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1. Cows - Scottish Highland (Oakland Zoo)
   Provides facts, a picture and a movie. A special adaptation of the Scottish Highland cattle is "Long thick hair to withstand cold winters."

2. Cows (Electronic Zoo)
   Provides a very comprehensive list of sources of information on cows.

3. Sea Cows (About.com - Lundberg)
   Describes the marine animal. 5-01

4. Cows Resources (Pegmih)
   Provides resources for cows, in alphabetic order by topic. 5-02

5. Cows - Mad Cow Disease in Veterinary Medicine (Awesome Library)

6. 12-30-03 USDA Bans "Downer" Cows for Meat (USAToday.com)
   "Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman Tuesday announced a list of new restrictions to further enhance the safety of the American beef supply, including a meatpacking ban on the use of sick 'downer' cattle like the one discovered last week with mad cow disease."
   
   "She also announced bans against the use of small intestines and head and spinal tissue from older cattle in the U.S. food chain, as well as changes in slaughterhouse techniques with the aim of preventing accidental contamination of meat with cow nerve tissue. Mad cow disease is spread through such brain and spinal cord tissue." 12-03

7. Cows (Awesome Library)

8. Cows - Mad Cow Disease (Russell Knightley Media)
   Provides illustrations of prions, which are implcated in BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or Mad Cow Disease) and its human counterpart nvCJD (new variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease). 12-03

9. Cows - Mad Cow Disease News (Yahoo.com)
   Provides news related to the spread of Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). 12-03

10. Cows - Mad Cow Disease News (Organic Consumers Association)
    Provides news and facts related to the spread of Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). 12-03

11. Cows - Mad Cow Disease News (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
    Provides news and facts related to the spread of Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). 12-03

12. Cows - Mad Cow Disease Questions (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
    Provides facts about Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). "BSE is a disease that affects cattle. However, there is a disease similar to BSE called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), or vCJD, which is found in humans. There have been a small number of cases of vCJD reported, primarily in the United Kingdom, occurring in people who consumed beef that may have been contaminated. (As of May 2003, there have been a total of approximately 139 cases of vCJD worldwide.) There is strong scientific evidence (epidemiological and laboratory) that the agent that causes BSE in cattle is the agent that causes vCJD in people." 12-03

13. Cows - Mad Cow Disease News (Centers for Disease Control)
    Provides news and facts related to the spread of Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). 12-03

14. Cows - Mad Cow Disease and New Variant CJD (Centers for Disease Control)
    Provides facts related to the spread of Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). "New variant CJD (vCJD) is a rare, degenerative, fatal brain disorder."
    
    "Although experience with this new disease is limited, evidence to date indicates that there has never been a case transmitted from person to person."
    
    "As of December 1, 2003, a total of 153 cases of vCJD had been reported in the world: 143 from the United Kingdom, six from France, and one each from Canada, Ireland, Italy, and the United States (note: the U.S. case was reported in a patient who lived in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States)."
    
    "Almost all the 153 vCJD patients had multiple-year exposures in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996 during the occurrence of a large UK outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease) among cattle."
    
    "There has never been a case of vCJD that did not have a history of exposure within a country where this cattle disease, BSE, was occurring."
    
    "It is believed that the persons who have developed vCJD became infected through their consumption of cattle products contaminated with the agent of BSE. There is no known treatment of vCJD and it is invariably fatal." 12-03

15. Cows - Mad Cow Disease and New Variant CJD (Centers for Disease Control)
    Provides facts related to the spread, diagnosis, and prevention of new variant CJD. "Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rapidly progressive, invariably fatal neurodegenerative disorder believed to be caused by an abnormal isoform of a cellular glycoprotein known as the prion protein. CJD occurs worldwide and the estimated annual incidence in many countries, including the United States, has been reported to be about one case per million population."
    
    "The vast majority of CJD patients usually die within 1 year of illness onset. CJD is classified as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) along with other prion diseases that occur in humans and animals."
    
    "Physicians suspect a diagnosis of CJD on the basis of the typical signs and symptoms and progression of the disease. In most CJD patients, the presence of 14-3-3 protein in the cerebrospinal fluid and/or a typical electroencephalogram (EEG) pattern, both of which are believed to be diagnostic for CJD, have been reported. However, a confirmatory diagnosis of CJD requires neuropathologic and/or immunodiagnostic testing of brain tissue obtained either at biopsy or autopsy." 12-03

16. Cows - Mad Cow Disease Indepth News (CBC News)
    Provides news and facts related to the spread of Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). 12-03

17. Cows - Mad Cow Disease and Globalization (OrionOnline.org)
    "The recent foot-and-mouth and mad cow scares should serve as a wake-up call to the challenges of a borderless world." 1-04

18. Farm Animals

19. Animals Clipart (ClipsAhoy.com)
    Provides Bears, Birds, Bugs, Cats, Cows, Dogs, Donkeys and Mules, Elephants, Foxes, Fish and Water, Horses, Moose, Pets, Pigs, Rabbits, Reptiles, Rodents, and Sheep. 2-01

20. Mullah Omar Lived in Luxury (CNN - Amanpour)
    Describes the home of Mullah Omar, chief of the Taliban. Omar preached aceticism, for people to live simply and with very little. However, he not only had air conditioning and other luxuries for all of his home, he even had air conditioning for his cows. 12-01

21. -Vaccine to Reduce Methane Emissions (NewScientist.com)
    "You cannot stop a sheep belching or farting, but you can make sure its eructations are less damaging to the environment."
    
    "Belches and, to a far lesser degree, farts from sheep, cows and other farm animals account for around 20% of global methane emissions. The gas is a potent source of global warming because, volume for volume, it traps 23 times as much heat as the more plentiful carbon dioxide." 9-04

22. -03-12-06 "There's Nothing to Eat...We Have Nothing" (TimesOnline.com)
    "Fetching water is women’s work in this part of the world. But in parched northern Kenya — where a two-year drought is threatening to plunge the country into famine and change for ever an age-old pastoral way of life — fetching water means begging at the side of the road."
    
    " 'The cows are finished, the goats are finished. We have no work, nothing. Even the camels are finished which means there can be little chance for us. Our only hope is the road.' " 03-06

23. Study: Palin Hired Friends and Punished Foes (New York Times)
    "Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials."
    
    "So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency."
    
    "Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy. The governor and her top officials sometimes use personal e-mail accounts for state business; dozens of e-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records."
    
    "Ms. Palin discovered that the state Republican leader, Randy Ruedrich, a commission member, was conducting party business on state time and favoring regulated companies. When Mr. Murkowski failed to act on her complaints, she quit and went public."
    
    "In the middle of the primary, a conservative columnist in the state, Paul Jenkins, unearthed e-mail messages showing that Ms. Palin had conducted campaign business from the mayor’s office. Ms. Palin handled the crisis with a street fighter’s guile." 09-08

24. -12-12-08 New Bush Rule: No Need to Report Toxic Gas (CBS News)
    "The nation's farms no longer have to report to authorities the toxic, smelly fumes released from manure."
    
    Editor's Note: Methane is 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. An inexpensive vaccine is available to prevent methane in the stomachs of cows without hurting their digestion. 12-08

25. -Dietary Solutions to Methane from Cattle (Time.com)
    "Most dietary interventions work by checking methogens — microbes that thrive in oxygen-free environments such as cows' guts, where they convert the available hydrogen and carbon (byproducts of digestion) into methane, a colorless, odorless gas. 'We encourage well-to-do farmers to use oilseed cakes which provide unsaturated fatty acids that get rid of the hydrogen,' Dr. Singhal says. Another solution is herbal additives. Some commonly used Indian herbs such as shikakai and reetha, which go into making soap, and many kinds of oilseeds contain saponins and tannins, substances that make for lathery, bitter meals but block hydrogen availability for methogens. Dr Singhal says they are used in small quantities and the cows don't seem to mind the taste. 'Imagine how much potential they'd have in the international market,' he says." 04-09