South Korea trade deal needs more work: Obama (Reuters via Yahoo! News) President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that auto, beef and other trade issues with South Korea must be resolved before he will ask Congress to vote on a two-year-old free trade agreement with the longtime ally. [News Source]

Farmed Fish Could Pose Risk For Mad Cow Disease (redOrbit) University of Louisville neurologist Robert P. [News Source]

Farmed fish may pose risk for mad cow disease (PhysOrg) University of Louisville neurologist Robert P. Friedland, M.D., questions the safety of eating farmed fish in the June issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, adding a new worry to concerns about the nation's food supply. [News Source]

Farmed fish may pose risk for mad cow disease (EurekAlert!) ( IOS Press ) University of Louisville neurologist Robert P. Friedland, M.D., questions the safety of eating farmed fish in today's Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, adding a new worry to concerns about the nation's food supply. [News Source]

Farmed Fish May Pose Risk For Mad Cow Disease (Science Daily) Neurologists questions the safety of eating farmed fish, adding a new worry to concerns about the nation’s food supply. They suggest farmed fish could transmit Creutzfeldt Jakob disease -- commonly known as mad cow disease -- if they are fed byproducts rendered from cows. [News Source]

Farmed fish and mad cow disease – researchers air new concerns (News-Medical-Net) University of Louisville neurologist Robert P. Friedland, M.D., questions the safety of eating farmed fish in the June issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, adding a new worry to concerns about the nation's food supply. [News Source]

The Almanac — weekly (redOrbit) Today is Monday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2009 with 192 to follow. The moon is new. The morning stars are Neptune, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Uranus. The evening star is Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. [News Source]

Carrots are the new caviar (Financial Times) Buried deep in the website of El Bulli, Ferran Adrià’s legendary restaurant in Spain, is a revolutionary declaration: “All products have the same gastronomic value, regardless of their price.” [News Source]

COMMENTARY: Livestock Producers Have Major Stake In Direction Of Commodity Programs (Yankton Press & Dakotan) With all of the challenges faced by the livestock sector over the last several years — bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease), export bans, E. coli and other food borne diseases, uncertainty over the implementation of animal identification and country of origin labeling — the last thing they needed was a 250 percent increase in the cost of the grains and oilseeds they use as ... [News Source]