Mad Cow Theatre announces 2009-2010 season (Orlando Sentinel) The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee , Sept. 11-Oct. 18. Willian Finn-Rachel Sheinken musical. Stage Left. Love Song , Oct. 2-25. John Kolvenbach contemporary comedy. Stage Right. [News Source]

Scientists Say Farmed Fish May Carry ‘Mad Cow’ Illness (Fox News) Three U.S. scientists are concern about the potential of people contracting Creutzfeldt Jakob disease the human form of "mad cow disease" from eating farmed fish who are fed byproducts rendered from cows. [News Source]

Can we ‘milk’ oil from algae? (Toronto Star) Imagine a dairy cow so small that you cannot see it. Now imagine when you milk the cow you get oil, not that white stuff we drink. Now imagine there are trillions of these oil-secreting cows and they replicate every 24 hours or less. [News Source]

15°C - Rather cloudy with only a few bright intervals (Daily Record) A SCOTS OAP has become the second person in the UK to die of swine flu. [News Source]

Summer camp could be new swine flu breeding ground (The Herald) The spread of swine flu may slow down during the summer now that schools have broken up for the holidays, providing less opportunity for person-to-person transmission, according to an expert. [News Source]

Rebellion on the Range Over a Cattle ID Plan (CommonDreams.org) by Erik Eckholm HORSE SPRINGS, N.M. - Wranglers at the Platt ranch were marking calves the old-fashioned way last week, roping them from horseback and burning a brand onto their haunches. read more [News Source]

Rebellion on the range over a cattle ID plan. Federally recommended microchips for livestock that are intended to speed the tracing of animal diseases have caused an uproar among ranchers. [News Source]

Get involved… (Sunday Mail) ANIMAL rights campaigners have sparked outrage by erecting a crass billboard outside a hospital where the UK's first swine flu fatality was treated. [News Source]

Rebellion on the Range Over a Cattle ID Plan (New York Times) Federally recommended microchips for livestock that are intended to speed the tracing of animal diseases have caused an uproar among ranchers. [News Source]

Mad Cow And Related Diseases: Copper Linked To Normal Functioning Of Prions (Science Daily) Researchers have discovered a link between copper and the normal functioning of prion proteins, which are associated with transmissible spongiform encephalopathy diseases such as Cruetzfeldt-Jakob in humans or "mad cow" disease in cattle. Their work could have implications for patients suffering from these diseases, as well as from other prion-related diseases such as Alzheimers or Parkinson's. [News Source]