Stephen Colbert had a fab segment last night on “The Colbert Report” about rBGH, the synthetic hormone that makes dairy cows produce more milk. It’s hilarious, perhaps even more so because he never mentions the name Monsanto, which manufactures the most widely used form of rBGH; Monsanto is currently protesting the use of “rBGH-free” on […]
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Digest: Tainted pet food fed to hogs, seed sanctuary, clueless consumers, clueless Deen
“Boosting” pet food: The FDA says that the melamine used in recalled pet food may have been intentionally included by Chinese manufacturers to boost the apparent protein content. And in other disturbing developments, only two pet-food manufacturers who used the contaminated rice protein have recalled their products; two others have not. Meanwhile, some of the […]
Wanted: Young American farmers for documentary
“Vote with your fork” is a wonderfully simple mantra: we should opt for sustainable, organic, local, and ethical food whenever possible. But we’re not going to be able to “chew the right thing” if there’s no one growing it for us. Demand for SOLE food is way outstripping supply, and the gap is only going […]
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• Foxes guarding the hen house, or how politics trumps qualifications at DHS
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