Internet Patrol: Embryo Scheme, Ethanol Pinch, Mad Cow Lawsuit (CattleNetwork.com) Northeast Kansas veterinarian who promised investors large returns in a cattle embryo sales business was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for securities fraud. [News Source]

Ontario court upholds cattle farmers lawsuit (Toronto Star) The Ontario Court of Appeal has cleared the way for a proposed class action lawsuit filed on behalf of 100,000 cattle farmers hit with financial losses when the border closed in 2003 over fears about mad cow disease. [News Source]

Ottawa loses yet another legal battle against mad cow class-action lawsuit (CP via Yahoo! Canada News) TORONTO (CP) - The federal government has lost yet another legal battle against a class-action lawsuit that accuses it of gross negligence in the mad cow crisis. [News Source]

Japan Mulls Talks With US on Beef Rules (AP via Yahoo! Finance) The Japanese government is mulling a U.S. request to discuss restrictions Tokyo has imposed on beef imports to control the spread of mad cow disease, an Agriculture Ministry official said Friday. [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]