archive for May 18th, 2007

Digest: FDA clears chicken and fish for melamine, GM rice to be planted in Kansas, lots lots more

by Ethicurean @ Friday, May 18th, 2007.

NEWSFEATURES & COMMENTARYON THE BLOGS, ETC.Treehuggers meet rabblerousers: Labor and environmental groups are working together to influence the conservation portion of the Food and Farm Bill…. Many labor union members hunt and fish, pasttimes that will be a lot more difficult if the entire Midwest is covered with corn (which, environically, would be used to make ethanol to fuel some of the gas-guzzling vehicles made by union workers). (The Hill)Locavorism on the air: Barbara Kingsolver and Steven Hopp visit the KQED-FM studio to talk about their new book on a year of local eating…. (MILive (AP))You’ll probably have something good to add to this:Not being nice with our rice: The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has approved a plan to use GM rice to produce human proteins, despite over 20,000 comments opposing the plan, compared with 29 in favor…. We’ve heard that before…We’ll probably also hear that rice yields in Geary County are too low, so the next crop needs to be in the heart of rice country to increase the yield and boost Ventria’s profit margins.

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