03/12/2010 08:13AM
A recent decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to scrap a national animal identification system could seriously hinder U.S. veterinarians' ability to track diseased animals and prevent the spread of those diseases -- diseases that could spread to humans and cost U.S. farmers millions of dollars.
03/12/2010 08:00AM
The knives at the slaughterhouse weren't properly sanitized, a government investigator said, and employees at the meatpacking plant didn't know how to test the carcasses of days-old veal calves for a dangerous pathogen. Food safety conditions were so poor at the Vermont processing facility that it should close before someone got sick, officials warned.
03/12/2010 07:43AM
Utah ranchers and cowboys can be among the first in the nation to use the Internet to renew or apply for a livestock brand.
03/12/2010 07:38AM
In the wake of news reports that the City Council of Colorado Springs has decided to pull all the trash cans from public parks in an effort to reduce the city's ballooning budget, PETA has sent an urgent letter to Colorado Springs Mayor Lionel Rivera offering to pay to maintain the receptacles in the city's public parks in exchange for placing ads on them.
03/12/2010 07:34AM
The U.S. Forest Service must re-examine how livestock grazing affects sage grouse habitat in southwestern Montana after a federal appeals court ruled the agency's original assessment was not reliable.