Mad Cow

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• Vultures under threat

  
  The Olive Press — Authority: 433
  SPAIN’s vultures are under threat from a lack of carrion – the carcasses of dead livestock – according to Spanish scientists. New regulations introduced since the onslaught of mad cow disease in 2002 have meant that vultures now have less food on offer. The dead bodies of farm animals are now cleared away ...
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• Bjorn Lomborg’s “The Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank” hopefully will not be the tone-giver of the aimed for COPENHAGEN CONSENSUS.

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  Our website dealt already with the topics brought forward and the persona of Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish idol of the American right. We keep wondering who actually supports his activities – could it be that the support comes just from pay by lobbying-for-business-interests media like The Wall Street Journal, that hired ...
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• China on the road to Copenhagen – still old POSITION 1: Why Should We Have to reduce our Carbon Footprint? Per capita, China produces only 20 percent of America’s carbon emissions.

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  China on Reducing Its Carbon Footprint: Why Should We Have to? They’ve got a point. Per capita, China only produces 20 percent of America’s carbon emissions. Post Tools. Posted by Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation at 3:29 PM on November 24, 2009. BEIJING — Ambassador Yu Qingtai is China’s point man on global ...
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• SaBTO Recommends Use Of P-Capt(R) Prion Reduction Filter To Protect Children From VCJD Blood Transmission

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 702
  ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TSX:PLI) ("ProMetic") and MacoPharma SA ("MacoPharma") announce that the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs ("SaBTO"), an independent Committee that advises the UK Department of Health ("DoH"), has recommended the adoption of the P-Capt® prion reduction filter ...
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• Norway has problems when others want to see more environmentally friendly shipping – they own many ships. This mars the image of a great Nation.

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  Norway is a shipping world power – so -  despite all the positive elements in the country – the masters of shipping do not want to be told to improve their fleet. We know what we say because we were involved years ago in the effort to see the UN make some sort of recommendation to have oil tankers obligated to be ...
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• Researchers Find New Piece Of BSE Puzzle

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 702
  A new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) could be a step closer based on new results from scientists at the University of Leeds. The team has found that a protein called Glypican-1 plays a key role in the development of BSE.
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• OPEC Secretary-General Abdallah al-Badri told a UK newspaper – The Times – that the Kyoto Protocol, the precursor to Copenhagen, had included the pledge of financial assistance to poorer oil-producig countries if it is decided to use less oil. The old com

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  OPEC chief calls for climate talks compensation. by Avril Ormsby on Sunday, 22 November 2009   http://www.arabianbusiness.com/574191-op… OIL USE: OPEC Secretary-General Abdallah al-Badri told a UK newspaper – The Times – poorer oil-producing countries should be compensated for lost revenues after climate ...
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• One last email my father in law sent me.. funny but true…

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  > Think about this: > 1. Cows > 2. The Constitution > 3. The Ten Commandments > > ———————————————————————— > > COWS > Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the > mad cow epidemic our government could track a single ...
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• Margareta Wahlstrom of Sweden, head of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) linked rightly to climate change Hurricanes, Cyclones, Tsunamis, Earthquakes disasters, in rich and poor nations.

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  UN DISASTER CHIEF KNOWS FIRST-HAND WHAT COPENHAGEN FAILURE COULD ENTAIL Among those keeping a close eye on the outcome of next month’s climate summit in Copenhagen is the head of the United Nations body dealing with disaster risk reduction, who has seen first-hand the devastation wrought by increasingly frequent ...
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• Leeds Research Finds New Piece Of BSE Puzzle

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 702
  New research funded mainly through the Wellcome Trust with additional support from the Medical Research Council shows that a new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) could be a step closer. The research carried out by scientists at the University ...
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• Unraveling the Mad Cow Mystery

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 543
  FRIDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers may be moving closer to better treatments for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease, and the related condition called Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. read more
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• Brain Disease "Resistance Gene" Could Offer Insights Into CJD

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 702
  A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a CJD-like fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic resistance to the disease, according to new research by Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists. Kuru is a fatal prion disease, similar to CJD in humans and BSE in animals, ...
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• A Generation Of Oprah Winfrey: Top Ten Moments

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 796
  The power of Oprah Winfrey is such that while news Winfrey would be ending her talk show in 2011 was not really a shock to anyone, the idea of turning on the TV at 4pm and not finding Oprah on her couch may take some time to absorb. The Oprah Winfrey Show has been in syndication since 1986 meaning, among other ...
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• New Guinean Cannibals Evolved Resistance To Mad Cow-Like Disease

  
  80beats — Authority: 630
  Members of a tribe in Papua New Guinea has evolved resistance to a affliction similar to mad cow disease (called Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, or CJD, in people). How did they do it? Cannibalism, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine . The Papua New Guinea variant is called kuru, and it was a ...
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• November 19, 2009Brain-eating tribe enriches understanding of mad cow disease

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  November 19, 2009 Brain-eating tribe enriches understanding of mad cow disease Mark Henderson, Science Editor A cannibalistic ritual in which the brains of dead tribespeople were eaten by their relatives has triggered one of the most striking examples of rapid human evolution on record, scientists have discovered. In ...
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• Braineating tribe could help find treatment for mad cow disease

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  A cannibalistic tribe in Papua New Guinea whose members used to eat the brains of dead relatives provides an example of evolution that could help find a treatment for mad cow disease according to scientists.
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• Don’t Touch That Pork: A Few Swine Flu Truths And

  
  Health Tips — Authority: 132
  Don’t Touch That Pork: A Few Swine Flu Truths And Myths With all the wailing and gnashing of teeth involved with the latest flu outbreak, I think it’s time we set a few things straight about the swine flu. Think of…
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• A National Teach-In on Climate Change, Wednesday, November 19th, 2009.

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  Please look at -   http://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12507… for the Wednesday, November 19, 2009 – NOON Eastern – 9AM Pacific time – National TEACH-IN – Days of National Engagement in Climate Change. This one is with Dr. Mohan Munasinghe, IPCC Vice Chair from Sri Lanka, and is organized by the Bard ...
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• Farmers, Ranchers Fighting Back Against FDA Tyranny Over Animal Farms

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  Source: Natural News A bill that would grant the FDA expanded authority to inspect farms has come under fire from ranchers and farmers concerned about increased government interference in their operations. In response to a recent series of food-borne illness outbreaks, a bill has been approved by the House ...
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• Thousands of Taiwanese protest resumption of US beef imports

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Taipei, Nov 14 (DPA) Thousands of Taiwanese Saturday marched in the capital Taipei to protest against the end of a six-year ban on the import of some types of US beef products — which they fear could spread the deadly mad cow disease.“No toxic US beef,” shouted some 5,000 banners-waving protesters as they ...
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