Britain Struggles With Questions Of Identity (NPR) A walk from London along the road to Canterbury reveals much about Britain's changing landscape. As immigration increases and the pillars of the old identity, such as empire and monarchy, have been eroded, many communities have withdrawn into a tribal loyalty, with the spotlight on Muslims. [News Source]

BSE reduction plan delayed. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will delay a plan introduced a year ago designed to reduce the risk of BSE, better known as mad cow disease, in cattle imported from Canada. [News Source]

Today’s Top Ag News — Rains In the Plains (AgWeb.com) Daily highlights [News Source]

Bad Blood (Strategy Page) April 13, 2009: During the peak of the fighting in Iraq (2004-7) so many casualties sometimes arrived at the same time that military hospitals ran out of screened (according to U.S. standards) blood. [News Source]

Large-animal vet shortage plagues ranches (Helena Independent Record) HARDIN (AP) It is finger-numbing cold outside in a cow shed east of nowhere. Farm veterinarian Betsy Bialon is donning a pair of cheap shoulder-length disposable gloves, which she clips with surgical clamps to a poncho made from a brown leaf bag. [News Source]