My pesky job caused me to miss some huge breaking news today. The USDA has apparently decided that whatever the FDA might say about meat and dairy from cloned animals being just the same as that from two parents, it’s not close enough to be labeled “organic.”
Sam Fromartz, the author of “Organic, Inc.” who blogs […]
archive for January 31st, 2007
USDA says there will be no “organic” cloned meat or dairy
Snacking between Digests: Blog bites from all over
I’m reading so much news now, trying to help make the daily Digest as comprehensive as possible, that my blog reading has greatly suffered as a result. Fortunately, readers have been sending in links to great posts on other food-related blogs. Instead of lumping them in with the Digest, I’m thinking they should have their […]
Digest: Indian cotton farmers, UglyRipe rejection, Farm Bill 201
There was such an avalanche of links today we ran out of time to read them all. They’ll have to wait ’til tomorrow.
Cotton in a trap: Andrew Leonard has been increasingly devoting his column How the World Works to understanding the pros and cons of biotechnology applications, and this one, which looks at an anthropologist’s […]
I have worms in my apartment!!
My friend Kate gets the willies from creepy-crawly things. Of course, my friend Kate is also a landscape architect. I suppose there is a possibility that she became a landscape architect specifically to battle her demons, but in the end, they still give her the heebie-jeebies. When Kate heard that I was […]
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