Some useful links, reccommended books, and other facts on Mad Cow Disease:
US
FDA fact Sheet A useful set of links, reports and facts, from the
Food and Drug Administration.
CDC
Information Page on BSE/CJD From the Center for Disease Control
in Atlanta, a page with the latest information on tracking bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (mad-cow disease) in the U.S.
Nova
Online: Mad Cow Disease The online companion page to the PBS Nova
special on Mad Cow Disease. Originally Broadcast in 1999, the companion page
is still up, and is a useful, understandable and concise primer.
Friends
of the Earth Mad Cow Disease Fact Sheet From the environmental
organization Friends of the Earth, another concise introductory fact sheet.
www.organicconsumers.org
- Mad Cow Page An active and current list of relevant news articles,
from the Organic Consumers Association.
www.bseinfo.org
The industry speaks: An info page on BSE, from the National Cattlemen's
Beef Association.
Medline
Plus - Mad Cow Disease Page An info page, from the U.S. National
Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
www.bmj.com:
Collected Resources, variant Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease From the
publishing arm of the British Medical Association comes this page of articles
on medical research and treatment of CJD.
www.mad-cow.org
. Although its last update is from April 2001, the scientific links
in the right hand column are very useful.
Reccommended Reading:
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and
Health (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Marion Nestle
The first book details some disturbing aspects of fast-food business practices,
and Nestle's book takes on the food industry as a whole.
The following countries have banned U.S. beef because of a case of
mad cow disease in a Washington state cow:
—Australia
—Brazil
—Canada (ban limited to processed meats)
—China, including Hong Kong
—Colombia
—Egypt
—Indonesia
—Japan
—Malaysia
—Mexico
—Russia
—Singapore
—South Africa
—South Korea
—Taiwan
—Thailand
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
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