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...that ate from the same troughs could be sick, too. According to research by New York biologist Michael Hansen, it takes less than a milligram of infected material to contract the disease. "This is a critical example of our failure to have an animal ID system," warns Jean Halloran, director of food safety at the Consumer' s Union. "We were moving toward this sytem but the USDA backed off." In 2004 the USDA proposed a mandatory national animal tagging and tracking system that would make tracing the origins and whereabouts of any cow easy, but the effort has foundered...
...scale down its mad cow testing program. "The incidence of BSE [Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathyin] this country remains extremely low and our interlocking safeguards are working to protect both human and animal health, and we remain very confident in the safety of U.S. beef," said Clifford. But Consumer Union's Halloran says increased testing is needed and describes the USDA policy as "don't look, don't find." Currently, the U.S. tests about 1% of its cattle for mad cow disease. Japan tests nearly 100% and the European Union tests all cattle over 30 months...
...first and only show to eschew a national tour and put all its money on Vegas, musicals like Spamalot and Hairspray are excluding or limiting play in competing markets, such as Nevada, California and Arizona. The Vegas focus "has been an awakening for the industry," says Pat Halloran, president of the Independent Presenters Network, a group of 55 theater owners, operators and presenters...
...Halloran's group put up $1 million toward Spamalot's Las Vegas run, but part of the deal is that the show will tour elsewhere. "After Avenue Q, we all became a little smarter," Halloran explains. In the best of all worlds, a hot Las Vegas run spills over into good buzz for touring shows. The Abba tribute Mamma Mia!, for example, rakes in the "Money, money, money" and has tripled its investment in three years. Its success feeds audiences elsewhere...
...Aurora, Neb. The soybeans, from a plant used in everything from baby food and margarine to ice cream, were inadvertently mixed in a silo with corn that was genetically engineered by a Texas firm, ProdiGene Inc., to produce a vaccine against pig diarrhea. "Drugs have side effects," says Jean Halloran of the Consumers Union. "They should not turn up in our cornflakes...