NEWS ROUNDUP

PETA Drops Its Lawsuit Against KFC, after the fried chicken chain said it will change information provided about the treatment of chickens served in its restaurants... Boise Cascade Corporation a leader in the forest products industry, today released a new environmental statement marking significant progress in helping to protect endangered forest areas throughout the world and old growth forests in the United States. With this announcement, Boise becomes the first major U.S. forest products company to adopt a comprehensive environmental statement for its operations and the first distributor of wood and paper products to extend an environmental policy to its suppliers...The Rainforest Action Network Challenges the "Dirty Dozen"U.S. Loggers to either get out of the old growth or go out of business...The Farm Bureau has released their Quarterly Market Basket Survey, showing an increase of 42 cents from the second quarter and an increase of $1.48 from the same period last year...A U.S. Agriculture official has been ejected from Brazil after he was discovered collecting data on Asiatic soy rust.