US rancher criticizes Canadian beef. A U.S. cattle rancher Monday blamed Canadian and British beef for a ban on beef produced by her country and expressed uneasiness. [News Source]

Risk is low that gelatin carries mad cow disease. The consensus seems to be that gelatin carries a very low risk of potential disease transmission to humans, and there have been no reports of such cases. [News Source]

ID plan aims to track animals. A new national system, designed to prevent the spread of diseases such as avian flu and mad cow disease, aims to track every livestock animal in the nation -- be it a cow on a feed lot, a farm-raised trout or a backyard goat. [News Source]

The great asbestos scam. The great asbestos bankruptcy scam is beginning to unravel. For 30 years, judges have sat by as the tort bar flooded courts with phony suits, dragging some 75 companies into Chapter 11. [News Source]