USA Today: “Cyberspeak” columnist Andrew Kantor says cloned-meat opponents are simply anti-science and dumb as a box of hair. (We’re paraphrasing. Sorta.) He fails to address why labeling meat from clones — or food that’s genetically modified — is such a bad idea, unless his stance that consumers are stupid and easily scared counts.
Cattle Network: The National Farmers Union and similar groups want the 110th Congress to implement mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) right away. Congress passed the labeling law in 2002, but some unnamed baddies have blocked its actual application.
Times (UK): In a sign that Europe is getting picky about its biofuels, a German utility has abandoned plans to convert a British power station to run on palm oil, citing concerns over damage to tropical rainforests. [Via Treehugger]
Slate: Why Whole Foods’ stock is tanking, and why it shouldn’t be.
San Francisco Chronicle: The Swiss AOC (appellation d’origine controlee) cheese Tete de Moine, which traces its origins back 800 years, by law must be made with raw milk from grass-eating, pastured cows.
Bloomberg.com: Proof the dietgeist has gone global — Germany may be facing a shortage of organic food.
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