerky". http://www.gomestic.com/Cooking/How-to-Make-Perfect-Homemade-Beef-Jerky.44738

Cows flee after seeing McDonald's The Associated Press WEST HAVEN, Utah --McDonald's? The burger joint? Stampede! Eight cows escaped from a trailer when the rear gate opened as the driver pulled into a McDonald's. It took about two hours to round them up Monday. "Maybe they were going to ... hop in the freezer, save the middleman," Weber County sheriff's Sgt. Dave Creager said. Lt. Kevin Burns had another theory: "They didn't like their future." The roundup was called "Operation Hamburger Helper." A nearby resident even hopped on his horse. "I thought my eyes were lying," said Wayne Sanders, who...

The slow-motion drama swirling around Greg Niewendorp and his refusal to participate in Michigan’s bovine TB testing program, may be picking up speed.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea has effectively suspended U.S. beef imports over mad cow concerns after a recent shipment was found to have contained banned parts, a news report said Thursday. The Agriculture Ministry said it halted quarantine inspections of American beef shipments Wednesday after finding a banned vertebral column in a recent shipment, Yonhap news agency reported. Without such inspections, the beef cannot be brought to market. The banned part is considered a "specified risk material" that could carry mad cow disease. South Korea shut its doors to American beef in December 2003 after mad cow disease...

Producing 2.2lb of beef generates as much greenhouse gas as driving a car non-stop for three hours, it was claimed yesterday. That means that 2.2lb of beef is responsible for greenhouse gas emissions which have the same effect as the carbon dioxide released by an ordinary car travelling at 50 miles per hour for 155 miles, a journey lasting three hours. The amount of energy consumed would light a 100-watt bulb for 20 days. Most of the greenhouse gas emissions are in the form of methane released from the animals' digestive systems, New Scientist magazine reported.

The Humane Society of the U.S. has, for years, been trying to frighten people away from consuming meat, milk and eggs -- but its recent testimony before a congressional committee reached a new low when the HSUS president, Wayne Pacelle, made the unsupported claim that pigs could be harboring the infamous and deadly British ‘mad cow” disease. Swine veterinarians quickly pointed out that “mad cow,” or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, has never occurred naturally in swine. At the height of the British “mad cow” epidemic, both swine and cattle were exposed to the tissues from thousands of infected cattle and the...

U.S. beef is proving to be very popular in Korea. Imports of American beef were banned in Dec. 2003 on the threat of mad cow disease, but the ban was lifted recently and domestic outlets began selling it on Friday for the first time in three years and seven months. Consumer demand is now sizzling, and experts are predicting a major market shakeup once imports begin to arrive in earnest. Lotte Mart, the first of the big supermarkets to resume selling the meat, said its stock of 40 tons of chilled beef sold out on the second day Saturday at...

ALBANY, Ga. - For a quarter century, chefs at pricey steakhouses have been searing meat on burners that cook with infrared energy. Now the high-temperature technology may be coming to a backyard barbecue near you. With the expiration of a key patent, major gas grill manufacturers, including market leader Char-Broil, have scrambled to bring infrared cooking to the masses with models in the $500 to $1,000 range. Previously, such grills cost as much as $5,000. "Infrared is really hot," said Leslie Wheeler, a spokeswoman for the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association, an industry group in Arlington, Va. "They're great for...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government must allow meatpackers to test their animals for mad cow disease, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, a meatpacker based in Arkansas City, Kan., wants to test all of its cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. Larger meat companies feared that move because if Creekstone tested its meat and advertised it as safe, they could be forced to do the expensive test, too. The Agriculture Department currently regulates the test and administers it to less than 1 percent of slaughtered cows. The department...

Eating beef could threaten sons' fertility By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 1:37am BST 28/03/2007 The sons of women who regularly ate beef during pregnancy are more likely to have low sperm counts, a report claims today. The American researchers suggest the growth promoters used in cattle may be responsible. It has been known for more than 10 years that sperm counts had been falling in the western world, with scientists at Copenhagen University pointing to exposure to pesticides and industrial chemicals. The principle suspects included "gender-bender" chemicals that act like human sex hormones. The latest study - of...

Fast-food chain McDonald's is testing a bigger high-end Angus burger that costs a little bit more for the extra weight, according to a published report Wednesday. The Chicago Tribune said the new Third Pounder is currently available only in about 600 restaurant locations in Southern California. At one-third of a pound, the burger is the biggest on the McDonald's (Charts) menu at outlets where it is being tested. It is also the most expensive sandwich, priced at $3.99, the paper said. America's most amired companies The paper quoted McDonald's franchise owner Scott Frisbie as saying that he approached the company...

WASHINGTON - Milk from cloned cows is no longer welcome at the nation's biggest milk company. ADVERTISEMENT Although the government has approved meat and milk from cloned animals while it conducts further studies, Dean Foods Co. of Dallas said Thursday that its customers and consumers don't want milk from cloned animals. The $10 billion company owns Land O'Lakes and Horizon Organic, among dozens of other brands. "Numerous surveys have shown that Americans are not interested in buying dairy products that contain milk from cloned cows and Dean Foods is responding to the needs of our consumers," the company said in...

U.S. negotiator calls on Seoul to fully open bee market By Kim Deok-hyun BIG SKY RESORT, Montana, Dec. 4 (Yonhap) -- A top U.S. trade negotiator asked South Korea Monday to fully open its beef market, saying that the issue must be addressed for the successful conclusion of a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries. "We have made very clear to our Korean counterparts that in order for a successful Korea-U.S. free trade agreement to be ratified by our Congress, we need to see a full reopening of Korea's beef market for U.S. beef," Assistant U.S. Trade...

See for example this thread first. Just look what they've come up with now Pre-flavored steaks, straight from the cow! The miracle, they say? Garlic-flavoured hay! Now if cows just gave beer, I'd say, "Wow!"

Veterinarian researchers find that garlic used to ward off cattle ticks also improves taste of beef Nurit Palter Published: 11.06.06, 14:09 Soon there'll be no need to season your steak as cows will be fed garlic flavored hay. The Veterinarian Institute at the Agricultural Ministry recently conducted comprehensive research into the food being fed to cattle raised for meat. Contrary to the black and white milk cows, cattle grown for beef spend most of their time pasturing outdoors and are often infected with ticks. Research conducted by Dr Varda Shkapf, an expert on parasites at the veterinarian institute, found that...

Popeye the Sailor Man would have approved of the green, leafy spinach gobbled up by Sadex Corp. officials early Wednesday morning. Popeye definitely would not have approved of the spinach if he could have seen it under a microscope before it underwent irradiation -- the spinach contained 5 million colonies of E.coli bacteria per gram. "You would have been better off to have a cow come and dump on it," said David Corbin, chairman and chief executive officer of the Sadex Corp. Officials at the Sadex Corp. irradiated the highly contaminated spinach at the Sioux City plant, 2650 Murray St....

HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Political news March 23, 2006, 2:36PM Meatpacker Sues Feds Over Mad Cow Test By LIBBY QUAID AP Food and Farm Writer © 2006 The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A Kansas meatpacker sued the government on Thursday for refusing to let the company test for mad cow disease in every animal it slaughters. Creekstone Farms Premium Beef says it has Japanese customers who want comprehensive testing. The Agriculture Department threatened criminal prosecution if Creekstone did the tests, according to the company's lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington. [snip] It would cost about $20 per animal to...

McDonald's is paying premiums, and Wal-Mart is making demands. And, with the impending reopening of the Japan market, we're likely to see premiums equaling those producers enjoyed last fall for source- and age-verified cattle. -Troy Marshall of Seed Stock Digest If NAIS goes through McDonald's and other big buyers will stop paying premiums to farmers that offer Animal ID and Trace-Back. Everyone will be required to provide that service of trace-back so there will be no incentive for buyers who want trace-back to pay for it as stands with the existing market driven system. NAIS is a great way for...

TORONTO (CP) - It could take half a century or more for someone infected with prions - the cause of mad cow-like diseases - to start showing symptoms, say researchers, who drew that conclusion after studying a similar illness among Papua New Guinean people who once feasted on their dead. Their findings suggest that the number of human cases of variant Creutzfeld-Jacob disease (vCJD) could end up being much larger than originally suspected, say the researchers, whose study is published in Friday's edition of The Lancet. With 160 cases, the United Kingdom has the highest number of recorded cases in...

Japan has agreed to lift its ban on US beef imports, a move that will allow American producers to resume exports to their biggest overseas market. Japan's Agriculture Ministry said US imports would be allowed to restart pending successful inspections of US meat processing plants. Japan first banned imports of US beef in 2003 due to fears over so-called Mad Cow Disease, or BSE. At that time the Japanese beef market was worth $1.4bn (£758m) to the US. Previous ban end Japanese Agriculture Ministry official Hiroaki Ogura said Japanese inspectors would now visit 35 meatpacking plants in the US that...

CHICAGO - Buying organic milk these days - or organic apples, eggs, or beef - no longer has to mean an extra trip to a Whole Foods supermarket or the local co-op. Organic products now line the shelves at Safeway and Costco. And Wal-Mart - already the nation's largest organic-milk seller - says it wants to sell more organic food. Large companies including Kraft, General Mills, and Kellogg own sizable organic- and natural-food brands. Now, they are developing organic versions of their own products, too. Still, while some organic-food fans welcome its broadening appeal and availability, others worry that the...

MINNEAPOLIS - Upcoming Cinco de Mayo celebrations offer increasing opportunities for the U.S. beef industry to expand beef sales. With the rapidly growing Mexican and Hispanic population, Cinco de Mayo, celebrated May 5, has become just as important in the United States as it is in Mexico. "The Hispanic market is 'beef friendly,'" said Ron Eustice, Minnesota Beef Council executive director. "Research shows that Hispanics perceive beef as status food and have rapidly growing financial resources." The average Hispanic household consumes beef four to five times per week compared with two to three times per week for mass market, he...

Fox News Alert of a possible case of mad cow disease in the U.S...

U.S. President George W. Bush voiced high expectation Friday of Japan's early resumption of U.S. beef imports in a speech at a conference of media company managers that showed signs of Washington's increasing irritation over the issue. Japan reimposed the ban in January after spinal column--prohibited under a bilateral accord due to the risk of mad cow disease--was found in a beef shipment. In his speech, Bush said, "One of the things they [livestock farmers in the United States] constantly talk to me is, 'Get those markets open, work with the Japanese to get the market open again.'" The speech...

All of the meat products withdrawn by producer Gilde after a series of E. coli poisonings will now become fuel for buses in Fredrikstad The recalled meat will be sent for treatment and recycling, newspaper VG reports. "There we will grind everything up, then warm it up to 136C (277F), then we separate the plastic," said manager Bjørn Bu at MEG recycling. After this process the meat goes to firm FREVAR in Fredrikstad where it will be converted to biogas, which will then power the city's buses. By Monday evening about seven tons of ground beef from shops in Hedmark...

Do cows really eat fish? Do they eat fish eggs? I have personally replied (on behalf of clients) to multiple Draft Biological Opinions regarding two national forests where U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service biologists made these claims. They claimed that cows destroyed the nests (redds) of fish species that don't build nests, stepped on fish, and muddied the water of fish that spawn only in muddy water. They also designated dry washes as critical habitat for endangered species of fish.

TOKYO Jan 20, 2006 — Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Friday said Japan would completely halt imports of U.S. beef after a recent shipment was found that may contain material considered at risk for mad cow disease "This is a pity given that imports had just resumed," Koizumi told reporters. "I received the agriculture minister's report with his recommendation that the imports be halted and I think it is a good idea." Mad cow disease is the common name for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, a degenerative nerve disease in cattle that is linked to a rare but fatal nerve...

MABANK — For the first time in four years, a gourmet extravagance — authentic Japanese Kobe beef — is allowed back into the United States. The question is whether anyone will care. An American Kobe-style brand has taken its place on restaurant menus. Wagyu cattle began arriving in the United States in the 1990s, often flown over from Japan. They are fattened longer than the average American breed; they live about eight to 14 months longer than U.S. beef cattle. U.S. ranchers often crossbreed them with Angus cattle. The glossy black cows on Meliton Rincon's ranch in Athens are not...

Bush Signs $100 Billion Food and Farm Bill 1 hour, 5 minutes ago President Bush on Thursday signed a $100 billion food and farm spending bill that includes a two-year delay on labels telling grocery shoppers where their meat comes from. The legislation postpones mandatory meat labeling until 2008. Originally sought by Western ranchers and required by law in 2004, country-of-origin labeling has stalled under pressure from meatpackers and supermarkets who call it a record-keeping nightmare. The measure also overrides a court ruling on whether products labeled "USDA Organic" can contain

TOKYO, Nov 3 (Reuters) - A majority of Japanese oppose resuming imports of U.S. beef and would not buy it even if imports were resumed, a newspaper poll published on Thursday showed, in a sign of continued concern about mad cow disease. On Monday, a panel of Japan's independent Food Safety Commission said that beef from American cattle aged 20 months or younger is safe if risk materials that could transmit mad cow disease are removed, paving the way for a resumption of imports. It was not clear when the two-year ban on imports would be lifted, but Japanese media...

Despite the outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in several Brazilian southern states which prompted over forty countries to temporarily ban beef imports from the world's largest exporter, Brazil will be honoring visiting United States president with a typical South American barbecue. President Bush is scheduled to visit Brazil early next month following the Americas summit in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and President Lula da Silva has already anticipated that the distinguished leader, and Texan, will enjoy a display of “gaucho” culinary barbecue art when in Brasilia. At least fourteen FAM outbreaks have been officially reported in five states, including Sao Paulo,...

A leading medical journal has published a disturbing theory on the origins of mad cow disease, suggesting it may have developed because human remains from the Indian subcontinent were mixed into cattle feed in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s. The authors say the practice may still be taking place elsewhere, adding it is important to discover whether other countries are importing animal byproducts contaminated with human remains that are destined for feed mills. Canada's leading expert on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies - as mad cow and its sister diseases are called - says the unsettling hypothesis may be accurate....

A research team is proposing a new technique that would allow meat to be grown in a laboratory for mass consumption, according to a report. Researchers in the U.S. say the technology now exists now to produce processed meats such as burgers and sausages, starting with cells taken from cows, chickens, pigs, fish or other animals. Growing meat without the animal would not only reduce the need for the animals -- which often are kept in less than ideal conditions -- but may also address a number of environmental ills blamed on meat production. Cultured meat could also be tailored...

Harvey M. Sapolsky, who directs the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told some unpleasant home truths to Canadians last month in a full-page article published in the National Post. There has been little response to it, either officially or editorially, and that is significant. "Canada is a security risk to the United States," wrote Sapolsky. "Anti-Americanism is the unstated essence of the modern Canadian identity." But there are reasons for this. After the Second World War, when Canada's historic British connection began to decline, "the threat of being absorbed, not by a conquering but by a...

WASHINGTON (CP) - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Michael Johanns took immediate steps to reopen the border to Canadian cattle late Thursday after a federal appeals court dismissed arguments that imports could spread mad cow disease. American officials have already been in contact with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to prepare certifying cattle for shipment, said Johanns. Canadian officials expected trucks to roll next week to take cows south for the first time since May 2003 when Canada discovered its first case of mad cow. The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was released...

U.S. border reopened to Canadian cattle Last Updated Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:36:28 EDT CBC News The American border is "immediately" open to Canadian cattle following a court decision that overturned a temporary injunction banning their importation because of fears of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease. "The ruling is effective immediately, we are immediately taking steps to resume the importation of cattle under 30 months of age from Canada," said Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns in a late night statement. The decision by the three-judge panel of the federal appeals court was released a day after...