Epidemic of vCJD in UK highly unlikely (The Herald) There will be no epidemic of the human form of mad cow disease in Britain, despite fears that the worst is yet to come, an expert said yesterday. [News Source]

Theater Review: Mad Cow chronicles Heidi — and a generation (Orlando Sentinel) [News Source]

Japan to resist U.S. pressure on beef: Farm Min (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Japan will resist pressure to relax import rules on beef from the United States, one of the nation's top suppliers of the meat before a ban several years ago, the new farm minister said on Wednesday. [News Source]

Some Say Johanns Abandoned Farm Legislation (Washington Post) The Department of Agriculture is rarely in the headlines these days, but when Secretary Mike Johanns stepped down last week, he listed a range of projects that span the agency's broad reach, from preparing for an outbreak of a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza to developing an online fa... [News Source]