Mad Cow Disease (page5)

The Times of London is reporting that Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner, the man generally credited with the discovery of mad-cow-disease-causing “prions,” may have found a cure for the…

Terry Singeltary, an anti-meat activist who believes that the U.S. government is covering up the existence of mad cow disease in America, is being treated like Deep…

It’s been nearly three years since Sheldon Rampton (along with his partner John Stauber) published a scare-campaign manifesto entitled Mad Cow U.S.A.: Could the Nightmare Happen Here? Most thinking people…

Ralph Nader’s “Public Citizen” has teamed up with a whistleblower organization called the Government Accountability Project, and both groups are spreading new fears about mad cow disease. Although there has…

Gro Harlem Brundtland, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), is pushing hard for international control over food safety. The “Codex Alimentarius” Commission, a joint group of WHO and United…

Despite an organized activist campaign saying otherwise, the British Food Standards Agency has declared that there is no massive, hidden epidemic of mad cow disease in Europe. So far this year only 76 cows have tested positive for the disease, out of 1,700,000 head of cattle tested. England's Consumers' Association now advises people to make their own "choices about safety and the relative levels of risk from eating beef that's produced within the UK or elsewhere."

There’s a late entrant in the global contest to see who can jump to the most outrageous conclusions regarding mad cow disease, and it’s High Times magazine. This counter-culture…

In a recent issue of National Review, James Swan takes stock of the recurring hysteria related to what some media have called “mad deer disease.” As you may have…

In the Food & Restaurants section of its annual “Best of Palm Beach” issue, the Broward Palm-Beach (FL) New Times pauses to declare that steak houses are the “Best…

If you haven’t seen the April 30 issue of People magazine, pick up a copy. Page 95 is a profile of risk-analysis expert George Gray, who brings some much-needed sanity…