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Ag Talks Stalled at WTO Conference
Cancun Ministerial runs into a developing country buzz saw as G-21 countries seek deeper subsidy cuts, but are reluctant to open markets wider.

CANADA/USA: First shipments of Canadian beef enter US
Truckloads of Canadian beef have crossed the border into the US for the first time since May when a single case of mad cow disease was discovered in Alberta.

Canadian Live Cattle Bound For Mexico
Shipments of live Canadian cattle could set sail for Mexico under a new protocol being developed by government of Mexico, according to an article in Thursday's Calgary Herald newspaper.

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Scientist says irradiated beef safer than well-done beef
A molecular biologist said there are greater health risks in eating well-done beef than eating irradiated beef cooked medium or rare.

Fed court puts the kibosh on inmates 'halal' meat
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling that the state of New Jerseyis not obligated to serve two Muslim inmates meals containing meat that is halal.

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Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Peter Allgeier: As we know, Doha provided an opening, a possibility for an ambitious and wide-ranging trade negotiation, and the countries actually committed to an ambitious round with an emphasis on development, and we received at Doha, the mandates for the negotiations which have been going on for nearly two years now. Cancun, of course, is the midpoint of the Doha negotiating schedule, and our task here is to establish negotiating frameworks in each of the areas under negotiation so that our teams can go back to Geneva and complete the negotiations in the timeframe that was agreed at Doha, which is to say, by January of 2005.

Americas

Ag Talks Stalled at WTO Conference
Cancun Ministerial runs into a developing country buzz saw as G-21 countries seek deeper subsidy cuts, but are reluctant to open markets wider.

CANADA/USA: First shipments of Canadian beef enter US
Truckloads of Canadian beef have crossed the border into the US for the first time since May when a single case of mad cow disease was discovered in Alberta.

Canadian Live Cattle Bound For Mexico
Shipments of live Canadian cattle could set sail for Mexico under a new protocol being developed by government of Mexico, according to an article in Thursday's Calgary Herald newspaper.

USA

Scientist says irradiated beef safer than well-done beef
A molecular biologist said there are greater health risks in eating well-done beef than eating irradiated beef cooked medium or rare.

Fed court puts the kibosh on inmates 'halal' meat
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling that the state of New Jerseyis not obligated to serve two Muslim inmates meals containing meat that is halal.

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Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Peter Allgeier: As we know, Doha provided an opening, a possibility for an ambitious and wide-ranging trade negotiation, and the countries actually committed to an ambitious round with an emphasis on development, and we received at Doha, the mandates for the negotiations which have been going on for nearly two years now. Cancun, of course, is the midpoint of the Doha negotiating schedule, and our task here is to establish negotiating frameworks in each of the areas under negotiation so that our teams can go back to Geneva and complete the negotiations in the timeframe that was agreed at Doha, which is to say, by January of 2005.