The worldwide export ban was imposed in March 1996, in response to the announcement of a suspected link between BSE in cattle and the human equivalent of the disease, CJD.

BBC: British beef fightback starts

The only way to stop this insanity is for customers to start showing up as human beings and not just as cattle to be herded.

WSJ: The Customer as a God: The Future of Shopping

There are no cattle, no people, no human footprints at all.

ECONOMIST: South Sudan

Cattle farming alone consumes nearly 8% of global human water use.

CNN: 'Meatless Monday' too hot a potato for USDA

Cattle, hogs, sheep and poultry are raised for human consumption, their meds controlled by farmers and ranchers from birth to death (generally around age two).

FORBES: MoMA Caf�� Chef To Serve Illegal, Tainted Horse Meat?

For most of his life, Faustino's sole human contact has occurred once every two years, when he herds his cattle to the nearest town to sell.

CNN: The loneliest cowboy in the world

Mad cow disease has killed thousands of cattle across Europe and is believed by scientists to be linked to the human form of the ailment Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

CNN: France urges better beef labelling

Chickens, hogs, cattle are raised as food animals and given drugs that the FDA approves of for human consumption, horses are raised as companion animals and medicated as pets such as dogs and cats.

FORBES: Over Public Outcry, Governor Signs Horse Slaughter Bill

Five years after Parliament agreed suspect cattle parts (brains, spinal cords and other offal) should be kept out of the human food chain, beef carcasses ready for the butchers' shops were found with the offal still in place.

BBC: BSE: lessons for science?