Fish Feed Sources Examined As Fish Farming Becomes More Popular (KPBS San Diego) Americans are eating more fish these days, and half of it is farmed fish. The demand for fish has caused an explosion in fish farming and a search for new sources of fish feed. [News Source]

Cost of swine flu vaccine program hits $1.5B: report (CTV Toronto) It appears the plan to have every Canadian inoculated against swine flu is not coming cheap. New estimates show Canada's largest ever vaccination program could cost more than $2 billion. [News Source]

Don’t miss: ‘The Lion in Winter’ at Mad Cow Theatre (Orlando Sentinel) What: James Goldman's 1966 comic drama The Lion in Winter may have lasted only a couple of months on Broadway. But the 1968 film version — which starred Peter O'Toole as Henry II of England and Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine — was an unqualified hit, with audiences embracing the notion that the king and queen of England were just as messed up as the simple folk, but a lot funnier. At ... [News Source]

Mountain Home News: Blog: Zombieland (Mountain Home News) Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg are on the run from a world gone zombie in Zombieland. In the film, directed by Ruben Fleischer, Earth's population becomes decimated by a virus, similar to the mad cow disease that turns people into flesh-craving zombies. [News Source]

Feinstein calls for new Office of Humane Slaughter in wake of video. Too little has been done in the aftermath of last year's historic recall of beef from a Chino slaughterhouse, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said this week as she called for increased protection for animals too sick or hurt to stand. [News Source]

President Ma pledges to block risky U.S. beef. President Ma Ying-jeou Wednesday promised measures to block high-risk U.S. beef parts from hitting the Taiwan market, but the main opposition party accused him of being insincere. [News Source]

Feinstein calls for new Office of Humane Slaughter in wake of video. Too little has been done in the aftermath of last year's historic recall of beef from a Chino slaughterhouse, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said this week as she called for increased protection for animals too sick or hurt to stand. [News Source]

President Ma pledges to block risky U.S. beef. President Ma Ying-jeou Wednesday promised measures to block high-risk U.S. beef parts from hitting the Taiwan market, but the main opposition party accused him of being insincere. [News Source]

Noted prion biologist headed to UW (KIFI Idaho Falls) Associated Press - November 12, 2009 7:05 AM ET LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - The University of Wyoming soon will have a new expert on the proteins that cause chronic wasting disease. [News Source]

Pork producers feeling effects of flu (The Muskegon Chronicle) Chronicle file photo Hog farmers Keith and Alicia Kantola are struggling, in part, because some people mistakenly think they can catch the H1N1 virus, also known as “swine flu,” by eating pork. “It’s been devastating, especially to the larger hog farms,” Alicia Kantola said. [News Source]