Hamming it up: Flu frenzy spreading faster than the virus itself (Irish Examiner) FEELING flu-ish? Lie down, take a rest, drop two soluble aspirin in a hot Irish whiskey, and put your feet up. It may not cure you but you will certainly feel better – and it beats all this panic about what for most of us will be a case of the sniffles. Swine flu hysteria is spreading faster than the H1N1 virus itself. [News Source]

Robert Rodi: Mad Cow by Moonlight: Mucca Pazza Enchants Evanston (The Huffington Post) The role of the marching band used to be one of reassurance: crowds would watch them sail by in lockstep, a vision of supremely confident organization. But we don't much believe in that kind of world anymore. [News Source]

Vt.: Moose nursed by man doesn’t belong at farm (AP via Yahoo! News) For the last year, David Lawrence has cared for a young moose named Pete that he nursed back to health after it was attacked by dogs and separated from its mother. [News Source]

Vt.: Moose nursed by man doesn’t belong at farm (San Francisco Chronicle) For the last year, David Lawrence has cared for a young moose named Pete that he nursed back to health after it was attacked by dogs and separated from its mother. Now, Pete eats leaves out of Lawrence's hands and allows the 73-year-old farmer with the chest-... Sponsored Topics: David Lawrence - Moose - Farm - Biology - United States [News Source]

Vt.: Moose nursed by man doesn’t belong at farm (AP via Yahoo! News) For the last year, David Lawrence has cared for a young moose named Pete that he nursed back to health after it was attacked by dogs and separated from its mother. [News Source]

Ignore the FSA, It is still better to buy organic. What has the Food Standards Agency got against the organic sector to make it commission a review published this week into the nutritional benefits of organic versus conventional food? You cannot accuse organic food of being unsafe. [News Source]

It might taste better, but it’s no better for you. Supermarkets, so much maligned by food snobs, bring Canadians all we can eat - literally - at prices most of us can afford to pay. Only a few of us can afford organic produce and meat. But aren't we all lucky to have such choices open to us? [News Source]

USDA fires, reprimands Iowa laboratory workers (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Federal officials have fired some employees and reprimanded others at a central Iowa laboratory campus after allegations that veterinary credentials were used to purchase low-cost medications for themselves and relatives, a USDA spokeswoman said Thursday. [News Source]

Risk consultant: EU R&D hostage of ‘eco-religious fundamentalism’ (EurActiv) European companies are finding it increasingly difficult to covert research into innovation as politicians turn to the precautionary principle and Europeans reject science as a 'force of evil', argues David Zaruk, an environmental health risk consultant, in an interview with EurActiv. [News Source]

Species barrier may protect humans eating deer, elk from chronic wasting disease (New Kerala) Washington, July 31 : A study on monkeys suggests that people who consume deer and elk with chronic wasting disease (CWD) may be protected from infection by an inability of the infectious agent to spread to people. [News Source]