Federal testing for mad cow disease a failure, law review editor says
...d the disease spread to Europe and Asia before the slaughter of cattle and better testing helped curb the outbreak. The Bush administration's approach to safeguarding the nation's supply of beef has been to deny that there's a problem and to resist comprehensive BSE testing, Gregory L. Berlowitz, an editor at...Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history
...ral government's decision to outlaw the commercial slaughter of migratory birds in 1913. "As supplies dropped and prices rose, some of these species became a status symbol. It seems to confirm that many people simply want to eat something that is rare." Some 200,000 restaurant menus have been uncovered by th...