The real menace to American kids (Salon.com) We demonize Mark Foley but ignore the industries medicating children and making them fat, and even open our schools to people trying to kill them -- military recruiters. [News Source]

‘It’s time to get out of here’. The Radkes have lost about 35 cows since last fall and are down to a dairy herd of 100. Jim Radke thinks a combination of environmental causes, including the air pollution, is killing his cows. [News Source]

Disease agent appears in meat. Hunters in areas with chronic wasting disease should take extra precautions, as the disease has been found in the heart muscle of some infected animals, as well as the brain, experts said Thursday. [News Source]

Chronic wasting disease found in animals. Researchers in Wyoming have found chronic wasting disease in the heart muscle tissue of infected white-tailed deer and elk, the University of Wyoming has announced. [News Source]