TAIPEI, Taiwan Taiwan has lifted a four-year-old ban on Canadian beef imports that followed a mad cow disease scare, but the meat is restricted to boneless cuts from cattle under 30 months old. The department said imported beef must also be free of brain or spinal material, believed to have a higher risk of carrying mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE. Canada has had 10 reported BSE cases since the country's first discovery, on May 20, 2003, which drove...

Designer meat would theoretically be free of hormones, antibiotics, and the threat of mad cow disease or bird flu. Scientists can add vitamins, fatty acids and flavors to the meat, which could one day be processed into food products. Revolting? You bet, but have you ever visited a sausage factory? Currently costing around $100,000 per kilogram, a choice cut of lab meat makes Kobe beef seem like a bargain. Using pig stem cells, scientists have been growing lab meat for years, and it could...

Dairy cattle replaced much of the beef cattle production here. Except for what was consumed by the relatively small human population or converted to beef jerky, most of the meat went to waste. Homer writes of a new twist on the stories of the cattle trails that once linked San Luis Obispo county to its prime cattle market, the gold field towns and cities of the Sierra Nevada. The narrow bladed grasses introduced to the Franciscan missions in Southern California during the 1770s-90s...

Cattle feedyards like the one Kyle Williams manages in Texas, the nation s leading cattle-producing state, is one of the first stops on the road to higher beef prices. LUBBOCK, Texas Motorists might save a few cents a gallon filling their tanks with ethanol, but they could soon be paying more for a burger and a milkshake as a result. Department of Agriculture reported that the average price for choice beef in May was already the second highest on record at nearly $4. About a quarter of the...

I'm not referring to the mad cow disease or bird flu, which appear in all news and daily capture our attention, but on the way we are cheated by food producers. The meat also contains many drugs, the most frequent being Estradiol 17 Beta, testosterone, progesteron, trenbolone, antibiotics and anti-infectious chemicals. Fish, meat and dairy products can be rich in dioxins, teratogenic and carcinogenic molecules, which are fat-soluble and readily integrate into the food chain. The greatest...

CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--Analysts and brokers expect Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle to open flat to down 30 points on the heels of last week's lower-than-anticipated fed cattle trade, boxed beef's downward spiral and Friday's generally bearish-construed monthly cattle data. CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--Analysts and brokers expect Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle to open flat to down 30 points on the heels of last week's lower-than-anticipated fed cattle trade, boxed beef's downward...