mad cow disease

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is the name for the human version of Mad Cow disease, caused by a troublesome improperly folded prion. Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or BSE) can cause humans to become diseased, but that is very uncommon.

These 'spongy-brain' diseases are caused by prions, which are essentially nothing more than strands of mis-folded proteins that, during normal

Just over three weeks ago, a hidden camera recording from a meatpacking plant in California was released showing workers abusing cattle that was not in government-regulated condition to be processed for human consumption (short story: if an animal is too sick to walk into a slaughterhouse, it is deemed unfit for slaughter because it is assumed to have wallowed in waste matter that creates risk of e. Coli and salmonella and that their immune systems are too weak to combat other diseases such

America's largest beef recall in history.

NYT:

FYI, 143 Million pounds of ground beef is being recalled.

A California meat company on Sunday issued the largest beef recall in history, 143 million pounds, some of which was used in school lunch programs, Department of Agriculture officials announced.

I wrote a few days ago about Hallmark Meat Packing, a slaughterhouse in California, that was using downer cows in their meat production. It seems form an article posted today on the Tennessean’s website that meat from this plant has made it into the Tennessee school system. Local officials have ordered the meat pulled