All three Holsteins cows in Japan diagnosed with BSE were fed with a milk substitute from the same factory, the Gunma prefecture government revealed on Saturday. The ministry had hoped that because ...

Several international observers have slammed the action by the Japanese government in the face of the emergence of BSE in the country’s domestic herd. Donald Nordeng, president of Qai Japan, an ...

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MATSUZAKA (dpa) – Mikichi Kubo shoves a beer bottle into the mouth of his cow, and the farmer has to hold firmly on to it, because the animal is guzzling at it so strongly. The cow is drinking “Kirin ...

"Wagyu" is one of those buzzwords that you see everywhere when people talk about beef. It's prized, and for good reason, but a lot of us don't really understand exactly what makes wagyu, wagyu — or ...

What if the simplest way to stop flies from biting a cow was to make the cow look like a zebra? It sounds like the setup for a joke. Instead, Japanese researchers took the idea seriously enough to ...

TOKYO - A dairy cow has tested positive for mad cow disease in the Chiba area of Japan, near Tokyo, the agriculture ministry said today, signalling the first case reported in Asia. However, ministry ...