TOP U.S. FARM NEGOTIATOR URGES SOUTH KOREA TO IMPORT MORE BEEF (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance) Trade / foreign investment   The top U.S. agricultural negotiator urged South Korea to open its market to "all types of American beef" under a May ruling by the World Organization for Animal Health that states the U.S. can export the meat irrespective of mad cow disease, South Korean officials said Saturday. [News Source]

Top U.S. Farm Negotiator Urges South Korea To Import More Beef (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News) The top U.S. agricultural negotiator urged South Korea to open its market to "all types of American beef" under a May ruling by the World Organization for Animal Health that states the U.S. can export the meat irrespective of mad cow disease, South Korean officials said Saturday. [News Source]

TAIWAN FESTIVAL CELEBRATES LIFTING BAN ON CANADIAN BEEF IMPORTS (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance) Trade / foreign investment   A Canadian beef festival has opened in Taipei to officially celebrate the lifting of an import ban of more than four years on Canadian beef out of concern over mad cow disease. [News Source]

Taiwan Festival Celebrates Lifting Ban On Canadian Beef Imports (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News) A Canadian beef festival has opened in Taipei to officially celebrate the lifting of an import ban of more than four years on Canadian beef out of concern over mad cow disease. [News Source]

Scientists discover new causes for neurodegeneration (News-Medical-Net) Diseases that cause neurons to break-down, such as Alzheimer's, Multiple Sclerosis and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (Mad Cow Disease), continue to be elusive to scientists and resistant to treatments. [News Source]

Monday, October 29, 2007 (Deccan Herald) Many companies from all over the world sometime suffer from major product failures or product contaminations, which can be expressed as "Prodmares", short form of "Product nightmares." [News Source]

Warming revives flora and fauna in Greenland. A strange thing is happening at the edge of Poul Bjerge’s forest. Planted in 1893, they are having a second youth. [News Source]

Oklahoma — you are what you eat (Muskogee Phoenix) If I told you that you would learn from, and even enjoy reading a foundation’s Centennial Report, you might not believe me. However, that’s exactly what I’m telling you about “Closer to Home: Healthier Food, Farms & Families in Oklahoma,” produced by the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture. [News Source]