Credit squeeze gives lenders indigestion (Daily Telegraph) Deals worth $75bn have to work through the US system and Europe may have hidden problems, writes Philip Aldrick. [News Source]

Killing Us Softly (Valley Advocate) Our government is trying to kill us, one by one. That’s the only way I can figure it. Maybe this is because they know they can’t afford to keep all 300 million of us around until we get old because they’ve pissed away our Social Security nest-egg. [News Source]

The real price of the £2 chicken. With its pasty flesh, tightly sealed under cellophane wrapping, the chicken sitting on a blue polystyrene tray on the shelf at Asda really doesn't look like much of an 'icon'. [News Source]

Kenya: The Strangest Animal Farm (AllAfrica.com) For lack of a more adverse adjectival tag, Boniface Ndura's soft spot for deformed domestic animals can best be described as 'peculiar.' [News Source]

Worries are preying on one’s mind (Los Angeles Times) I worry a lot. I worry about the world, the nation, L.A. and eating fish imported from China. No one worries more than I do about whatever there is to worry about. And that worries me. [News Source]

Market for milk udderly amazing (Denver Post) China's growing taste for once-unfamiliar dairy foods is one reason for the record-high prices. It's cheaper than oil and, barring a global mad cow crisis, we'll probably never run out of it. [News Source]

Rockland A.M. report (The Journal News) - A Chestnut Ridge man was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, on Thursday when police officers saw him swerving in and out of his lane just after 11 p.m., officials said. [News Source]

Premise registration continues on plan (Iowa Farmer) Editor’s note: On Nov.. 22, the Bush administration pledged not to make a planned National Animal Identification System mandatory. However, that has not derailed movement toward a voluntary tracking system. [News Source]