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Digest: Farmed fish eating melamine, too, clone wars getting uglier, fruits & veggies may get Farm Bill love

By • on May 8, 2007

NEWS Farmed fish latest to be fed contaminated feed: The FDA has revealed that farmed fish were also fed meal spiked with melamine, the industrial chemical linked to the ongoing recall of pet foods, though — surprise!— "the contamination level was probably too low to pose a danger to anyone who may have eaten the fish." In another revelation that

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Digest: Non-U.S. organic growers catch a break, Chinese catfish banned, Monsanto spanked, pro-food Farm Bill proposal

By • on May 4, 2007

NEWS A jolt of energy: Sam Fromartz reports on Chews Wise that "in a victory for organic farmers in the developing world, the USDA's National Organic Program has backed down and said that for now there will be no

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Digest: Cloning comments extended, EPA spanked, E. coli in action

By • on April 2, 2007

OK, we'll take more feedback: Under pressure from organizations that want more time to consider the issue of cloned food, the FDA is expected to extend the period for public comment by 30 days. BusinessWeek Miracles

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Cloning CEO says FDA hearing about labeling, not technology

By • on March 31, 2007

Time is running out to tell the FDA what you think of its assessment that meat and dairy from cloned animals is safe for the food supply. The comment period closes April 2. Yawn! you say. Enough already with the pleas to take action on cloning! I eat only organic — who cares what funky stuff mainstream

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Digest: Foolish fuel, no “organic” cloned progeny, toxic fertilizer

By • on March 30, 2007

Fuel for the fire: Tom Philpott flames corn-based ethanol boosterism for what it is — an agribusiness boondoggle and an economic and environmental disaster in the making. (Gristmill) Related headline: Farmers

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Digest: Riggle clones around, ag-tech check, organic pet food

By • on March 29, 2007

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Digest: Cloning profits, Whole Foods fan, GMO arms race

By • on March 27, 2007

Cloning end game: Buried in this recap of the FDA's proposed ruling on the safety of food from cloned animals are a few eyebrow raisers. One: ViaGen, the leader in animal cloning, has yet to make a profit — but its parent company is confident that will change "once the FDA approves cloned food." Two:

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Digest: Judge stops sale of GM seeds, FDA’s guidelines mocked, organic cloned kids update

By • on March 13, 2007

Batten the hatches, there's a deluge o'links today. MAJOR NEWS: Following on his decision last month that the USDA failed to take seriously concerns that genetically altered seeds could migrate to other alfalfa crops, U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer in San Francisco has ordered that the sale of

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Digest: Say no to nonworking drugs, Rumsfeld and Nutrasweet, cloning debates continue

By • on March 8, 2007

The chicken AND the egg: It looks like in poultry, antibiotic resistance may be transmitted down family lines — at least in chickens, researchers have found. Banning their use on the farm may be too little, too late. USA Today And

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Digest: Serious shellfish invasion, butter banned, Monsanto exec fined, slaughter up close

By • on March 7, 2007

Genghis Clam and his mussel men: After you've watched "The BioDaVersity Code," settle down for an hour or so and read this award-worthy, novella-length feature about how lowly bivalves are invading and conquering lakes in Michigan, Arizona, and the San Francisco

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Digest: Clone taste-off, bee prepared, the raw-milk wars

By • on March 3, 2007

Insert clone pun here: In an inspired idea for a story, the LA Times holds a dinner party serving steaks and ground meat from cloned progeny as well as conventional cattle. Although the piece starts out snappy enough — Eric Schlosser declines the invitation, saying "I'd rather eat my running shoes"

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Digest: Cloning problems, USDA goofs, Barber’d carrots

By • on February 25, 2007

Cloning still imperfect: One of the best mainstream articles we've seen that give the lie to whether cloning can perfectly reproduce champion animals... or even healthy ones. Philadelphia Inquirer "Minor record-keeping errors":

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Dean Foods, owner of Horizon organic milk, will not mess with Bessie

By • on February 22, 2007

Reporter Sam Fromartz has scored a scoop over on his blog, Chews Wise: the mega-dairy operator Dean Foods has announced it will not sell milk from cloned cows. This is pretty huge news. Dean Foods has $10.5 billion in annual sales

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Digest: Organic row brewing, USDA conference shocker, E. coli outbreak’s other victims, chicken recall

By • on February 20, 2007

Organic — neither better for you nor the environment?: In a study for the U.K. Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Manchester Business School found that some organic an/or locally-grown food may be no better for the environment than conventional produce. We plan to track down

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Digest: SciAm editors support clone labeling, pork belly future bright, chocolate food for thought

By • on February 19, 2007

Meat technology: A Scientific American editorial discussing consumer resistance to cloned meat recommends transparency and labeling. One fact it says most meat eaters don't know (and we didn't): "The cattle industry has long employed a process called budding, in which technicians manually separate the

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