Livestock premise ID program lacks support, says state senator (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier) MATTOON — The chairman of the Illinois Senate agriculture committee said Monday he opposes the Illinois Department of Agriculture’s handling of a plan to implement a livestock premise identification program. [News Source]

More News (Whittier Daily News) Check the markets Look up quotes. Build your portfolio. The largest meat recall in U.S. history, stemming from a video of what appears to be animal abuse at a Chino beef slaughterhouse, was enough to turn one Chino Hills family vegetarian for the foreseeable future. [News Source]

Texas Ag Commissioner blocks Canadian beef exports through Texas (Valley Morning Star) Mexico and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are negotiating a trade agreement that could pave the way for the export of U.S. breeding stock, according to the Texas Department of Agriculture. [News Source]

Lessons learned from largest U.S. meat recall (AG Weekly) Not since Upton Sinclair’s 1906 book “The Jungle” has the American meat market been this shaken. [News Source]

Maybe ketchup will kill the germs. The federal government has fed American schoolchildren at least 20 million pounds of hamburger that might have carried disease. [News Source]

Meat recall- beef it up. The recall by the U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier this month of 143million pounds of meat processed by a California packing plant has given this country's beef industry a black eye it can ill afford. [News Source]

Ignorance blinds us to the real risks in our food, study claims. An investigation by the Food Standards Agency which compared the risks perceived by the public with the scientific evidence behind them concluded that there was often no link between the two. [News Source]

U.S. could approve Korean trade deal by summer: envoy. Congress could ratify an ambitious free trade deal with South Korea in the next few months, provided a simmering dispute over beef imports is settled, the U.S. ambassador to South Korea said on Monday. [News Source]

How heparin maker in China tackles risks. The recent problems with heparin from China highlight the difficulty of monitoring the often diffuse and poorly regulated supply chains there--for both the drug makers and the multinational pharmaceutical companies. [News Source]

The global marketplace and middle school kids (Williston Herald) I have the privilege and challenge of bringing the Junior Achievement curriculum called Global Marketplace to 8th Graders at Williston Middle School. They have learned that unbeknownst to them, they are already heavily participating in the global marketplace. [News Source]