The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed Tuesday the country's sixth case of mad cow disease and said it will investigate where the cow was born and what other animals may have eaten the same feed.

It is believed cows contract mad cow disease when they eat feed contaminated by the tissue of other cattle. Humans can get a related disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, from eating meat contaminated with mad cow. Over 150 people infected with Creutzfeltd-Jakob worldwide have died from the disease

South African authorities confirm the detection of the bird flu in an ostrich farm.

Health officials say animals at the farm contracted a benign strain of the avian flu only two years after an outbreak swept across the country and prompted a ban on imports to the European Union

A research by scientists at Fu Jen University in Taipei, Taiwan, has shown that marinating meats may help reduce unhealthy cholesterol compounds that form during cooking. Cholesterol Oxidation Products, which are generated when cholesterol-rich foods are processed or heated in excess, have damaging effect on body cells leading to ills such as heart disease or cancer.

Researchers found that marinades made with soy sauce or sugar inhibited the formation of COPs in pork and eggs as they cooked

For the health conscious, meat may truly be a four-letter word, but a food innovation company says it's developed technology to make meatless burgers.

Solae LLC officials say they have developed a technology called SoleCina that can produce meat that mimics the taste of beef and chicken. The process converts a blend of vegetable and meat protein into a meat substitute or a "hybrid" The technology can produce a part-soy, part real meat, "hybrid", or a completely meatless alternative that tastes like chicken, pork or turkey

St. Louis-based Solae LLC has come up with a new discovery called Sole Cina, that includes the ingredients and the methodology to manufactur hybrid meat. Hybrid meat is part soy and part meat or a process to make meatless products taste just like chicken, beef, pork or turkey.

The company says both versions taste the same as real meat but they are healthier. For instance, a hybrid burger would contain only two-thirds the calories and half the saturated fat as well as fat that would be found in a meat burger