Food-labeling effort has new momentum. Shoppers are in the dark about where much of their food comes from despite a five-year-old law requiring meat and other products to carry labels with their country of origin. That soon may change. [News Source]

In role reversal, China blocks some U.S. meat. China announced that it was blocking imports of some U.S. processed meat that showed signs of contamination, turning the tables on critics who in recent months have questioned the safety of Chinese exports. [News Source]

U.S. beef for sale in South Korea after ban lifted (Scottsbluff Star-Herald) SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - U.S. beef was being sold in South Korean stores Friday for the first time since a ban triggered by mad cow disease fears was lifted, but protesters prompted some shops to pull the meat from shelves after scuffles with police. [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]