Meat is a perishable product. Selling it assumes a big risk of spoiling and loss if unsold, so the markup is high. That markup becomes structural to the store’s income. The markup is reduced only with ...

Canada announced a case of mad cow disease on Sunday, days after the Bush administration said it would lift a U.S. ban on Canadian cattle.

NPR's Mike Pesca talks to Canadian rancher Melvin McCrae about so-called "mad cow" disease and its effect on the Canadian beef industry. In May, the first case of mad cow disease in Canadian ...

Canadian farmer Karl Schoenrock has beef with Knickers, the viral 6-foot-4 Australian steer. He claims his own steer, Dozer, is an inch taller. Schoenrock and his wife, Raelle, who run Kismet Creek… ...

Canadian officials downplayed the significance of the origins of a Holstein infected with mad cow disease (search), saying Monday other factors need examination before concluding a Canadian farm ...

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration said Thursday it will seek to increase cattle and beef imports from Canada despite questions about Canadian safeguards against mad cow disease. Canada ...

WASHINGTON — Scrambling to trace the history of a bovine afflicted with “mad cow” disease, Canadian authorities quarantined two additional farms Wednesday where the animal had spent time and ...

Canadian officials said no part of the cow - the third case of the disease ever found in Canada - has entered the human or animal feed system.

A Canadian cow has made the record book for most milk produced in a lifetime. The Ottawa Citizen reports the cow has produced more than 57,000 gallons. That's more than six times the average.

WASHINGTON - Government officials were trying Friday to trace a cow shipped to the United States from the same Canadian herd as an animal infected with mad cow disease, but officials said it was ...

The first Canadian cow suffering from the disease was discovered in May 2003 and the first case of the disease in the U.S. herd -- in a cow imported from Canada -- was recorded last December.