Senator Salazar fights to protect key food safety labs. The Food and Drug Administration lab in Denver is one of the most highly respected in the nation. Yet despite the Denver FDA lab's critical role in national security and the health of American livestock, the FDA has slated it for closure. [News Source]

Siege farmer’s crossbow rage ‘like mad cow disease’ (icWales) A MAN accused of setting fire to vehicles and threatening to kill police and council workers with a crossbow resembled “a beast with mad cow disease” a court was told yesterday. [News Source]