Russia agrees to accept more Canadian beef (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Canada will begin exporting more beef to Russia as it slowly recovers markets it lost with the discovery of mad cow disease on a Canadian farm in 2003. [News Source]

Organic food is not a mug’s game, despite the Swaddles scandal. Few believe that organic is the only, or complete, solution: most share a belief that our food and farming needs to change and that in most instances organic offers a better alternative. [News Source]

Risky parts turn up in U.S. beef shipment. Health ministry officials were trying over the weekend to locate hundreds of boxes of U.S. beef from Nebraska following the discovery of bovine spinal columns in a recent shipment. [News Source]

Japan suspends beef imports from US plant. Japan suspended beef shipments from an American meatpacker Saturday over its failure to remove cattle parts banned under a bilateral agreement, as officials here raised concerns about U.S. safeguards against mad cow disease. [News Source]

Japan suspends beef imports from US plant. Japan suspended beef shipments from an American meatpacker Saturday over its failure to remove cattle parts banned under a bilateral agreement, as officials here raised concerns about U.S. safeguards against mad cow disease. [News Source]

Ex-stewardess sues Oprah for ‘mile high club’ sacking (The Malaysian Insider) LOS ANGELES, Oct 13 — Oprah Winfrey has had pretty good luck in litigation during her career. Back in 1998 she won a Texas defamation case brought by cattlemen who weren’t thrilled when she said she’d sworn off burgers on a show about mad cow disease. This year she beat back a trillion-dollar lawsuit by a poet who claimed copyright infringement, and she recently filed an aggressive suit against ... [News Source]