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An article by Consumer Reports this week shows again, how complex scientific information can be misrepresented in order to influence the reader’s beliefs about the meat industry.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved a kill permit for a wolf pack responsible for killing at least four calves this summer.

In the seedstock business, the bar is higher than in a commercial herd. Registered breeders need more from their cows than just an acceptable calf.

A sting operation in Oklahoma has resulted in the arrest of two cattle thieves.

An expansion to a Texas Panhandle packing plant will add 800 more head per day in slaughter capacity, primarily for cull cow and bull processing.

The Togo wolf pack has attacked five cattle in the past 10 months, which meets the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s lethal removal policy threshold but there are no current plans to euthanize the wolves.

A wolf pack that has killed cattle in Washington has been approved to be handled with lethal action by wildlife officials.

A wolf pack in Washington that has preyed on cattle six times in the past 10 months and three times in 30 days will not be euthanized in the near future after activists groups filed a lawsuit.

A rancher in Washington is currently under investigation by wildlife officials after he shot at a wolf in self-defense while checking his cattle.

The cattle herd in Canada fell by 100,000 head with beef cows seeing the largest drop in herd numbers.