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unusual facts about mad cow



Food libel laws

In 1998, television talk-show host Oprah Winfrey and one of her guests, Howard Lyman, were involved in a lawsuit surrounding the Texas version of a food libel law known as the False Disparagement of Perishable Food Products Act of 1995, for a 1996 episode of her show in which the two made disparaging comments about beef in relation to the mad cow scare.


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Arno Doerksen

Doerksen was chair of the Alberta Beef Producers during the BSE (mad cow disease) crisis in 2003 and 2004.

Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company

The USDA stressed that it is "extremely unlikely" that the cattle involved were at risk for Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad-cow disease due to the employment of multiple safeguards.

Hyperspectral imaging

Another application in agriculture is the detection of animal proteins in compound feeds to avoid bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad-cow disease.

Mad Cow Theatre

Mad Cow Theatre has also been named "Best Theatre" by Orlando Magazine for several years in a row.

Red cow

Red Cow interchange, an infamous junction/roundabout located in Dublin aka the Mad Cow Roundabout