PR News Wire: The 900-farmer-strong Organic Valley co-op is calling on the USDA to clarify whether cloned animals will be permitted under the organic label — and saying it will never do so, regardless of the answer.
Seattle P-I: The P-I’s editorial board weighs in on the FDA’s decision to allow cloned animals into the food supply, calling it an extension of the reckless logic of the industrial food system.
The Linkery: Ever eaten a “Fulton Valley Farms” chicken in a restaurant and wondered what the story was? Jay “Don’t Call Me a Chef” Porter has paid the co-op an enlightening visit.
Post-Crescent (WI): Sign of Americans’ latest paranoia about food? A Green Bay entrepreneur has invented an automated shopping-cart-purifying system that sprays a germ-killing solution onto grocery carts.
Seattle P-I: The typical image of cranberries is of a floating field of plants, but for the home organic garden, no flooding is needed. The American cranberry does well in acidic soil and makes for good ground cover. Tagged onto the story is a call to help Hmong flower farmers whose stocks were destroyed by the late autumn storms.
Slow news day bonus items:
Slate.com: Exploring raw eggs’ presence in boxers’ diets.
Gloom and doom coming from the Arctic:
CNet: The National Center for Atmospheric Research predicts that most Arctic ice will be gone by the middle of this century — 15 to 20 years earlier than previously expected.
International Herald Tribune: Polar bears are drowning and eating each other, as melting arctic ice destroys their habitat.
AP/CNN: What if the environment collapsed and no one saw? Canadian scientists have reconstructed the breakage of an ancient ice shelf measuring 41 square miles, now an ice island off Canada’s coast. (via BoingBoing))
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December 30th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
Yay I love the Linkery! So tasty….