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...others are racing to determine whether the disease is caused by a virus, how it?s transmitted and how it progresses. Until such questions are answered, radical options such as relocating devils onto offshore islands remain too risky. No one knows if DFTD could jump to livestock or people, and it?s so cryptic, Loh says, that pathologists cannot agree on what sort of tumor it is: ?The only things we?re certain of are that it?s spreading and that it?s affecting animals in the prime of their lives...
...confident that we can do the same thing in other livestock, like cows or pigs,” Kang said. “We need to collaborate with some other party—you need a farm setting. However, our next immediate target is fish...
...short, America's $4.3 billion beef-export business is pretty much dead meat, at least for now. "We still haven't felt the full shock of this because of the holidays," says James Robb, director of the Livestock Marketing Information Center in Lakewood, Colo. Don Roose, president of U.S. Commodities Inc., a grain-and-livestock investment firm in West Des Moines, Iowa, predicts the damage will be long-term: "We've already got Taiwan saying they're going to ban U.S. beef for seven years...
...applicant comes from a ranch in the outlying area; his family raises Angus steers, and we talk for a little while about mad cow disease, about which he is extremely well-informed. Even with the mad cow scourge (which is really more of a whimper, he tells me), livestock sales shouldn’t decline much. (At this point, he holds a can of Copenhagen my way; I wave it off, while he takes a dip.) He’s a guy who certainly deserves to get into Harvard on his various merits—a student leader in Future...
...assume that what worked for Greeks and Italians 40 years ago will work for you. After all, they typically ate a pound of fruit a day (equal to four medium apples) and little red meat, and many of them got lots of exercise tilling fields and tending livestock. "The Mediterranean diet works well in the Mediterranean," says Yale's Katz. "My concern about it in the U.S. is that people will continue to go to Burger King but just dump olive oil over their French fries...