Order Photo Reprints Online (Jackson Hole News) A moose in Star Valley tested positive for chronic wasting disease this week, marking the first time the disease has crossed the Continental Divide into northwest Wyoming. [News Source]

Cattle Outlook: Positive COF Report, Beef Demand Continues To Weaken (CattleNetwork.com) In August, for the first time in my memory, beef exports were larger than imports with the exception of 2003 when Canadian beef was embargoed because of mad cow disease before the cow with mad cow disease was found in Washington state. [News Source]

The Carnivore?s Dilemma (New York Times) Two books ask whether there is an ethical and environmentally friendly way for Americans to maintain their love affair with beef. [News Source]

Not All Vets Treat Pets — For Some It’s About Homeland Security (Carteret County News-Times) (ARA) - Anthrax. Biological attacks. Exotic diseases. These and many other issues are making headlines as the world we live in seems to get smaller and smaller. Yet there is a dedicated group of scientists who are confronting these, and many other, threats each and every day. [News Source]

Jolley: Five Minutes With Glenn Brand, President, Canada’s Beef Information Centre (CattleNetwork.com) You know those “interesting times” that are part of that old Chinese proverb/curse? Well, Glenn Brand lives in them. He watched in disbelief as the U.S., Canada’s largest and most valued trading partner, spent years staggering toward mCOOL. [News Source]

FSA Supports Move To Increase The Age At Which UK Cattle Are BSE Tested From 30 To 48 Months (Medical News Today) The Food Standards Agency (FSA) Board today agreed to support a move to increase the age at which UK cattle are BSE tested from 30 months to 48 months, subject to a review of current and continued BSE surveillance. [News Source]

Nelson Urges Administration To Ratchet Up Efforts To Open Markets To U.S. Beef (Yankton Press & Dakotan) Nebraska’s Sen. Ben Nelson today called on the Administration to ratchet up its efforts to re-open important foreign markets for U.S. beef in light of a new report from the International Trade Commission (ITC). The report shows that U.S. beef producers lost nearly $11 billion between 2004 and 2007 due to barriers on U.S. beef exports not warranted under the World Animal Health Organization (OIE) ... [News Source]