Whole Foods Hits the Land of Mushy Peas (Time Magazine) Can the U.S. healthy-eating supermarket giant conquer Britain? Only if it can help transform the British palate [News Source]

Humane Society of US again scaring people away from good diets? (AG Weekly) The Humane Society of the U.S. has, for years, been trying to frighten people away from consuming meat, milk and eggs -- but its recent testimony before a congressional committee reached a new low when the HSUS president, Wayne Pacelle, made the unsupported claim that pigs could be harboring the infamous and deadly British ‘mad cow” disease. [News Source]

Japan still dragging heels on U.S. beef. Japan is giving off all the signs it will ease restrictions on U.S. beef imports but the floundering popularity of the government means it could take months before any changes are made. [News Source]

Organic food helps revive fortunes of Europe’s farmers. The organic revolution is sweeping across Europe, with the area of land dedicated to environmentally-friendly, pesticide-free food production more than doubling in the last decade. [News Source]

Don’t worry so much about scary diseases (CNN.com) What's scarier than mad cow disease? Nothing, really -- except illnesses that are 10 billion times more likely to hurt you. Think about it this way: Your risk of getting mad cow is much lower than your odds of winning the Powerball lottery. In short, it's not likely to happen. What could happen? In her lifetime, the average woman has a 1 in 2 chance of developing osteoporosis and a 1 in 3 chance ... [News Source]

There’s No Sign Of Fatal Disease In Maryland Deer (CBS 13 Baltimore) There's still no sign in Maryland's deer population of a fatal disease similar to mad cow disease. [News Source]

Starving vultures switch to live prey (New Scientist) European laws brought in to control mad cow disease are leaving vultures without carcasses to feed on – the scavengers are now attacking living animals in Spain [News Source]

U.S. meat packing sites found free of mad cow (Toronto Star) Japan said it will no longer check every American beef shipment after finding no safety problems at dozens of U.S. meat-packing facilities it inspected last month. [News Source]

U.S. meatpacking facilities pass Japanese inspection (Houston Chronicle) Japan will no longer check every American beef shipment after finding no safety problems at dozens of U.S. meatpacking facilities it inspected last month, the government said Wednesday. The two countries are expected to hold talks aimed at easing restrictions on U.S. beef imports as early as this month, news reports said. [News Source]