American buffalo slaughter fueled by international trade
...regard to the environment: most significantly, the slaughter of the plains bison, or buffalo. In a working pa...Scott Taylor argues that the story of the buffalo slaughter on the Great Plains is not, at bottom, an American one. Instead, Taylor argues that the slaughter of...Link between beef consumption during pregnancy and reduced sperm quality in sons
...sidues of these chemicals remain in the meat after slaughter and so, in the USA, the FDA has regulated their use to avoid unintended adverse effects in humans eating the meat and defined an "acceptable daily intake". The International Joint Food and Agricultural Organizations World Health Organization Expert C...Composting may be alternative in wake of horse slaughter bill
...Sept. 7 the House approved the Act, which bans the slaughter ofhorses for human consumption by a vote of 263-146. The Senate has yet toschedule the issue for consideration. Approximately 90,000 horses, or 1 percent of the U.S. horse population,is slaughtered annually, said Dr. Lance Baker, West Texas A&M U...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- August 9, 2006
...port results of a survey of DLC levels in the four slaughter classes that represent about 90 percent of meat and poultry production in the United States. None of the chickens or turkeys and only 5 of 139 cattle and 3 of 136 hogs exceeded existing regulatory limits on dioxins, which have been adopted in the Eur...Federal testing for mad cow disease a failure, law review editor says
...d the disease spread to Europe and Asia before the slaughter of cattle and better testing helped curb the outbreak. The Bush administration's approach to safeguarding the nation's supply of beef has been to deny that there's a problem and to resist comprehensive BSE testing, Gregory L. Berlowitz, an editor at ...Report recommends renewed focus on food and agriculture research
...and mouth disease, an outbreak of which led to the slaughter of more than six million animals in England in 2001, and potato late blight, which caused the great potato famine in Ireland in the 19th Century. A new variant of the blight emerged in the United States in the 1980s causing serious losses and even b...Key target for Foot and Mouth drug revealed
...ere not deployed and the government relied on mass slaughter of five million animals to bring the epidemic under control. Protease inhibitors were developed against HIV in the 1980s and 1990s, the first going on sale in 1996. However, interactions between the drugs and the HIV virus have given rise to drug-res...Beef feeding research studies pasture vs. grain
... Center at Steeles Tavern. The animals are sent to slaughter in the fall and their meat is evaluated at the University of Georgia. The meat evaluation stage takes one rib from each steer and tests it for cooking qualities, taste, and fat and bone content. The meat is analyzed for minerals, vitamins, and fatty...Albatross study provides new information vital to their conservation
...n and feeding patterns to reduce their unnecessary slaughter by long-line fisheries. The study is reported in the journal Science , and outlines, for the first time, the year-round habitat of the grey-headed albatross. Leading author Professor John Croxall from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said, "By underst...