Carbon footprint menu: Let them eat grass. Ridge Shinn’s cows are fat and happy eating grass, which makes their carbon footprint smaller than that of corn-fed cattle in feedlots, and grass-feeding has health benefits, too. [News Source]

Bill would transfer oversight of deer (The Columbus Dispatch) Among other things, Ohio Rep. Mark Okey calls himself an avid deer hunter. Some sportsmen recently have been calling him other things. [News Source]

Carbon footprint menu: Let them eat grass (Worcester Telegram & Gazette) HARDWICK - Ridge Shinn's cows are fat and happy eating grass, which makes their carbon footprint smaller than that of corn-fed cattle in feedlots, and grass-feeding has health benefits, too. [News Source]

Finding the source that caused a Coot kill off (The Biloxi Sun Herald) Nobody paid much attention to the dead Coots at Arkansas’s DeGray Lake. That is until the Eagles started dying. [News Source]

Winery scam; Martini Madness sold out and other food and wine events; Disappeared restaurants updates; nibs and sips (Sonoma Index-Tribune) Martini Madness sold out ... As some of you may have, I received an e-mail purportedly from one "Anna Maldonado" who identifies herself as "an American" and whose e-mail address appears to be an Italian hosting site called Katamail.com . She says she lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand, and that "when I was around last time I got a bottle of one of your wines from a friend as a gift and I love ... [News Source]

It’s official, we’re Slow-noma (Sonoma Index-Tribune) PIER GIORGIO OLIVETI, director of Cittaslow International, talks with reporters and Virginia Hubbell (right), director of Cittaslow Sonoma Valley, during a press reception Wednesday. [News Source]

Mad-cow proteins created in the lab (CBC.ca) Scientists have firmed up the evidence that misshapen protein are responsible for brain-wasting diseases by showing how these infectious prions are created. [News Source]

Study Offers Evidence That Spongiform Brain Diseases Are Caused By Aberrant Protein (Medical News Today) Scientists have determined how a normal protein can be converted into a prion, an infectious agent that causes fatal brain diseases in humans and mammals. The finding, in mice, is expected to advance the understanding of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs, a family of neurodegenerative diseases that include Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, kuru and fatal familial insomnia in humans ... [News Source]

Football fixtures for January 30, 31, February 3 (Isle of Wight County Press) SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 Sydenhams Wessex League, Premier Division: Bournemouth v Brading Town, Alton Town v Cowes Sports, Newport v Bemerton Heath Harlequins. [News Source]

Cameron Is Caught in Quandary Over Hostility to EU (Update1) (Bloomberg) Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- David Cameron , who polls suggest will be Britain’s next prime minister, faces the dilemma of angering his supporters, his European Union allies, or both, should he prevail in a national election this year. [News Source]