The National Online (The National) PRICES of fresh fish are going up with consumers shying away from fresh meat as a result of threats from mad cow and bird flu diseases that are now affecting other countries. [News Source]

Mad cow lawsuit can proceed in Quebec: judge (Reuters via Yahoo! News) A judge in the province of Quebec has ruled that cattle farmers hurt by the 2003 discovery of mad cow disease in Canada can go ahead with a class action lawsuit against the federal government, lawyers for the farmers said. [News Source]

Quebec Farmers’ Win Right to Sue Government Over Mad Cow Crisis (Bloomberg.com) June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Quebec cattle farmers won the right to sue the Canadian federal government in a class action seeking compensation for losses linked to discovery of mad-cow cases in 2003. [News Source]

Indonesia approves Canadian beef imports. Indonesia has approved the import of beef products from five Canadian slaughterhouses after the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) put Canada under "controlled-risk" status for mad cow disease, an official said on Monday. [News Source]

Quebec court OK’s mad cow lawsuit against federal government. A Quebec Superior Court ruling has given the go-ahead to a multibillion-dollar class-action lawsuit that charges the federal government jeopardized public safety in its handling of the mad cow outbreak. [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]

Indonesia approves Canadian beef imports (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Indonesia has approved the import of beef products from five Canadian slaughterhouses after the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) put Canada under "controlled-risk" status for mad cow disease, an official said on Monday. [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]