Amish farmers in a stir over cattle. The insular, Old World ways of the Amish are clashing with the technology-driven New World desire to track the movement of livestock in hopes of assuring the safety of the food supply from mad cow disease, pseudorabies, tuberculosis and other maladies. [News Source]

Where’s the beef? Have conglomerates ruined supermarket food? [News Source]

The climate change unbelievers. Global warming is happening and we're to blame, right? Not according to a die-hard band of naysayers that continue to rail against the consensus. [News Source]

Panthers hand out 15,000 cowbells at home opener (Miami Herald) Magdalena Curbelo could barely contain her son, Matteo's, excitement Saturday night at BankAtlantic Center. Wearing his Panthers jersey and ringing his cowbell, Matteo ran back and forth, eager to get to his seat. At 2-years-old, Curbelo's son is part of the team's passionate fan base. [News Source]

FDA to review genetically engineered farm animals (AG Weekly) WASHINGTON - Super Chicken strutted a step closer to the dinner table Thursday. [News Source]

South Korea links Web slander to celebrity suicides (International Herald Tribune) The suicide of Choi Jin Sil, the "national actress," has led the authorities to attack Internet rumor-mongering. [News Source]

Amish farmers in a stir over cattle (Detroit Free Press) BLANCHARD, Mich. -- It's not like Glen Mast to be confrontational or to draw attention to himself. He is Old Order Amish and is happy to tend his 35-acre farm, build furniture for his children and repair horse-drawn buggies for the Amish in his rural Isabella County community. "I just want to be left alone," Mast said. [News Source]

Tracking down the cause of Mad Cow disease - first synthetic prion protein with an anchor (News-Medical-Net) The cause of diseases such as BSE in cattle and Creutzfeld-Jakob disease in humans is a prion protein. This protein attaches to cell membranes by way of an anchor made of sugar and lipid components (a glycosylphosphatidylinositol, GPI) anchor. The anchoring of the prions seems to have a strong influence on the transformation of the normal form of the protein into its pathogenic form, which ... [News Source]

Martin’s ‘Underpants’ too stretchy, lacks snap (Baltimore Sun) Parental Advisory: The set's turrets and towers are reminiscent of a fairy tale. The theme music will set many members of the audience to humming a beloved nursery rhyme. And the title seems tailor-made to titillate the curiosity of 6-year-olds. [News Source]