More Americans clean their plates of ‘bad’ food. Faster than you can say, "Hold the mayo," food has become America's great obsession. And it's changing the way restaurants operate, with even Denny's announcing plans this week to nix trans fats. [News Source]

Plan for tracking animals meets farmers’ resistance. A federal effort to pinpoint and contain outbreaks of disease among livestock is coming under attack in Internet chat rooms and on ranches across the nation. [News Source]

Blood risk of vCJD highlighted (New Scientist) The tragedy of mad cow disease may not yet be over - a third person in the UK has died from vCJD after a blood transfusion [News Source]

UK pigeons spread AIDS, malaria and mad cow disease (The Register) Kingston moves to contain flying rat menace The council of Kingston in Surrey is to carry out a "humane cull" of pigeons in the town's Memorial Gardens, the Surrey Comet reports.… [News Source]

UK pigeons spread AIDS, malaria and mad cow disease (theRegister via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) The council of Kingston in Surrey is to carry out a "humane cull" of pigeons in the town's Memorial Gardens, the Surrey Comet reports. The cull will be ... [News Source]

Canadian cattle industry recovering from BSE (Agriculture Online) WINNIPEG (Dow Jones) -- Huge strides have been made in terms of price recovery for Canadian cattle producers 3 1/2 years after the discovery of mad-cow disease in Canada, but there is room for more improvement, industry sources say. [News Source]