EU Urged To Keep Animal Protein Out Of Cattle Feed (Planet Ark) BRUSSELS - Europe must keep its ban on mixing animal protein into cattle feed to avoid more cases of mad cow disease even though far more is now known about the disease, the EU's top food safety agency said. [News Source]

South Korea opposition boycotts legislature. South Korea's president canceled his traditional speech Thursday before the new National Assembly, as an opposition boycott over a widely unpopular U.S. beef import agreement brought the legislature to a standstill. [News Source]

South Korea opposition to boycott legislature. South Korea's opposition parties agreed Wednesday to boycott the new legislature to pressure embattled President Lee Myung-bak to renegotiate a much-criticized beef import deal with the United States. [News Source]

About 100,000 S. Koreans turn to court to nullify beef pact. If street rallies can't resolve fears of mad cow disease, legal ones may, say the more than 100,000 South Koreans who flocked this week to sign a petition calling on the Constitutional Court to strike down a recent agreement between Seoul and Washington to resume U.S. beef imports. [News Source]

S. Korea to ban U.S. beef because of mad cow risk. President Lee Myung-bak suggested Tuesday that South Korea will seek to ban imports of U.S. beef from older cattle amid a public backlash against his government over fears of mad cow disease. [News Source]

Political price paid in beef row. What started as a series of relatively small-scale candlelit vigils against a lifting of the five-year ban on American beef imports, has now taken on the air of a mass movement. [News Source]

News & Star (The News and Star) The next play to open in the Theatre by the Lake’s summer season, Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van, tells the story of Miss Shepherd (“a bigoted, blinkered, cantankerous, devious, unforgiving, self-centred, rank, rude, car-mad cow”) who in 1974 drove her clapped-out Bedford into the playwright’s garden and stayed there till she died 15 years later. [News Source]

Beef decision no surprise for commissioner (The Bismarck Tribune) North Dakota's agriculture commissioner says he is not surprised South Korea is holding off on allowing U.S. beef into that country after protests by people worried about mad cow disease. [News Source]