Canadian beef on July 1 menu at Shanghai Expo Top grade Canadian beef will be on the Canada Day menu at the Shanghai World Expo, marking the first time in nearly a decade the product will be available in within that country’s borders and a sign Canada’s trade ties with China may be improving. [News Source]

Zoonotic Diseases: WSU Breaks Ground On School For Global Animal Health Building Under a sunny sky, officials from Washington State University and the Gates Foundation broke ground on a 62,000-square-foot, three-story flagship research building for a new School for Global Animal Health. The first of its kind research facility will house a state-of-the-art infectious disease research center for investigating emerging disease. From Avian influenza, to West Nile virus, nearly ... [News Source]

Guidelines for eating green Whether you’re worried about mad-cow disease in your hamburger, E. coli in your salad, the environmental impact of your diet, or your family’s ecological footprint, it just makes sense to pay attention to the purity, origin, and journey of your food before you eat it. [News Source]

S.Korea rejects US free trade deal complaints South Korea said Wednesday it would reopen talks soon with the United States on a major free trade deal, but rejected complaints it unfairly restricts US beef and auto exports. [News Source]

More Stories U.S. beef exports may jump 20 percent to $3.7 billion this year, as demand for the meat increases in Asia, said Erin Daley, an economist with the Denver-based U.S. Meat Export Federation. [News Source]

DELETE I've owned Sara Lee since 2005, and the stock has done nothing. What's wrong here? Why has nothing happened to this stock that has so many good products? Please tell me if I should buy 300 more shares to double down, [News Source]

Conversations on Quitting the Cancer Stick In advertising, we pick up a lot of habits - "creative" habits, mostly - that we occasionally are and aren't proud of, depending on our mood and who's looking. The Cannes Lions becomes a magnifier of all those habits: there, trapped in paradise for a week, people don't just drink until 5 in the morning; they often smoke as if all the weight of the world depends on it. [News Source]

List: Top dishes per state with highest fat content Health.com lists some regional dishes with the highest fat content. [News Source]

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Jeju islanders want love, not war Plans for a missile base on South Korea's Jeju island, 450 kilometers, from Shanghai have threatened to disturb a precarious balance of power in the East China Sea. But Washington's aspirations to use the base have been blocked by residents of the island. [News Source]