Cooks Stewed Over YouTube Beef Bowl Gag (AP via Yahoo! Finance) How many scoops of stewed beef can you pile onto a bowl of rice? Two video-savvy cooks who tried to find out could find themselves out of jobs after the Japanese beef bowl chain Yoshinoya D&C Co. suspended them for posting a clip of their experiment on YouTube. [News Source]

Minn. Probing Pork Plant Illnesses (AP via Yahoo! Finance) State health officials said Monday they were investigating neurological illnesses among 11 workers at a pork processing plant, but that there was no evidence that the public was at risk. [News Source]

Farmers face deadline on federal ID program (The Enterprise) MIDDLEBORO— Farmers have until Dec. 14 to decide if they will participate in a federal database designed to keep a lid on animal diseases. But some local farmers, such as Ron Maribett of Plympton, have been adamantly opposed to the National Animal Identification System from its inception. [News Source]

p0236 BC-ODD-Japan-BigBeefBow 12-04 0299 (Hays Daily News) TOKYO (AP) -- How many scoops of stewed beef can you pile onto a bowl of rice? Two video-savvy cooks who tried to find out could find themselves out of jobs after the Japanese beef bowl chain Yoshinoya D them for posting a clip of their experiment on YouTube. [News Source]

Cooks in the Stew for YouTube Posting (The Daily Comet) TOKYO How many scoops of stewed beef can you pile onto a bowl of rice? Two video-savvy cooks who tried to find out could find themselves out of jobs after the Japanese beef bowl chain Yoshinoya D&C Co. suspended them for posting a clip of their experiment on YouTube. [News Source]

2 cooks in the stew for YouTube posting (AP via Yahoo! News) How many scoops of stewed beef can you pile onto a bowl of rice? [News Source]

Cooks in the stew for YouTube posting (AP via Yahoo! News) How many scoops of stewed beef can you pile onto a bowl of rice? [News Source]

Bush appointee finds good and bad in farm bill (Casper Star-Tribune) A Bush appointee to the U.S. Department of Agriculture finds good and bad aspects in the House and Senate versions of a Farm Bill now stalled in the Senate. [News Source]

Meeting on bird flu held in Indian capital (People’s Daily) A three-day inter-ministerial meeting on avian influenza or bird flu is taking place in capital New Delhi, local TV channel NDTV reported Tuesday. The meeting is being attended by nearly 100 countries. This meeting is an att ... [News Source]