Third US human case of mad cow disease (About.com) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified a Saudi-born man living in Virginia as the third human case of mad cow disease (variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) in... [News Source]

Cloned hamburger meat still seen a long way off (Reuters via Yahoo! News) It may be years before consumers will be buying fast-food hamburgers or grilling T-bone steaks made from cloned cattle because the cloning process is too expensive and currently is not commercially viable, two livestock economists said on Thursday. [News Source]

The Prairie Star (Prairie Star) After a recent announcement by Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns, participation in an animal identification system is a choice entirely up to individual livestock producers in all but a handful of states. [News Source]

£1,500 penalty for BSE breach. A Wasdale farmer has fallen foul of the tighter regulations over mad cow disease. [News Source]

UKIP in Romania 21/12/06 (BBC News) BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell shadows the leader of the UK Independence Party on a trip to Romania. [News Source]

Premise registration continues on plan (Iowa Farmer) Editor’s note: On Nov.. 22, the Bush administration pledged not to make a planned National Animal Identification System mandatory. However, that has not derailed movement toward a voluntary tracking system. [News Source]

Interview: Italy’s Antiquities Prosecutor Fiorilli (Scoop.co.nz) Italy's Antiquities Prosecutor Maurizio Fiorilli On The Getty Et Al. [News Source]