Wednesday’s Canadian Briefs (Syracuse.com) GIMLI, Manitoba (AP) — Manitoba Premier Gary Doer stepped up the rhetoric Wednesday in the battle to delay the implementation of a U.S. law that will require travelers to have a passport to enter the country. [News Source]

Doer says requiring a passport to enter U.S. will be ‘economic suicide’ (CP via Yahoo! Canada News) GIMLI, Man. (CP) - Manitoba Premier Gary Doer stepped up the rhetoric Wednesday in the battle to delay the implementation of a U.S. law that will require travellers to have a passport to enter the country. [News Source]

Doer: U.S. passport rules a strain on relations (Canada.com) Manitoba Premier Gary Doer. GIMLI, Man. - American rules that will require travellers to have a passport to enter the country will strain Canada-U.S. relations more than softwood lumber or the mad cow crisis ever did, Manitoba Premier Gary Doer said Wednesday. [News Source]

Doer: U.S. passport rules a strain on relations (Canada.com) Manitoba Premier Gary Doer. GIMLI, Man. - American rules that will require travellers to have a passport to enter the country will strain Canada-U.S. relations more than softwood lumber or the mad cow crisis ever did, Manitoba Premier Gary Doer said Wednesday. [News Source]

USDA weighs label for beef from cattle fed only grass. Farmers contend their product is a cut above feedlot animals in health and taste, but some experts doubt claims. [News Source]

‘Atypical’ strain of BSE found in U.S. cattle. The two cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy found in U.S. cattle over the past year came from a rare strain of BSE found largely in Europe that scientists are only beginning to identify. [News Source]

Efforts could help end beef ban. Kansas U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts said Tuesday that he's hopeful a new round of lobbying efforts will help convince Japanese officials to end their ban on U.S. beef being imported into their country. [News Source]

World Animal Health Body Changes Mad Cow Risk Definitions (Environment News Service) WASHINGTON, DC , May 31, 2006 (ENS) - Member countries of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) last week voted unanimously to revise the three definitions of risk categories for countries affected by mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). [News Source]

USDA weighs label for beef from cattle fed only grass (Chicago Tribune) Farmers contend their product is a cut above feedlot animals in health and taste; some experts doubt claims The image that schoolchildren conjure up when they imagine how animals live probably looks a little like Eric Rice's Country Pleasures Farm: a half-dozen steers on acres of hill pasture, gnawing lazily on orchard grass. [News Source]

USDA weighs label for beef from cattle fed only grass (Chicago Tribune) Farmers contend their product is a cut above feedlot animals in health and taste; some experts doubt claims The image that schoolchildren conjure up when they imagine how animals live probably looks a little like Eric Rice's Country Pleasures Farm: a half-dozen steers on acres of hill pasture, gnawing lazily on orchard grass. [News Source]