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...Cattle Crisis "How Now, Mad Cow?" described the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in a dairy cow in the U.S. [Jan. 12]. Mad-cow disease? They should call it mad-human disease! Only we humans would make a cannibal out of a vegetarian animal by feeding it contaminated meat-and-bone meal, exposing it to a horrible nervous disorder and then be mainly concerned with our inability to eat it. Which species, I ask, is mad? Lakshmi Jackman Austin...
...Setting the Record Straight ?Our report on mad-cow disease [Jan. 12] had a headline that read in part, "Big Beef was doing fine until disease felled a heifer ..." The animal that became ill was a six-year-old dairy cow-one that had already borne a calf and thus was not a heifer, a young female cow that has not yet had a calf...
...Fast-food giants such as McDonald's procure beef from all over, but Yoshinoya imports almost 100% of its meat from cheap U.S. producers. When Japan banned imports of American beef in late December because of mad-cow disease, Yoshinoya chief executive Shuji Abe called it "the worst of worst-case scenarios" and then announced the unthinkable: Yoshinoya's 980 Japanese outlets would run out of beef by mid-February. Gyudon aficionados rushed the counters, and sales jumped 10% from the previous month. Now the company concedes it might buy domestic or Australian beef, even though its prices would rise...
...fact that some of these early experiments could take place with existing technology on future rovers is one reason mission advocates question Bush's long time frame for his Mars flights. "Johnson Space Center was a cow pasture when we started the lunar program," says Humboldt Mandell, a planetary scientist at the University of Texas who managed the last Mars initiative, "and still we got to the moon in seven years from a cold start...
...from their sale. All his royalty payments went into a trust fund managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). If Bruno needed to buy something, he had to appeal to the local BIA agent, and he was rarely given cash. When he wanted to buy a cow, the price was deducted from his account and given directly to the seller. When he bought groceries, he paid for them with a BIA voucher...