House approves $82.8 billion for nutrition programs (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The U.S. House approved $82.8 billion for federal nutrition programs ranging from food stamps to school lunch on Wednesday, including a plan to compensate poor families for lunches missed during flu epidemics. [News Source]

donga.com[English donga] (donga.com) The Board of Audit and Inspection investigated 543 private organizations that received financial government support of more than 80 million won (68,300 U.S. dollars) per year from 2006 to last year. The majority of them were found to have embezzled money. [News Source]

Canada seeks WTO panel in U.S. meat labeling dispute (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Canada is asking the World Trade Organization to resolve a dispute with Washington over a country-of-origin labeling law that Ottawa says has slashed livestock exports to the United States. [News Source]

Regulators Weigh in on Organic Content (Beverage World) The latest battle in the United States over what can be called organic involves beer and gelatin, food colorings and casings for sausage. [News Source]

Geek Love: Flesh Eating Undead serves as backdrop to sappy love story in Zombieland (The Source Weekly) The first five minutes of Zombieland depict some of the best chewing, spewing and gore-guzzling zombies ever seen on film amidst side-splitting comedy. Unfortunately, what follows does not live up to the film’s early promise. It’s as if the grand finale starts the show. This is not a Zombie movie to rival Shaun of the Dead. Mostly, it’s a poorly directed love story with interspe ... [News Source]

McLaughlin Research Institute gets federal grant (ABC Montana) GREAT FALLS - A federal stimulus grant is going to the McLaughlin Research Institute in Great Falls to help cover the costs of research into the cells that cause brain wasting diseases. [News Source]

McLaughlin Institute gets $137,000 research boost (Great Falls Tribune) As part of the fedearal economic stimulus program, McLaughlin Research Institute Director George Carlson will get a $137,000 boost to his ongoing research on the prion cells that cause incurable brain disease. [News Source]

Study reveals large structural differences between natural prions and man-made synthetic analogs (News-Medical-Net) A collaboration between scientists at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Francisco has led to the first direct information about the molecular structure of prions. In addition, the study has revealed surprisingly large structural differences between natural prions and the closest synthetic analogs that scientists have created in the lab. [News Source]

Man on trial in deer-trafficking case (The Columbus Dispatch) An Ohio man's belief in the truthfulness of others landed him in federal court, accused of illegally trafficking in live deer, his attorney told a jury yesterday. [News Source]

Man on trial in deer-trafficking case (The Columbus Dispatch) An Ohio man's belief in the truthfulness of others landed him in federal court, accused of illegally trafficking in live deer, his attorney told a jury today. [News Source]