Discussion board roundup 8/8

Here is a roundup of Fresh Produce Industry Discussion topics today. By the way, I'm out of pocket traveling to Texas the rest of today and some of tomorrow to pick up my son in Mineral Wells. He has been down there for a summer baseball league and doing a sports information internship. Looking forward to seeing him but not the long stretch of I-35 that waits for me.

Check out the discussion board today:

Second case of hoof and mouth disease in Britain Big Apple posts and notes ag terror fears of this dread disease.

Australia, New Zealand call avocado truce while Mexico looms Luis posts story that is strangely similar to U.S.-Mexico avo battle

FDA food tour continues in Canada Big Apple posts a story of the FDA's food safety tour of 2007, this time in Canada

Poll questions and more What is the next Fresh Talk poll question? A thread I started has some good candidates for the next poll.