FDA extends deadline for animal disposal rule (Lexington Herald-Leader) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given farmers breathing room before enforcing a new rule t [News Source]

‘She spent the first five years alone’ (Guardian Unlimited) Elisabeth helped her father Josef fix the door on his new cellar – then her world went dark How it began It had seemed an innocent enough request: could she help him hoist a door into its frame? Elisabeth Fritzl followed her father down into the bowels of the cellar that he had been building for months in the garden beneath the family home. It was a hot day in August 1984, a month in which ... [News Source]

Never too late to start. Big Korean supermarkets are shamelessly selling cheap U.S. beef, and its sales continue to increase. Where did the 100,000 protesters go? [News Source]

U.S. lawmaker blasts China food safety. The United States has "serious issues" with food imports from China and needs to do more to prevent contaminated products from entering the U.S. food supply, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro told the Reuters Food and Agriculture Summit on Wednesday. [News Source]

Carcasses left to rot after cut to subsidy. Cattle carcasses are rotting on some Ontario farms after dead livestock collectors last month learned their hefty provincial subsidy was eliminated, leading some observers to worry the province is courting a public health crisis. [News Source]

It started at the stockyards: Banning downed cattle. On Saturday, Farm Sanctuary won a major battle in eliminating "downers" from the food supply when U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a final rule to amend federal meat inspection regulations. [News Source]

Corpse plan to feed hungry vultures (Channel 4) Spanish vultures are hungry, even starving - and the regional government in Madrid plans to do something about it. EU laws aimed at halting the spread of mad cow disease require the countryside to be kept clear of dead livestock even if they died of natural causes. [News Source]