| April 12, 2005 | -
American and Japanese scientists proclaimed cloned
cattle safe to eat.
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BBC News
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| January 4, 2005 | - Aid efforts were temporarily halted when an airplane carrying emergency supplies hit a herd of cows.
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Abqtrib.com
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| October 7, 2004 | - Scientists sequenced the genome of a Hereford cow.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| August 10, 2004 | - there was a scandal in Australian
cattle circles over udder doping.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| July 10, 2004 | - Federal health officials were thinking about banning the practice of feeding pork, chicken, and other animal parts to cattle; the pigs and chickens eat rendered cattle and thus could transmit mad cow disease prions. There was apparently no plan to stop feeding cattle huge quantities of cattle blood, an obvious vector for the disease, and cattle will continue to enjoy the feathers and excrement of 8.5 billion chickens.
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New York Times
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| June 6, 2004 | - President George W. Bush traveled to France to attend a ceremony commemorating the D-Day invasion and attempted to play down his dispute with President Jacques Chirac over the invasion of Iraq; Bush told French journalists that he was never angry with the French or with Chirac for his refusal to endorse the war, and he even invited Chirac to visit the ranch down in Crawford, Texas. "If he wants to come and see cows, he's welcome to come out here and see some cows," Bush said, apparently unaware that Chirac, a former agriculture minister, is a cattle expert.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 31, 2004 | -
Kirin Brewery Co. announced that it had genetically
engineered a cow, which has not yet been born, that will be immune to mad cow disease.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 24, 2004 | - Scientists discovered prions in the muscle of a sheep infected with scrapie; experts were very quick to say that this does not necessarily pose any danger to humans who eat lamb, even though scrapie prions are believed to have caused mad cow disease. A prion expert at the National Institutes of Health predicted that "within the next year, somebody will make a big splash by finding it in the muscles of cattle and the beef industry will go crazy."
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New York Times
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| April 23, 2004 | - Agriculture officials were still trying to convince Japan to drop its ban on American beef that has not been tested for mad cow disease.
| Source:
Seattle Times
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| April 10, 2004 | - The USDA rejected a request from a Kansas
beef company that asked for permission to test all its cattle for mad cow disease; the decision was announced by the department's undersecretary for marketing and regulation.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 4, 2004 | - The inspector general of the USDA opened a criminal investigation into whether the Washington State mad cow was falsely listed as a downer; the man who killed the cow, the man who took the cow to slaughter, and the owner of the slaughterhouse have all said that the cow was able to walk. A spokeswoman for the agency said that she could not "fathom" the notion that a high-ranking USDA official could have ordered the falsification, though she did not deny the charge but simply repeated that she could not "fathom" it.
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New York Times
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| February 27, 2004 | - A large beef producer in Kansas applied to test all its cattle for mad cow disease so that it can resume exporting its beef to Japan. "The problem we're having now is that the U.S.D.A. is not wanting to do this," said the company's president. "They don't want to test. They don't want to recognize BSE is a problem. They are not going to allow anyone to test until they decide how or when. We believe that may be never."
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New York Times
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| February 9, 2004 | - Foot and mouth disease was killing cattle and pigs in Vietnam.
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 5, 2004 | - A panel of international experts said that mad cow disease is now "indigenous in North America" and advised the United States to ban feeding animal protein to cattle. The panel's chairman said that if the U.S. performed adequate tests it could find "a case a month."
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 22, 2004 | - An Indian diamond seller who had hidden $900 worth of small diamonds in a pile of hay was busy feeding laxatives to his cow.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 16, 2003 | -
Cattle prices were up.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 28, 2003 | -
Scientists in New Zealand revealed that they have genetically engineered cattle to produce higher levels of protein in their milk, which could speed cheese production.
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| June 11, 2002 | -
Experts said that many more cases will probably be discovered since Israel has for many years imported cattle feed containing rendered animal carcasses from Britain and other European countries.
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| March 5, 2002 | -
The Texas veterinarian who first isolated the Ames strain of anthrax was fighting $9,000 in fines for burning the carcasses of anthrax-infected cattle, in violation of Texas air pollution rules.
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| January 1, 2002 | -
Farmers in Thailand started an organization to promote the use of dried cattle dung; Sarawut Supalaksuksakorn, a spokesman for the group, pointed out that the 38,500 cattle in the Sikhoraphum district produce 197,000 kilograms of dung every day.
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| November 13, 2001 | - The government of Uttar Pradesh, India, was encouraging people to use cow's urine to cure diabetes and heart disease.
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| October 23, 2001 | - It was revealed that in 1944 Britain manufactured 5 million anthrax
cattle cakes that were to be airdropped (in “Operation Vegetarian”) over Germany; the expectation was that the disease would kill all the cattle and then kill all the Germans.
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| October 2, 2001 | - Some people in India were using cow urine to cure indigestion and skin cancer.
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| June 12, 2001 | -
Australia was vaccinating
sheep and cattle to prevent farting, which emits methane, a potent gas that contributes to global warming.
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| May 22, 2001 | - The leader of the research team that cloned Dolly the sheep warned against the premature cloning of farm
animals for meat and milk production; cattle
clones have suffered from severe defects such as diabetes, immune-system deficiencies, giant tongues, intestinal blockages, and squashed faces.
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Farmers in the Dutch town Kootwijkerbroek protested the slaughter of their cattle by authorities worried about foot-and-mouth disease; police used water cannons and bulldozers to clear roadblocks set up by the protesters.
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Britain was burying hundreds of thousands of sheep and cattle that have been killed in an attempt to control the spread of foot-and-mouth disease; scientists were trying to figure out whether the disease can be transmitted via the smoke of burning animals.
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| March 27, 2001 | - After months of dithering, United States
agriculture agents seized a flock of sheep from Skunk Hollow Farm in Vermont that are suspected of having a form of mad-cow disease. Twenty-one cattle in Texas will be destroyed because of similar concerns.
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| March 6, 2001 | -
British and French governments were slaughtering tens of thousands of sheep and cattle in an increasingly futile attempt to control the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, a virus that is about as severe as the common cold.
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| February 27, 2001 | -
Britain banned all exports of live animals, milk, and meat, after foot and mouth disease was discovered among some pigs and cattle; Britons were asked to stay away from the countryside; Ireland stationed extra troops along its border to keep out wayward British cows.
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| February 27, 2001 | -
Scientists working for PPL Theraputics transformed cattle cells into stem cells, which were then persuaded to become human heart tissue.
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| February 20, 2001 | -
France said it would kill 10,000 head of cattle a week in an attempt to raise beef prices, which have been depressed by the mad cow panic.
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| January 30, 2001 | - One thousand Texas
cattle were quarantined after it was discovered that they were fed ground-up ruminants in violation of a ban designed to prevent mad cow disease.
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| January 30, 2001 | - Millions of cattle were freezing to death in Mongolia.
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| January 9, 2001 | - Spanish cattlemen were trying to prevent their government from killing whole herds when one cow comes down with mad cow disease.
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| December 12, 2000 | - The European Union decided to stop feeding ground-up farm
animals to other farm animals for at least six months in an attempt to stop the spread of mad cow disease; all cattle over the age of thirty months must be either tested or destroyed.
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| December 12, 2000 | - Testing was said to be expensive; two million cattle could be slaughtered.
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| November 21, 2000 | - The European Commission announced its intention to test all beef cattle for mad cow disease.
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| November 21, 2000 | -
Sales of beef in France dropped, even at McDonalds, even though France has rigid controls on the provenance of its homegrown beef cattle (each cow is given a “passport” at birth documenting its parentage and place of origin, which must be submitted to the slaughterhouse).
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